Secrets from Model Home Designers: Great Room

Описание: Karen Dietz of Karen Dietz interiors discusses how she designed the great room of the Calais Plan at Serene HIlls for Sitterle Homes. With entertaining in mind, she used modern and rustic elements and offered up plenty of room for seating.

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Karen, why don't you tell us a little bit about the accents and design elements you used in this great room?

OK! Well, Taylor, again we are in kind of a large entertaining space. We've got really high ceilings, which lent itself to extra high cabinetry with the lit glass tops in it. The backsplash, we were able to take up to make it look even more grand. The glass backsplash, a modern element that we've got in there. We've kind of blended rustic with that modern elegance here so we have a rustic, wood-type floor. It's a tile actually, which makes it a lot more durable. But it still looks really authentic. Into the great room, we've got the cathedral ceiling that again adds to the height element throughout the space. It all feels like one large room.

That's such a fabulous feature of the home.

Right. And we added the beams at the top just to bring some texture to draw your eye up. It all kind of works together. We've got a dining space off of the kitchen as well that we brought in the wood elements combined with the stone. And the stone is repeated again on the front of the island. So to make the space feel cohesive we've taken some of the same elements throughout the entire space.

I absolutely love what you did and it's a great space for entertaining, so great job. So, what about the furniture? What was your inspiration for the furniture you used in the great room?

Well, we wanted to make sure that the space could fit a lot of people. So we do show in the dining room seating for almost 10 really if you used the bench on the end. You could probably even squeeze a few more chairs around it. So, since it is the only eating area, it's nice to be able to fit that amount of people around it. The table in the dining room has kind of an oxidized finish on the top but very clean lines with the trestle style bottom. Rustic yet elegant as well. We added some denim elements, which speaks rustic. It's actually in a gray tone and not a typical denim tone you would see.

I love those chair covers! I love them.

Yes. The bar stools at the counter, you can fit even more than we put there. So, again, for an entertaining space, it's nice to have a lot of good seating. In the great room area itself with the sofa and the chairs, we've got a chaise, we've got seating for at least 8-9 people in there as well focused around the fireplace, which is a focal point, conversation point. There's also some rustic elements in there with the coffee table. It's kind of a reclaimed, white-washed wood. We've got some leather elements in there again, which are rustic but the shape and style of a lot of the furniture is very clean-lined. We've got the mirrored tables on the ends of the sofa, which is very reflective and kind of feels a lot more modern. So that was kind of the idea with the furniture, trying to make the space an entertaining space that would fit a lot of people and be very comfortable.