This image features 8 inch by 8 inch cement tiles on this tiled half-wall and fireplace. This wall leads to the bedroom and bathroom areas of this extreme open floor plan home.
The small fireplace will provide additional ambient heat during the few chilly days of the year. The entire home does have in-floor radiant heat keeping the home toasty from the floor up. In floor radiant heat keeps a house cleaner as blown heat or electric baseboard heat are not needed. Radiant floor heat tends to feel warmer to families, given the heat moves from the floor onto the feet and then up into the area – throughout the entire house. Verses heat that blows or is coming from radiators lined against the walls.