Great Room Ideas
Furniture layout
Warm interior
Wood and tile border
Fireplace
Coffee table, plant, candles
Pillows & color combo
Transition flooring and step
Pillar color/contrast
Floating bench
Floating bench/artwork grounding
Fun area rug
Floor painting
The panels are a custom millwork piece. Its a maple veneer plywood
This fireplace and television, one on top of the other, make for a stunning lesson in scale. The perfectly sized components almost make them look like they're combined.
Large windows and sliding glass doors do wonders to open up a ranch home. Simple frames like the ones shown here would fit in nicely.
To improve the family room's indoor-outdoor flow, the designers added a Jeld-Wen sliding door; each central panel slides to the side, creating a 6-foot-wide opening. The door's understated muntins straddle the line between contemporary and traditional, and pay homage to the home's original window design.
The soffit echoes the kitchen's ceiling plane and lends some scale to the room.
Furniture layout
Here is an example of the classic tray ceiling used to achieve spaciousness in a great room. This remodeling project consisted of taking down a wall to make two rooms into one. To avoid the oppressive feel that a continuous, flat and 8'-high ceiling would create, the ceiling structure was raised a few feet. In this ranch house space taken out of the attic was an easy and cost-effective way to achieve a well-proportioned room.
Run the stone tile to the ceiling to create drama and accentuate the vertical. Charcoal gray and black stone are always great ways to de-emphasize the black box that is a trademark of gas fireplaces.
Mirror over fireplace
Draperies
Chairs
Use of mirrors
Dual seating
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