Don't like Open Floor Plans. Anyone else like me? (bathroom, recliners, chair)
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I like both. Depends on the house. My current house is open concept for the living room, kitchen and dining area and I love it. If these rooms were closed off, it would be tiny and claustrophobic. I live alone though, so I don't need separate space to curtail noise or activity.
I hate open concept homes. I like true foyers, hallways, and square rooms with doors and lots of large windows.
I personally don't understand open concept living. It's not more convenient to have a pass through bar to the living room. You still have walk into the kitchen to get whatever you need. And if the barstools are in the living space, it ends up looking crowded.
I have also never understood having a wet bar in the living room, especially when the kitchen is equidistant to the bar.
I like tall ceilings, nine or ten feet, but I hate vaulted ceilings.
My personal tastes have made home shopping difficult.
I've posted in this thread before about how I don't like my current extremely open floor plan, but there is one thing that I do like. When I'm in my kitchen (in the center of the living space with only a back wall, and visible from the front door), I have a perfect view of a TV in each of the two gathering rooms. It's nice to not have to find a space for a kitchen TV.
I've posted in this thread before about how I don't like my current extremely open floor plan, but there is one thing that I do like. When I'm in my kitchen (in the center of the living space with only a back wall, and visible from the front door), I have a perfect view of a TV in each of the two gathering rooms. It's nice to not have to find a space for a kitchen TV.
True enough, LOL, and for us, our open concept house provides a great view of our magnificent outdoors, the flora and fauna, from all corners of this common living space. The bedrooms, bathrooms and utility room are separate, but the bedrooms also have large windows looking out over our piece of paradise.
Magazine beautiful, and incredible for someone other than me.
Thank you
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Originally Posted by nightcrawler
I don't hate it at all, it just isn't my taste, that's all.
but, looking at the pictures, please correct me if I'm wrong, but the upper cabinets look more than the standard 17-18 inches from the counter top???
I'm only 5'7" so that's why I noticed......
I understand! We are both 5'8" though and it is not really an issue. There is so much storage in this kitchen that we wouldn't be able to fill them all unless we bought more things just to fill them. But there are only 2 of us and we keep a pretty minimal set of dinnerware etc.
Having no wall space is a disadvantage if you enjoy collecting art.
THIS is exactly what I realized after we bought our former "open concept" house. We are avid collectors of original artwork, and between the open concept and the many huge windows, we had very little wall space.
There were things I liked about it (for starters I love a lot of natural light and goodness, we had that) but I hated this aspect of it.
When we moved, we bought a house with a lot of tall windows and archways between rooms, but it has ROOMS. With walls. Tall ceilings. Best of both worlds - plenty of natural light but plenty of places to hang art.
I hate open concept homes. I like true foyers, hallways, and square rooms with doors and lots of large windows.
I personally don't understand open concept living. It's not more convenient to have a pass through bar to the living room. You still have walk into the kitchen to get whatever you need. And if the barstools are in the living space, it ends up looking crowded.
I have also never understood having a wet bar in the living room, especially when the kitchen is equidistant to the bar.
I like tall ceilings, nine or ten feet, but I hate vaulted ceilings.
My personal tastes have made home shopping difficult.
I probably shouldn't mention the bar in my master bedroom...
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it just isn't my taste, that's all.
