General living areas like family rooms and living rooms are the least common areas to use stone. Instead, you are likely to find it in sunrooms, patios, and greenhouses. Any place subject to lots of traffic, or dirt and moisture, are candidates for this extemely durable and easy-to-clean material.
As an example of the use of stone in a Living Area, we've included this Design Stone Granite Fireplace and Hearth. A pair of fuzzy slippers, your favorite fleece, and a good book to go with this fireplace will almost make you wish for winter!
Here's an image of a beautiful marble firplace we recently installed. To really get the impact of the quality of this work, just take a look at the following detail image.
A quality finish carpenter would be proud to point to this mitre joint as an example of their work. Now think of accomplishing it it in stone!
This gray marble gas fireplace is sitting next to a marble table we also created. Stone stores heat from the fireplace and brings additional warmth to the room.
