Family Room Makeover – Darien, IL

Design objectives: -Make the fireplace wall more eye catching -Area for displaying art and entertainment items -More storage Design challenges: -Adding storage to the fireplace wall without making it feel overwhelming -Having an open-concept design and bringing in aspects of the kitchen into the living space Design solutions: -With the area on each side of the fireplace being blank, it allowed for a perfect place to add base cabinet storage and floating shelves for diplaying items -Since you could see the living area from the kitchen, to make it all blend together we used the same doorstyle and finish as the island cabinets in the kitchen. The fireplace hearth has the same quartz stone as the kitchen and the light fixture is a matching set with the linear pendant from the kitchen. -The cabinet below the TV needed space for speakers and ventilation for the cable box units that tend to get very hot. Adding speaker mesh allowed for ventilation but it was very unappealing to the eye. To spruce it up, we added a beautiful decorative metal diamond grille!