My wife wants to knock down the kitchen wall like all of our neighbors have done during their remodels.
1) The kitchen will need to stay clean.
2) We’ll need to get rid of the cabinet up against the kitchen wall facing the LR.
3) We’ll need to get rid of all the pictures on the wall.
4) Would need to upgrade everything in the kitchen if it is going to be all out in the open.
I’ll have to bookmark this article. If I can put it off long enough, the separate kitchen will be back in style!
I used to work for a contractor and he built the ‘open’ style homes. All of them had counter space in the ‘kitchen’ where everyone ate. These homes were extremely expensive
I was always puzzled by that. I asked a customer once: ‘When it’s Christmas or Thanksgiving, where do your guests sit and eat?’
I didn’t get a satisfactory answer.
Oh, the horror! LOL!
Just show her this one.
It’s not the open floor plan of today. It’s just perhaps the greatest house ever built by man.
The open plan works when you have kids and you have space for a formal, private living space. Else, it’s just like you say. You sacrifice lots.
The key is to make the house suit your lifestyle and not the 30 something’s with a “keep up with the Jones’s “ lifestyle.