Posted on 05/14/2019 4:10:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Jesus was not born in a stable. That's not to say the birth wasn't attended by farm animals the Gospel of Luke tells us twice the baby's first bed was a feeding trough but rather that the animals lived in the house.
Peasant homes in first century Bethlehem were designed with what we would today call an "open concept." They typically had one large room with the nicer living space in an open loft or on the roof, while the main floor area was where the family's animals would be brought for safekeeping at night. The guestroom that was unavailable to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph was that loft or roof space, and the big room where they stayed instead served as the kitchen, living room, dining room, and farmyard all at once. The defining feature of Jesus' birthplace was not isolation, as we often tend to think, but an utter lack of privacy: Mary delivered in a crowded farmhouse with few, if any, interior walls.
And that was perfectly normal, if not exactly desirable, for our modern fixation on the open floor plan is a historical anomaly. It flies in the face of literally millennia of consensus that more rooms is better, and it is a dreadful mistake. The last 70 years of open concept construction and remodeling has left us with dysfunctional houses, homes that are less conducive to hospitality, less energy efficient, and more given to mess.
The shift from open concepts demanded by necessity to widespread construction of separate rooms to open concepts demanded by style is relatively recent. Before the 17th century, especially for the poor, "rooms did not have specialized functions," explains architect Witold Rybczynski in Home: A Short History of an Idea.
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Haha, the open design concept still leaves separate rooms such as bedrooms for privacy. If you do not wish to interact with your own family, hey, that’s your own private issue. But, “generally” speaking... we’re not talking about Grandma’s feather bed here.
Everyone enjoys sitting around a campfire. In the home, the TV is the campfire. The point of an open concept design is to afford more the opportunity to gather as a family and communicate. With any normal gathering, the crowd always tends to gather in the kitchen because one or two individuals (hostess and/or host) are “stuck” there preparing meals. In an open design, everyone can enjoy the company and the “campfire”.
Separate room design promotes anti-social hermits and ogres, but spin it however you feel fit. :-)
Open = feminine; closed = masculine.
Was. Nowadays people watch TV on their laptop or tablets. I rarely actually watch TV anymore on my TV.
What a great post, thinking about your daughter playing made my heart smile too.
https://christinprophecy.org/sermons/norten-on-the-feasts-of-Israel
Beginning at minute 14:08 is the reality of the Christmas birth and the Lamb.
“...the 30 somethings with a keep up with the Joness lifestyle.”
I think that is much of it with my wife. She’s happy the way it is, until she visits somebody with a new or remodeled home. Of course then, it isn’t just the open floor plan - EVERYTHING is new and updated. I’m guessing that has a lot to do with it.
And of course that’s what it would end up like if we ever did it. “Well, as long as we are putting in hardware floors and have to move everything, we should probably replace our 27 year-old fridge.....
All the new fridges are 6-inches wider, we’ll have to remove that cabinet.....
We call it “Give a mouse a cookie” after the children’s book!
In IT we call it, “Scope Creep”
Cooked For them. My bad. They tasted delicious lol.
We have a kitchen family room combo. So when we want to be together we stay there
That’s an addition to the original home. I like the separate rooms. I don’t want to watch all my husband’s sports shows nor does he want to watch mine
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