Living Room

Reinventing a young couple's home after a fire

Cabinet Company // Cowan's Cabinet Co. Photographer // Woodfield Creative

This room required changing the furniture layout dramatically. Wing chairs were relocated to frame the fireplace and the sofa was moved to the opposite wall. The piano was relocated (out of camera range in this photo), but remained in the living room. A pretty secretary was "borrowed" from another room. We swapped out oriental rugs: the blue in this photo came from the master bedroom, the large one formerly in the living room found a home in the family room, and a smaller oriental from the family room replaced the blue in the master bedroom.

Living room furnishing and remodel

The stone fireplace in the old living room was retained as sentimental, keeping this cosy room but connecting it with the open plan, through utilising the same floor throughout and using slide doors to open it up.

Living room with metal peacock metal and glass coffee table, gray sofa and slipper chairs.

Living Room separated from Dining Room by columns and built in shelving

Graham Atkins-Hughes

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We transformed the fireplace box (of a fireplace in need of repair) with a faux log stack facade that can easily be removed if and when we're ready to have a cozy fire!

N. Franzen A 750 square foot top floor apartment is transformed from a cramped and musty two bedroom into a sun-drenched aerie with a second floor home office recaptured from an old storage loft. Multiple skylights and a large picture window allow light to fill the space altering the feeling throughout the days and seasons. Views of New York Harbor, previously ignored, are now a daily event. Featured in the Fall 2016 issue of Domino, and on Refinery 29.

A crisp and consistent color scheme and composition creates an airy, unified mood throughout the diminutive 13' x 13' living room. Dark hardwood floors add warmth and contrast. We added thick moldings to architecturally enhance the house. Gauzy cotton Roman shades dress new hurricane-proof windows and coax additional natural light into the home. Because of their versatility, pairs of furniture instead of single larger pieces are used throughout the home. This helps solve the space problem because these smaller pieces can be moved and stored easily.