6:47 explains it all. this is why i prefer a closed kitchen. also, i'm easily distracted, so please keep all guests away from me while i'm trying to prepare a delicious meal for them!
Agree, we moved to a house with an open kitchen, we love the rest of the house and the property BUT hate the open kitchen...my husband and I are going to build a stand alone pantry to block the view of the kitchen from the living room.
Good video but you missed the number one reason for having a closed concept. I love being able to close the door to the kitchen and other rooms and only heat or cool the rooms we are in. We save so much money by being able to close off rooms it is amazing. As someone who has always had open concept this is by far the best reason to have a closed concept home.
Renovating an older home and chose to keep the existing separate kitchen design instead of having a load bearing wall removed. I included an eat-in breakfast nook as well as peninsula seating in the design so that I can still watch kids while they do homework. For introverts, its nice to have a separate space to think and work. I personally find it somewhat challenging to engage in conversation and cook at the same time while entertaining. I would much rather have most of the meal cooked before guests arrive, and be able to serve the food hot and close the door to the mess.
Love a separate kitchen and dinning room. Have large windows and great ventilation. Just need my space to cook and clean and cooking can be a labor of love. I absolutely believe a separate dining area is a more relaxing, fun, and more enjoyable space. Don't think I would want to walk Into restaurant and watch someone cook my food...just me...but I enjoy cooking and I don't want to sit where I work to eat...I don t like saying closed kitchen I say separate...Dont get me wrong love to teach family how to cook with me yet not every one wants to learn so that's why I love separate kit hen❤❤❤I have large kit hen❤
Renovation being planned. No open kitchen. Formal entertaining so no thanks to guests watching me tasting the sauces and throwing spoons into the sink !😂
Reading the comments here have really given me some reassurance! We are moving into a home that’s almost forty years old. The kitchen is closed, but it has lots of windows and the slider to the patio where the barbecuer will be. There is room for a small breakfast table. And it even has a small nook with built in desk. It is just hubby and me and we aren’t planning on moving again. I thought it great, but could tell our young realtor thought it dated. I wondered if anyone else thought it a good thing.
Open concept, canned ceiling lights, island kitchens - the bane of new homes. Besides being poorly built crackerboxes that are thrown together for maximum profit a of them are put on slab foundations - another big no no. Give me a 1930s style house with long hallways, big front rooms, combined dining and kitchen areas both in a separate room, at least 3 or 4 windows in each room, a pier and beam foundation and even a basement if possible. And sell it for less than $400,000.
An open kitchen is for people who don't really cook, but want a "beautiful" kitchen for show, and who just want to serve hors d'oeuvres on a platter, heat up a pizza, boil something, or just use the microwave. Essentially, if you just eat salads or food that can be made in a blender, and don't have much of a need for a skillet or a wok, then it may be fine. However, if you regularly fry/grill/sauté, etc then you want your kitchen to be as isolated as possible. Oils become aerosolized and stick to everything, making it grimy and greasy, attracting more dust to stick to the surface, and you have a layer of gross greasy dusty mess. This happens in every kitchen that sees proper use. The cabinets, lights, walls, and ceiling all get this way. You don't want that all throughout your house. The smells are besides the point. It's the aerosolized grease and fumes that you are trying to contain. Can a high powered ventilation fan prevent all of this? Maybe...it definitely helps. But, most homes' ventilation system isn't adequate, and even so, professional kitchens, with commercial ventilation hoods teach us that it can't be totally controlled. I don't want that grease building up on my furniture or appliances. Yet, almost every home I've ever looked at has inadequate ventilation, and most of them have an open kitchen. I call them designer barbie doll kitchens.
My reno plan has my kitchen partially open. From the front door vantage point, you can see a beautiful, large island, pendants, open shelving with french doors in the background allowing plenty of natural light to flow. However, I have the main, load bearing wall directly in between the front door and the working side of the kitchen. As you walk around it, the stove w/ hood come into view followed by the sink and pantry area. The refrigerator, my least favorite object in any kitchen design, is tucked away on the other side of the wall. You have to actually be in the middle of the kitchen to see it. I can't wait to put this all together. I love your content! Keep up the outstanding work👍
Haha from the comments, it looks like closed is making a comeback. I prefer closed or at least semi closed. Whenever I look at model homes, the open concept just looks awkward. Not to mention, many homes are designed without acknowledging the fact that people have TVs.
