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Our house is designed to take advantage of the hillside; the second floor rooms aren't actually over the first floor rooms, they're above and behind them. It is sort of like a stairway effect. The other interesting design feature is that all of the rooms on the first floor are open to one another. And they're all in a line. The family room is the furthest east, then the kitchen. The stairs are next, followed by the dining room, and furthest west is the living room. This picture is of the dining room; the half wall on the right separates the dining room from the living room (which is also three steps lower, so the half wall is almost a full wall on the living room side).



Here are the steps leading from the living room to the dining room and a view all the way down the hall past the stairs into the kitchen area (turn right past the wall that looks like it has a cut out), and at the end is the glass door in the family room leading to the east patio.



And finally... the living room. The fireplace takes up the entire corner of the room with nice tile and leaf detailing. This week I'm going to get a chimney sweep to come out and make sure it is usable. The glass door leads to the west patio, which is great in the evenings.