With Fall just around the corner, we’ve started thinking just a little bit about the coming months indoors. While nothing is normal this year, there’s something enticing about a cozy day at home in front of the fireplace.
As we design home remodels all over the Colorado Front Range, we continue to see a tell tile sign that a house was built in the 90s or early 2000s - a combo Fireplace / TV wall with a single mantle uniting them. While these served a purpose - to house the large box televisions of the 90s - they aren’t very functional in this day and age of flat screens. Beyond that, we think a fireplace should be the focal point of a family or living room. It can be tricky to accommodate both a Fireplace and a TV on one wall, especially if the layout of the room doesn’t allow for mounting a TV over the fireplace. In this room, we removed a half wall that separated the family room from a hallway, removed the drywall cubbies on both sides of the fireplace, and separated the two. This gave room for a beautiful stone fireplace as well as a functional TV wall with lots of storage.
Here’s another look at that beautiful new fireplace wall. We love how a fresh take on the Fireplace TV wall really updates a home.