@@1coketogo554I totally agree. Open floor plan is a cheap and lazy way for homebuilders to charge you more for doing less work and not being creative. If the kitchen is not in immaculate condition then it shows in the living area. I hate it too.
@@flexx7611 Plus I usually wake up hours before everyone else I want To go in the kitchen and do things but I know if I accidentally bang a pan or the oven door slips out of my hand and slams shut I'm going to wake up someone. If I had a kitchen that was closed off and a ways from the sleeping area and not in a cavernous echoing room I would have plenty of time to make some really good breakfast and get a head start on dinner. Maybe even cookies! As it is by the time everyone else gets up I feel comatose from sitting quietly and being bored for at least 4 hours I want a closed kitchen so much I have lots of other valid reasons too.
I'm building a new kitchen and I'm torn between making an open concept vs a closed concept plan. The kitchen area is long and narrow, and if we install a 2/3 wall to cut off the kitchen from the living area, I'm concerned that I'm going to feel cramped in the kitchen. Furthermore, I feel that there won't be as much natural light in the kitchen. On the other hand, I do a lot of cooking and don't like the idea of having all the cooking odors permeate throughout the living area in an open concept plan.
My dad's condo had a closed kitchen, but it never felt claustrophobic. Thanks to the giant glass doors, separating the kitchen and dinning room. And I've heard people say: "closed kitchen is sexist cos you're locking the woman away to cook in a coffin room." Which ironically is more sexist than a closed kitchen. It insinuates that cooking is a woman's job, while in other cultures, cooking is a communal activity, everyone comes together to cook.
I currently have a kitchen dining space in one with the living room down the hall. I would love to have an open concept but it can't happen in this house without losing either a full bath or my laundry room, which I'm not willing to do. I love the open concept but I'd have to have a raised lunch counter on the island, I'm not the best person at keeping the kitchen tidy and that will hide a lot of the mess and also help with my RA. I love the look of the wide island but you can't wipe it all down just standing in front of it, you have to go all the way around and if someone spilled a sticky mess across the middle then it's a lot of reaching and sometimes with the pain walking that additional 15' is a mountain you just can't climb that day. I would love your opinion on making an appliance garage on the back/underside of a raised lunch counter with doors that lift and slide under the upper counter. This would make the bottom island countertop deeper by maybe 18", my ideal island would be 90" long with no sink or stove in it. So potentially enough room for my toaster, electric kettle, ninja bullet, food saver vacuum sealer, George foreman grill/waffle maker, kitchen aid mixer and air fryer. I also thought about the aesthetics and maybe putting bookcases on either end to help hide the depth, with 15 inch deep upper cabinets under the garage to give it a little more function. Thought or opinion?
My first thought is that will make the second tier/lunch counter too high. In order to get enough room for storage (at least 12-15” tall), it would make the top tier ~48-51” high. Normally it is only a ~6” difference between the two.
I have zero problems with open kitchen if all people in house, change their cooking habits such that its not too Smoky, oilly, smelly etc. Just the smell alone going into other parts of house is enough to deter me from considering open design. And trust me i have seen people who's cooking is so terrible that they just cannot cook without smoking enter house, nor make it full of nasty oilly smell. And no matter how good of an exhaust you put in there but person can just overcome it (some even so annoying who never turn on exhaust despite having it there). So best to make it dumb proof (in terms of smell).
I prefer closed or at least semi-close- Who wants to hear and smell all the going on's in a kitchen? Also, what about the kitchen mess with having a dinner party?
Lounge as living roon would consist close concept separate Kitchen and Separate Dinner area while open concept would have living area and Kitchen and dinners area open to space in house.
I would choose a kitchen that can be closed off during and after the cooking process. Recently there has been a lot of press regarding the amount of pollutants, contaminates and chemicals produced by gas stoves and that people should switch to induction (which eliminates the contaminates produced by the gas). However, pollutants are still being produced from the food, and since most people have poorly designed ventilation systems over their stoves (or don't even bother using them) the contaminates circulate throughout the room and if it's an open plan "great room" the problem becomes even more widespread. If the kitchen can be closed off by a sliding door during the cooking process and for a short amount of time afterward so the vent hood can clear the room then the indoor air quality of the entire home is improved.
