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Good morning. Were your ears burning last night? My son's girlfriend is having a house built that is an open plan. Sounds much like your friends house. She mentioned that she'll have a porch all around her house. So I thought....

think about a big porch. But it will make the inside darker so you'll need to add light.

My suggestion would be skylights in the kitchen and family room.(don't let anyone tell you not to because they leak..BOLOGNA...a good roofer knows the exact protection to place on your roof before the final step and how to really secure and protect your skylights from leaking. We have two large ones in our family room and love them!

Do you have any salvage shops near you..antique shops..churches with old stain glass in their basement or stain glass restoring shops there? Purchase a long framed glass art or a few small and hang them dividing your dining room and family room. Make sure you place your NEW ceiling lights(dining room and family room..near the stain glass art. So don't take away from the art so put flat lighting near on the ceiling on both sides.

Down from the stain glass work have glass shelving(wood if your husband insist) place glass wear of the top and then (books..vinyl records...your choice of memorables)

The unit could be on wheels as to be able to move it.

Off your kitchen make it a glassed in porch you could use as a green house. It would really bring more lights into your kitchen and give a beautiful place for herbs and flowers. Sitting out there would be beautiful.

A big wraparound porch sounds lovely.

If she’s planning on kids or anything, she may want to rethink the open floor plan. At least not to have the bedrooms right off of the living room like this house has. That’s the reason we haven’t bought it yet, and we don’t even have kids! But there would be no Rooms To Go to for privacy or quiet. So if we buy this house we have to put an addition on it that would include a kitchen and a living room. I hate having the kitchen right in the living room with no separation. I guess I’m a 70s girl type of house person, I like all my rooms separate.

Good to know about the sky lights! That might be a lovely thing to put in the addition we do. And clever idea to hang something separating the rooms. I still can’t visualize exactly what you mean. The problem with this house is it has an open floor plan because the rooms are also small. Putting anything between them would just emphasize the tininess. Is that a word? I think the only fix is to put in an addition to separate the rooms and make one of them bigger. We still can’t figure out where the 2000 square feet is. It sure doesn’t seem that big. But we measured the basement and it is. You would think an open floor plan would make it seem bigger than it is instead of smaller

A glassed-in porch for Greenhouse, yes yes yes! I’ve always wanted a greenhouse, I have a little baby one I put up each spring but it would be nice to have it permanent. And yes wouldn’t it be lovely to sit out there and read? I’ve also heard that greenhouses do a great job of keeping the house warm in the winter.