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They have been around for decades so I don't see them going anywhere.

I'd happily live in one.

I did try that, circa 2004, in Malaysia of all places. Within a couple weeks, everything was covered in dust and grease.

Well I do not agree to this one either ... My mother kitchen is white and has always been. It looks clean without a lot of effort (and we cook min. once a day, often twice) and the very big positive side is that it is 30 year old and does not look that outfashion.

I never understood people buying hutches/cabinets for an ungodly amount of money that look like they were pulled out of a barn.

I hate grey walls, it makes me feel like I'm in an asylum.

They look fine in any kind of ranch setting, but do not belong in the suburbs.

And you have to waste so much energy for heating those high rooms. I'm quite sure energy consuming stuff will soon be outdated.

I really cringe at those. Just like "clever" t-shirts.

"Floor-to-wall-tiles look like you're in a morgue", my wife says.

Painting wood furniture should be a crime.

If you want marble put it in a bathroom and use a more durable stone in the kitchen

Take that back about the molten lava cake!!

I never thought about it like that, but you're right. Easy to get stuck up there with a kitchen fire.

Not every person can have a Victorian house.

Some people nowadays like to dismantle the upper kitchen cabinets and replace them with a simple shelf + artwork / paintings. It's playful, but if I did that I would end up with literally zero storage. Plus at 6'5'', I hate to bend down all the time.

Open layouts are also harder to heat, which means both higher heating bills and worse for the environment. Smaller rooms are more economical and environmentally friendly.

I disagree. It depends on the floor plan, furniture placement etc. I know a few people with open layouts and only one of them have an issue with echoing but their house is decorated sparesly.

Houses burn faster with open floor plans. More fuel and oxygen combined with the lack of doors to seal off fire equals a more dangerous environment.

I really dislike open kitchen / living rooms. Especially in the Uk where most kitchens have the dishwasher / washing machine / tumble dryers etc in them. They are so loud!

There's that subway tile again

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Yep. Kids have to go into their bedrooms for privacy. I figure I'll save a ton of money when I do renovations because I hate open floorplans.

And, If you're upstairs in the loft/ master bedroom with a lovely open balcony down to the living area, you can't goto bed early or have a quickie when there are guests. Those noises travel easily.

I read somewhere that these are not well designed if there is a fire. Walls slow the spread and can even help contain a fire. Open layouts allow fires to spread quickly.

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"Open concept" is probably going to be "so 2020" in a decade. It reminds me of the efficiency apartment I had once in college. I hate having my table and chairs in the middle of everything where you have to edge around it or push the chairs in every time you want to get from the kitchen to the living room. These people on TV are all "oh I need to be able to see my kids playing", which will only last until they get old enough that they would rather be in their rooms. Then you just have a big space where everyone has to listen to whatever one person wants to watch on TV, for the 5 total times that you actually do serious entertaining each year.

I've lived in houses with half open layout there was a counter so not completely open and the house I live in now is closed off it built in the 50s I personally prefer open layouts

I happen to live in an open concept home, but all of the building materials are high efficiency. We literally use a mini-split system to heat and cool--guess why? It's already energy efficient. So....false. If your build is like all American cookie cutter houses, no matter what they say--it isn't energy efficient. It is way less efficient to have many rooms all requiring heat and cooling.

I have an open floor plan and laminate hardwood floors. There is no echo.

It's easy to stop the echo with a couple of decorative acoustic pieces.

this is what I was talking about in another post, I hate spaces like this, it feels like just a warehouse

I love my open layout kitchen dining room living room area. It's easy to host more people for gatherings and have everyone together, easier for us to watch our kids in the living room while we cook or do dishes, kids have space to run around. There are a few downsides like how it's a bigger space to light at night and it does get loud but I still prefer it.

I personally would love to have this house...

When you have guess staying over or other people living there Everyone knows your having sex, it echoes, echoes, echoes!

I have Asperger's. I like walls.

You can hear everything anyone says even three rooms away. Seems nice and lofty, but for a family, the noise carries everywhere.

Not everyone prefers to live in a maze

This really depends on the size of the house. We have an open living/dining/kitchen, but our house is not very big, so it's not a big echoing space. I don't like how cooking smells permeate the area, but that's what an exhaust fan is for - I just need to constantly remind my husband to turn it on every time he cooks something!

I love to nestle in a smaller room, where I can walk a maximum of 2m between each two pieces of furniture. I like my spaces cosy, maximalist and lived-in, not feel like I'm in a modern art museum.

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Oh, I like them. Maybe not the wood accents but the colors are great

Its good to recycle.

This is a personal preference. I've always liked brass details.

This is true of any kind of decor. If you use it smartly, it will age well. If you don't, it will look tacky.

Yes, in my hometown I noticed people knocking down elegant prewar villas and replacing them with bunker/diner-type windowless white boxes. It looks awful.

I think barn doors look great.

I suspect in Alaska it is there for a reason. Hauling bricks up there is going to be difficult and wood will rot.