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Living Room Wood Burning Fireplace Carpet Floors Design Photos and Ideas

Sunken Living Room
The fireplace that anchors the living space features native rock plucked from the site.
A brick-inlay fireplace is set into a wall of glass.
In lieu of a checkerboard effect, Kovel kept his carpet squares all vibrantly verdant. With the bamboo cabinets and countertops the whole space has a pastoral feel. “I wanted it to be like the Bradys’ backyard,” he says.
Ray sits at the central hearth on the north end of the comfortable sunken living area. From this perspective, you can see how the interior spaces flow into one another, passing one half-level up into the breakfast nook and kitchen and out from there onto the overgrown hillside. The various built-in furnishings have all been there since the house's construction.