Ideas for disguising a concrete beam gallery

Hello everyone,

I have a bit of an awkward situation in our gallery. We installed a gallery in the attic. So, a prefabricated wooden part was built in between two reinforced concrete beams. Unfortunately, the reinforced concrete beam is higher than the floor structure. On the prefabricated wooden floor there is a carpet as flooring, and on the reinforced concrete beam a steel profile was mounted as a railing, which holds the glass panes. Now I would like to furnish the gallery, and for that I need to somehow cover this annoying transition (see picture).

I would probably build some kind of substructure to be able to put something on it. Unfortunately, I can’t think of how to nicely cover the edge, as I don’t know how to do it. Otherwise, I would simply lay parquet flooring on the substructure. Or maybe fill it with screed and then use tiles as a covering?

Do you have any ideas?

Many thanks and best regards!

Or maybe fill with screed and then a tile covering?

That indeed does not look very nice. I assume that we would make a feature out of it and design a mosaic for the edge and cover the part that is walked on with stone or wood. Will the carpet remain?

Actually, yes. It should actually just be a TV sofa and TV stand.

For a TV room, it is advisable to decorate the strip like a film strip. The area where you will not walk gets two slats as a frame and a correspondingly printed glass cover - possibly even backlit. Are you into motorsport? Carrera track and race cars - it's even simple to install. Star Wars fan? Make an exhibition track for models on the strip. … You then only need to make the area where you walk stable - a carpet step would be the simplest, a wooden step is also easy. Make a feature out of it for the TV room. - that's my thought on it.

Wood slats around the corner including the metal from the railing, whatever you like on top. Personally, I would put wood on it. Then the edge (would also look quite good with mosaic and LED strips) is gone and - what I find much more important - the visually catastrophic screwing.