Open Plan Living Room With Gold Statue Stairwell

A wall mounted TV sits on a marble feature wall with grey and gold veining, and a floating grey unit runs under it. The unit is kept low and slim so the marble stays the thing you look at, not the box below it. Floating it off the floor also makes the tile easier to mop under. The veining does the decorating here, so nothing else was added to that wall.

The main seat is a cream channel tufted sectional that curves around a round drum coffee table, so people face each other rather than a single line. The teal accent chairs are the one strong colour in an otherwise neutral scheme, added in pairs so the colour repeats instead of sitting in one corner. The rounded shapes were chosen to keep the walkway around the sofa clear in an open plan floor.

It uses a smoked glass railing with a slim metal frame rather than a solid balustrade. Solid sides would have blocked light and boxed in the hall, and the whole point here was to keep the space open under the stairs for the statue. The marble treads match the floor, so the staircase looks like part of the same hall instead of a separate structure bolted on.

Light comes in layers: a cove strip runs around the false ceiling for a soft base glow, recessed spotlights pick out the walls, and a floor lamp covers the seating for reading. Cooling is handled by a wall mounted split ac, placed high so the throw clears the seating. Two wood blade ceiling fans move air across the large open volume, which a single fan would struggle to reach.

Yes, and that is the honest trade off with a large open floor in a high gloss finish. Every footprint and speck shows against the reflection, so it wants a dry mop more often than a matte tile would. The upside is that the shine bounces light through the whole hall and makes the space feel bigger. If low maintenance matters more, a matte or lightly textured tile in the same tone is calmer to live with.

It can, but you scale the pieces down rather than copy them one to one. A full curved sectional needs floor around it to breathe, so in a compact room a smaller two plus one layout with one accent chair keeps the same feel. The marble tv wall and cove ceiling translate straight across. The staircase is the part that decides the room, so this works best where an open stairwell already exists.

Most of the money is in the stone slab and the way it is cut, not the fixing. A large format marble with heavy veining costs more than a plain one, and matching the vein across two panels so the pattern flows adds cutting and wastage. The floating unit and concealed wiring are minor next to that. Wall size and the grade of marble you pick decide the figure, so it helps to price two or three slabs before committing.