Contemporary Ranch in Virginia

This room was an additional living room when I first started redesigning the home. So that I could take advantage of the warmth of the fireplace I converted this room into dining room because the home already had two rooms earmarked for living spaces and after closing up the original small dining room and making it a bedroom/office I needed a larger more open space for dining and entertaining. This room fit that bill. I added Matterhorn Birch hardwood flooring to this room carried it through from the foyer and into the kitchen making the three rooms seem more like one. The peninsula in the kitchen helped this room feel more attached to the kitchen. The glass shelf opening on the left of the fireplace was also reworked from an existing exterior window and taken out and made into glass shelves. By not walling off that area we were able to keep the light going into the room from the adjacent window. Photo Credit: Kimberly Schneider