What do you do with dead space?

(Knowing When to) Open it Up

What do you with a space, like the one pictured above, that feels claustrophobic and cut off from the rest of the home?

Open it up.

So, what was once a seldom-used Den -- technically, a legal Bedroom -- is now annexed to the sweeping, new Living Room.

In place of the confining walls are handsome columns that double as structural support.

The makeover was part of a top-to-bottom, 5 month transformation at 2820 Huntington, in St. Louis Park's Fern Hill neighborhood (see, "What's Selling . . . Fern Hill").