We have done this for a client- a complete sliding wall between the kitchen and dining area. The living was on the other side of the dining so this effectively closed off the kitchen entirely.
I'm considering a hybrid of sorts....a small kitchen with a bar and stools that are actually in the dining room.....adjacent to the living room. I'm thinking of adding a barrier of sorts. Part of what I'm sensitive to is smells....and it was brought home to me that smells in a house are cultural. We think of cooking smells lingering and wafting through the house as a comforting thing. But I had friends that had a au pair from Germany. She'd throw open the windows in the dead of winter to get rid of cooking smells. This was at the height of heating housing prices.....and losing and replacing all that heat was costing a fortune. In order to relax after a meal, I need to not see the work waiting for me (dirty dishes) or smell nothing but dinner. A good exhaust system is going to be difficult (townhouse) but necessary. And I'm also considering adding a glass wall with a door between the living room and dining room. It may help to corral odors and maybe even inject a sense of drama.
It’s all about figuring out what works for you. Good to see you are thinking about it thoroughly and from a few perspectives. The point I was trying to get across is there is more to it than most people think about. Thanks for adding your ideas!
I know we normally put the sink under a window, but do you have an option of putting your stove there instead? It would make it less expensive to vent outside and if your cooking something with a high odor you could open the window as you're cooking and use a fan to circulate the air out and if you did decide to put in a glass wall then you'd really only be "reheating" the kitchen, instead of the whole house. A slimline rangehood could work well above a window, there are lots of options to choose from.
@@candycane1275 It's definitely not common, and something a lot of builders don't like to do it (even if we want it there). There aren't any codes preventing it from being done, but I think it's more about the long term affect on the window - the potential for problems sooner than expected. The other challenge is where to put the range vent IF the window/kitchen was not designed to leave space for one above.
Sometimes it's just not an option. The wall between my kitchen and living room is a load bearing wall and I don't have the money or the desire to change it. Yes, it was a real nuisance to have to run around to check on the kids while I was cooking. Since we don't have a dining area set up - instead opting for a larger living room, and since the kitchen windows face east and get a lot of sun but the wall blocks it to the living room, which has a garage in front of the house and no windows, and north facing living room windows, I feel like we have the worst of it. If money was no object I would convert the garage into the front of the house and put big windows there and relocate the kitchen. Then use the sunny kitchen for an office/sun room. But I don't have that money and I don't think it would increase the value of the house very much, if at all. And then where would I put all the stuff in the garage? Sometimes you just make due with what you have. And think of what to look for next time you buy a house.
Some lazy dude created it and convinced a young family that they can keep an eye on the kids and interact with others while cooking. A sucker is born everyday.
You left out some of the biggest advantages of a closed kitchen. Beyond smells, cooking creates a lot of heat. It is frequently over 100 degrees here, and the living area stays much cooler with the kitchen shut off. Also, a closed kitchen is much easier to keep clean. No pets counter-surfing, etc. Mine has 4 windows, so the natural light thing was reaching. It really comes down to how much you cook, whether you have pets and want to keep the kitchen clean without a maid, and how much you want your house designed around other people or periodic entertaining vs everyday real life.
Lack of privacy, to be specific some guests are just lazy or dumb they try to wear shoes at the entry point but to wash hands they sneak into my kitchen sink because either too lazy to go to the guest bath rm or they find time way to jeopardize my open floor plan because all of them have older closed plans
Nothing is unattractive as seeing a multi million dollar mansion with an open concept with no separate formal living area and no creativity in floor plan. Might as well rent a warehouse and live in it. Homebuilders are charging you more and doing less work.
Here's a follow up video showing how one company created a folding door and window system that closes off the kitchen during cooking. czcams.com/video/2hT5yAbFThk/video.html
open kitchen is for people who don't cook with onions, garlic, high heat, etc...
I grew up in the 1960's and 70's. I'm okay with the kitchen being open to the dining room, but I don't want it open to the rest of the house.
