In the next six weeks i m going to be making over our kitchen and dining room.
Diy raise sunken living room.
Sunken living rooms were a popular feature in homes of earlier decades.
I ve been so excited to talk to you guys about our modern kitchen and dining room makeover plans.
Over the last few weeks we ve been working hard to get our sunken den.
We have a sunken living room that does not work with the flow of the house.
Before i could begin this renovation we had to tackle the sunken living room.
Our new house has a sunken living room that has to go.
In 2011 this design is not common and people who have older homes with uneven floor heights often choose to raise the floor height to match the surrounding rooms.
The current floor is concrete slab sunken 8 below the rest of the house but at ground level.
Sunken living rooms are not written in stone.
Today i m talking all about how we raised our sunken living room.
The room is 12 x 18 with walls on 3 sides.
Filling in a sunken floor was definitely not a do it yourself project at my house.
It was part of a pretty much entire house remodel we did in 2012.
With sunken living rooms you can either sink a circular or rectangular area based on your space and design needs.
Knowing that you can correct that dip anytime makes you want to try a sunken living room.
Having a sunken living room brought up to floor level can range in price from 5 000 to 25 000 or more depending on the size of the area and the remodeling method.
Learn how to frame in a flush floor and open up the living room.
A recent question on hometalk about filling in a sunken living room floor prompted me to write up my own experience with this.
Brothers dave and rich renovate houses.