Closing an open-concept house?

[mkarch]

Originally Posted by SmalltownKSgirl

I wish the OP picture was still there, but regardless, I'd say "close that puppy, close it good!"

You'd have loved the house behind ours. 2500 sq ft all cut up into rooms each no larger than about 120 sq ft. Kind of like a prison basement where inmates are kept in isolation cells. Totally bizarre especially given that the house has a view of the Puget Sound. Even the downstairs family room was small and divided into 2 separate compartments each under 100 sq ft. I've seen underground bunkers at the old pre-ww1 military installations built more open.

[SmalltownKSgirl]

Originally Posted by mkarch

You'd have loved the house behind ours. 2500 sq ft all cut up into rooms each no larger than about 120 sq ft. Kind of like a prison basement where inmates are kept in isolation cells. Totally bizarre especially given that the house has a view of the Puget Sound. Even the downstairs family room was small and divided into 2 separate compartments each under 100 sq ft. I've seen underground bunkers at the old pre-ww1 military installations built more open.

Probably not, I do enjoy spacious rooms, that is not a feeling exclusive to open floor plan lovers.
I don't even object to rooms flowing from one to the other - L-shapes work well for that and, coincidentally, often provide obvious places to put walls (full or pony) up if you wish.

Our prior home had a large eat-in kitchen that opened onto the deck and I liked that just fine. There was a laundry/mud room between the kitchen and the garage with a door, then the good size kitchen (complete with walls on three sides and a peninsula on the fourth) and then the large dining room with a tray ceiling, a large window (we used to call them "picture" windows) and a glass paned door to the deck. There was a wall between all of that and the living room, but no door (however, I did talk often about making the opening smaller or even putting in pocket doors for complete close off, I'll admit.) The living room was comfortable size with cathedral ceilings and lots of light from 2 windows. Large bedrooms, one was cathedral ceiling, one had tray ceiling, down the hall. No cubes, no prison cells. Also no bowling alleys, warehouses, convention center lobbies.

I know, I know, we should never have sold it.

[WildCard~]

Originally Posted by nightcrawler

[/u][/b][/color] This is a HGTV thing that they are trying to brainwash us.


a good example of this kind of thinking is me.

When I got my apartment that I am living in now, I re-did the kitchen in my style but a friend of mine who is a real estate broker said , oh don't get that, because if you sell not everyone will want that color for a sink and counter tops. So I listened to him and didn't get the color counter tops and sink I really wanted.


That was 23 years ago. 23 years !!!


So my advice is to any homeowner, Get what ever the freak you want and enjoy it, and don't worry about what a potential buyer somewhere down the line will want.....if they want it that bad, they can buy it themselves.

or if not, who cares, my home, I live there, and i am not moving any time soon.

PREACH IT! LOl So agree, your home enjoy!