Phinney residence dining room

Create an architectural focal point“With this room divider we were looking to separate the dining room from the living room with an architectural element, while preserving the openness between the two spaces,” says Kimberly Goforth of Goforth Gill Architects.Read more:How to Partition Spaces Without Using Walls19 Subtle, Sleek and Stylish Ways to Partition SpacesTell us:Which one did you find the most clever design? Tell us why.

Alt idea: Fat post and half-height shelves btwn hall and den

!!!!! Picture #1 Column example with book shelves. Looks nice and scale looks good. Notice columns don't go through. In our case shelves would be between columns since columns are structural.

great focal point connecting from one room to the next. We can do this from the kitchen to the living room

option chnge to walls to dining room remove walls to open up