A Well-Appointed Room.(SUPPLEMENT: Custom Builder)

By Ann Matesi, Contributing Editor

The great room in this Rocky Mountain luxury home offers plenty of reason to linger.

With its rich, warm details, fireplace-oriented conversation area and carefully-planned traffic pattern, the great room in this custom residence near Denver serves as the home's inviting social center and its primary hub to congregate.

"The great room really serves as the linchpin for all of the movement within this home," says architect Jerry Gloss, who designed the rustic European-style beauty for empty-nester clients who have