Brothers dave and rich renovate houses.
Diy raise sunken living room.
Over the last few weeks we ve been working hard to get our sunken den.
Today i m talking all about how we raised our sunken living room.
Knowing that you can correct that dip anytime makes you want to try a sunken living room.
The room is 12 x 18 with walls on 3 sides.
I ve been so excited to talk to you guys about our modern kitchen and dining room makeover plans.
A recent question on hometalk about filling in a sunken living room floor prompted me to write up my own experience with this.
In the next six weeks i m going to be making over our kitchen and dining room.
I was wondering if it s possible to construct a new raised floor in that space.
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.
Filling in a sunken floor was definitely not a do it yourself project at my house.
We have a sunken living room that does not work with the flow of the house.
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.
With sunken living rooms you can either sink a circular or rectangular area based on your space and design needs.
The fact that you can raise a sunken room without breaking the bank is reassuring.
The current floor is concrete slab sunken 8 below the rest of the house but at ground level.
Sunken living rooms were a popular feature in homes of earlier decades.
Learn how to frame in a flush floor and open up the living room.
In this episode of extreme house flipping their gopro camera captures them raising a sunken living room in time laps.