Removing ugly beam in living room
Bob z
5 years ago
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Is it possible to remove the ugly beam in the middle of this room? What about putting drywall around it and painting it the same color as the room? The room is 32 feet long
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Help! Ugly load-bearing beam driving me nuts.
Comments (16)I would definitely snap a better photo of the beam in question and the space as a whole when you can. Everyone here has such great ideas as long as you give them the fodder. And now that I've compared us all to cows, I will offer suggestions based on the little I can see. You could drywall around it as mentioned above. You could paint it the same as the ceiling. You could do a wood veneer in a stain of your choice to keep a more rustic look. You know it has to stay, so design around it and then when you get your pretty new kitchen installed, it might not even bother you anymore. It might help to post what look you're going for in your new kitchen... Inspiration photos or materials etc. Also, you said it's getting in the way of your reno... Do you just mean aesthetically or are you changing the layout of the kitchen? Also, I used to live in Kalispell too!...See Moredated ugly cluttered full of pictures living room
Comments (10)Lindsey's idea for the original photographs is the perfect solution. You could put all your favorite photographs in matching coffee table sized albums. If you coffee table doesn't have a bottom shelf for the albums, you'd have an excuse to shop for a new coffee table does. I like this one with a bottom shelf and drawers: [https://www.houzz.com/products/warm-shaker-coffee-table-prvw-vr~44790763?m_refid=PLA_HZ_44790763[(https://www.houzz.com/products/warm-shaker-coffee-table-prvw-vr~44790763?m_refid=PLA_HZ_44790763&device=c&nw=g&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgsqXwo3R2gIVQT0MCh22rwjKEAYYAyABEgI25fD_BwE) If someone in your household really feels the photographs need to be displayed, you might consider scanning them onto a card for display with a Kodak EasyShare or similar electronic photo album....See MoreUgly Stairs between family room and living room
Comments (16)Here is a thought: This idea moves the step to the Living Room to the left, which eases traffic flow from the adjacent kitchen doorway. Keep the wide base step, but extend it beyond the edge of this step from the Living Room. Take out the angled corner of the base step - it looks odd - and extend the base step to the outer wall if you can. You can then add a step to the Master Bedroom that is wider than the wall opening, so that this step does not look narrow/small. All of this gets the wider base to look more purposeful, acting as an extra seating bench/display shelf. You should add a partial-height wood wall extension/cabinet unit up to the right of the Living Room step, to break the "tunnel" look of the long narrow Living Room from the Family Room. You could also extend the vertical material of this unit as a tall wall base going around the Family Room, which could help to visually tie in this step condition into the rest of the Family Room, so that the steps looks purposeful rather than an after-thought....See MoreHow to update ugly bathroom to match my Living Room?
Comments (30)If you really are keeping the floor tile, LOVE the vanity in the first batch of examples with the very deep marble countertop and grayish vanity. I would have the vanity the blue of the floor tile though. The reason I’m loving the thick marble is it plays off your coffee table. Anyways, honestly, the floor looks really old and 80s to me in a bad way. Everything else is beautiful though...how old is your home?...See More
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