In the next six weeks i m going to be making over our kitchen and dining room.
Diy raise sunken living room.
I was wondering if it s possible to construct a new raised floor in that space.
It was part of a pretty much entire house remodel we did in 2012.
Today i m talking all about how we raised our sunken 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.
Sunken living rooms are not written in stone.
With sunken living rooms you can either sink a circular or rectangular area based on your space and design needs.
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 room is 12 x 18 with walls on 3 sides.
Our new house has a sunken living room that has to go.
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.
We have a sunken living room that does not work with the flow of the house.
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.
Brothers dave and rich renovate houses.
Filling in a sunken floor was definitely not a do it yourself project at my house.
The fact that you can raise a sunken room without breaking the bank is reassuring.
In this episode of extreme house flipping their gopro camera captures them raising a sunken living room in time laps.
Before i could begin this renovation we had to tackle the sunken living room.
Learn how to frame in a flush floor and open up the living room.