Is every Single Family Home in Phoenix Metro Open Concept? (townhome, living)

[YR8]

I've decided that townhome living is no longer for me. I'd like to move into a single family home. I'm noticing that every home seems to have one large great room with the kitchen, living, dining all together. Are there no homes with formal dining or an enclosed kitchen? I'm not a huge fan of open concept. I've even looked at older homes and a lot of the ranches just have a kitchen tucked in the corner of a large room with bedrooms off the hallway. I know that there are a few bungalows in central Phoenix, but a lot seem to only have 1 bathroom. Are there any colonials or something similar? I figured homes built between 1950 and 1970 would have had more defined spaces, but I guess I was wrong...

[observer53]

Even homes built in the 1980s have more separation. My 1986 home has a separate living room and dining room, kitchen with dining area, and family room. Keep looking.

[bgray9]

Our experience when we were house hunting a few years ago was just the opposite. We were looking for an open floor plan and probably looked at over 50 houses and only a handful had even a somewhat open floor plan. We were puzzled by the lack of open floor plans. Maybe it depends on where one is looking? Also, we weren't looking at new builds, so maybe that explains our differing experiences somewhat?

[asufan]

It started in the 90's, even earlier in Vegas. The rest of the country followed suit not long after

[cactusland]

Phoenix seems to have missed the separated dining room mostly because a large part of entertaining is more likely to happen outside. Outside grills, patios, and dining furniture are far more popular than a formal dining room.
I still see formal dining rooms in houses that were built in the 1940s. Older bungalows are more likely to have a formal dining room...if the owner or the flipper didn't tear it out or open up the space as often diving walls were not structural.

[DetroitN8V]

I have a formal dining room that I use maybe twice a year. I could easily do without it so I get why people are doing away with them.

[sh9730]

My place has a decent sized "great room" with vaulted ceiling, indented "entertainment cove" or whatever it is called, dining "area" and kitchen without separation - BUT, it does have a wall behind the kitchen that separates off to a separate living room and what is meant to be a more formal dining area that lead to the front door, but no wall between them either. So to get TO the great room/kitchen you must walk through the main living room area.

Clearly we use the great room much more than the more "formal" room as it leads to the patio for grilling etc. as cactusland points out. Mine was built in 2007.

Some of it of course depends on size of both house and lot. Mine is just under 2K square feet single story so......

[smoochaz]

Most people look for open concept and so many walls have been knocked down on older homes to accommodate this ... you (your realtor) have to keep looking -

[SnowWhiteQueen]

I don't like the open concept either with the kitchen and living room being together. I hate having family or company come over only to watch my every move in the kitchen. They should be separate. I also noticed a lot of master bathrooms don't have a door on them just a cut out entry way so you have no privacy when taking a shower or going to the bathroom. Ugh!

[Prickly Pear]

I have a 70s ranch home and it is divided sort of weird. Kitchen and a living area are one room, there is like a formal dining area "cove" so to speak that is the same room as the family room which is a step or two lower and separated by the stairs and a railing. In a way it's open but not entirely.