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re: Explain the allure of "open concept"
Posted on 4/21/20 at 4:58 pm to scott8811
Posted on 4/21/20 at 4:58 pm to scott8811
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Why stop there.... why does a house need walls at all...make it one giant beach hut!!! Think of all the natural light and sight lines!!
Wouldn't work in Louisiana because of all the bugs.
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Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:00 pm to Eightballjacket
maybe...but it's great to be able to keep an eye on your family from every room in the house apparently... imagine how amazing it would be to keep an eye on them when not even inside the house!!!
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:01 pm to scott8811
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but my wife is one who insists on scrubbing the crap out of everything before it goes in
Sounds like you replaced the wrong dishwasher.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:01 pm to scott8811
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Probably as well as shag carpet and avocado colored appliances
Or multi-color glass block kitchen backsplashes
This post was edited on 4/21/20 at 5:02 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:02 pm to noonan
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Sounds like you replaced the wrong dishwasher.
Turns out didn't have to replace either. Problem was remedied by not having a sink in the fricking living room.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:06 pm to TH03
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Mine is open for living, dining, and kitchen, then a hallway off of which are master, half bath, and laundry, then the other bedrooms are upstairs. Perfect balance of both.
Basically this too for me. And it's perfect.
Open Kitchen, Living Room, Dining Room. Lounge/Reading Room which is half open to the kitchen. Then a basement family room as well.
Great mix to get peace and quiet OR to socialize. We had 12 people in the house for 2 weeks last Christmas, and yeah it was hectic, but the people who did want alone time could find it somewhere while everyone else was socializing.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:14 pm to scott8811
Need the best of both worlds... open floor plan with a den or media room tucked away somewhere
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:29 pm to NWarty
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Or multi-color glass block kitchen backsplashes
Or carpet with everything clothed in pink and teal with a picture of a blue Heron on the wall.
We have open kitchen, living, and dining. Closed office and hallway back to master suite. Kids each have a room upstairs plus a common area upstairs.
It’s great because we can keep on eye on them when they are young. When they get to be teenagers and hate us, they’ll have their own sectioned off space.
This post was edited on 4/21/20 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:31 pm to scott8811
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Explain the allure of "open concept"
Because living in a cubicle sucks...
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:34 pm to Big Block Stingray
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Because living in a cubicle sucks...
+1
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:38 pm to scott8811
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and if you have enough friends to have more than one group conversation going on or hosted a football watch party, you get the allure of separate spaces
I've had both, I prefer open spaces. There are always areas that allow for some isolation if it's done right.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:44 pm to scott8811
We took the wall out between our living and kitchen last summer and added 60-70 square feet of usable space to our house. The wall housed a double sided fireplace and a huge, useless built in.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:46 pm to scott8811
Live somewhere where 1,000 sq/ft is a luxury. Then you’ll get why an open concept is nice.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 5:57 pm to scott8811
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maybe...but it's great to be able to keep an eye on your family from every room in the house apparently... imagine how amazing it would be to keep an eye on them when not even inside the house!!!
This is a strange melt.
Although we took out three load bearing walls and raised the ceiling 4 feet. Phase 2 of our expansion will have a “play room” with a good 15 feet of bifold doors to open the space up to the outside patio.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:02 pm to scott8811
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Explain the allure of "open concept"
It’s for entertainment purposes and cooking.
I cook a lot and the ability to cook while watching my kids and interacting with my family is nice.
I also host most holidays at my house for both families and have a lot of dinner parties.
Having an open kitchen and dining room and living room allows for great entertaining. I can cook and serve food and get wine and pour drinks without ever leaving the party.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:04 pm to scott8811
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. so it was a solid 15 minutes of rushing water every day.
You can’t handle 15 minutes of noise while your wife cleans the kitchen because you’re too lazy to help?
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:07 pm to scott8811
Get yourself one of these, or something similar.
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This post was edited on 4/21/20 at 6:08 pm
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:16 pm to scott8811
If you weren't poor as frick and was able to afford the open concept in your house, then you would love it too.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 6:28 pm to The Spleen
We ended up getting a new 70” for the living room, then taking the 55” from the living room and brought that to the bedroom.
No eye strain, and still have room to put the bowling alley in between the bed and the TV.
No eye strain, and still have room to put the bowling alley in between the bed and the TV.
Posted on 4/21/20 at 8:04 pm to Buryl
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Been bitching about how ever done the "open floor" concept is. Its become an excuse for shitty, lazy home designs.
The absolute WORST example of this are the new-ish homes that try to maintain the traditional foyer, dining, living room layout, but with no walls. Not willing to pay the big bucks for the structure needed to truly be open, so they end up dropping a column where two walls would have traditionally met. IT. IS. AWFUL.
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