ᐅ Step between the living room and the kitchen-dining area

Created on: 4 Feb 2019 08:50
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Hans-Maulwurf
Hello everyone,

Our house is already fully planned, and we have an open living-dining area.
Now we’re considering that it might look nice to slightly separate the living room from the rest of the space with a step running along the entire room length.
Do any of you have experience with this? Is the slab simply poured deeper for this, or how is something like this usually done?
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Hans-Maulwurf
4 Feb 2019 13:16
You are absolutely right, and I think we should quickly drop the idea.

Thanks, have a good week everyone.
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Anoxio
4 Feb 2019 13:51
Unfortunately, we have several steps because the house actually consists of four different buildings. There is one step down from the entrance hall to the kitchen, then further along the hallway, and another two steps down to the laundry room. It’s no better on the upper floor: one step before the living room (where a partition wall is planned to be installed) and then four steps down from the adjacent room to the new bathroom and dressing room.

It’s not ideal; we would have preferred it differently, but it’s not possible. Therefore, you would be well advised to avoid having steps. They’re unnecessary and only get in the way. For visual separation, you can also use shelves or cabinets.
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Nordlys
4 Feb 2019 14:25
There are black-and-yellow adhesive tapes that also work well for visual demarcation.