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Living Room Bench Wood Burning Fireplace Shelves Storage Design Photos and Ideas

With the bed and desk tucked away, there’s more room to move about in the shipping container.
The wood stove heats the cabin efficiently in winter. The seating nook beside it doubles as wood storage.
The design team sprayed the metal structure’s inner walls with thermal insulation. Then they framed the interior with studs and clad it in spruce plywood.
Floor-to-ceiling shelves and storage bookend a cabinet that conceals the television.
The pair replaced the cluttered firewood storage with a floating hearth that can double as a seat and display for art.
Raj and Watts extended the fireplace column to the ceiling to highlight the room’s expansive scale, and had it coated in concrete plaster. It was important to retain the wood-burning fireplace—a rarity in the city—but “we wanted to re-clad it in a material that also spoke to the industrial past of the building,” says Raj.
Contemporary materials like concrete and steel are a wonderful contrast to the ancient stone walls.