Basement
Graham used a standard black barn door rail to mount the door. But instead of placing the rail hardware on the front of the door as it is typically done, she put it on the back so it doesn’t show. “I wanted a much cleaner, modern look,” she says. Aligning the fireplace, TV and adjacent shelves took careful work to be sure everything fit precisely. First the tiler installed the black slate tiles for the fireplace surround. Next came the box that holds the TV in the wall. Then came the mantel, followed by the display cabinet to the right of the television. The last steps were installing the door and the slats on the wall above the door. Local cabinetmaker Mike Hilchie made the door, mantel and display cabinet shelves and installed them to line up precisely. The slats have a walnut veneer and are all cut from a single large sheet. “The whole sheet was sliced and numbered so that the grain remains consistent across every slat,” Graham says. Centered on the fireplace surround is a marble engraving of an Inuit family that the homeowners purchased some 30 years ago.
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