This is one of the most common layouts out there
6:47 explains it all. this is why i prefer a closed kitchen. also, i'm easily distracted, so please keep all guests away from me while i'm trying to prepare a delicious meal for them!
I despise open floor plans. I hate everything about it
I totally agree.
Same, I hear closed floor plans are coming back.
Same here
Agree, we moved to a house with an open kitchen, we love the rest of the house and the property BUT hate the open kitchen...my husband and I are going to build a stand alone pantry to block the view of the kitchen from the living room.
Good video but you missed the number one reason for having a closed concept.
I love being able to close the door to the kitchen and other rooms and only heat or cool the rooms we are in. We save so much money by being able to close off rooms it is amazing.
As someone who has always had open concept this is by far the best reason to have a closed concept home.
Renovating an older home and chose to keep the existing separate kitchen design instead of having a load bearing wall removed. I included an eat-in breakfast nook as well as peninsula seating in the design so that I can still watch kids while they do homework. For introverts, its nice to have a separate space to think and work. I personally find it somewhat challenging to engage in conversation and cook at the same time while entertaining. I would much rather have most of the meal cooked before guests arrive, and be able to serve the food hot and close the door to the mess.
That’s also a great point! Our personality can play a huge role.
Love a separate kitchen and dinning room. Have large windows and great ventilation. Just need my space to cook and clean and cooking can be a labor of love. I absolutely believe a separate dining area is a more relaxing, fun, and more enjoyable space. Don't think I would want to walk Into restaurant and watch someone cook my food...just me...but I enjoy cooking and I don't want to sit where I work to eat...I don t like saying closed kitchen I say separate...Dont get me wrong love to teach family how to cook with me yet not every one wants to learn so that's why I love separate kit hen❤❤❤I have large kit hen❤
Separate kitchen is a great way to put it. Closed sounds too…negative.
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Renovation being planned. No open kitchen. Formal entertaining so no thanks to guests watching me tasting the sauces and throwing spoons into the sink !😂
Good to know there are still separate kitchens being planned!
Closed concept all the way.
Reading the comments here have really given me some reassurance! We are moving into a home that’s almost forty years old. The kitchen is closed, but it has lots of windows and the slider to the patio where the barbecuer will be. There is room for a small breakfast table. And it even has a small nook with built in desk. It is just hubby and me and we aren’t planning on moving again. I thought it great, but could tell our young realtor thought it dated. I wondered if anyone else thought it a good thing.
Open concept, canned ceiling lights, island kitchens - the bane of new homes. Besides being poorly built crackerboxes that are thrown together for maximum profit a of them are put on slab foundations - another big no no. Give me a 1930s style house with long hallways, big front rooms, combined dining and kitchen areas both in a separate room, at least 3 or 4 windows in each room, a pier and beam foundation and even a basement if possible. And sell it for less than $400,000.
We have a closed kitchen design but we also have 4 large windows and a patio door . The natural lighting wins every time .
Natural lighting is so important- makes a closed design feel much more comfortable
An open kitchen is for people who don't really cook, but want a "beautiful" kitchen for show, and who just want to serve hors d'oeuvres on a platter, heat up a pizza, boil something, or just use the microwave. Essentially, if you just eat salads or food that can be made in a blender, and don't have much of a need for a skillet or a wok, then it may be fine. However, if you regularly fry/grill/sauté, etc then you want your kitchen to be as isolated as possible. Oils become aerosolized and stick to everything, making it grimy and greasy, attracting more dust to stick to the surface, and you have a layer of gross greasy dusty mess. This happens in every kitchen that sees proper use. The cabinets, lights, walls, and ceiling all get this way. You don't want that all throughout your house. The smells are besides the point. It's the aerosolized grease and fumes that you are trying to contain. Can a high powered ventilation fan prevent all of this? Maybe...it definitely helps. But, most homes' ventilation system isn't adequate, and even so, professional kitchens, with commercial ventilation hoods teach us that it can't be totally controlled. I don't want that grease building up on my furniture or appliances. Yet, almost every home I've ever looked at has inadequate ventilation, and most of them have an open kitchen. I call them designer barbie doll kitchens.
My reno plan has my kitchen partially open. From the front door vantage point, you can see a beautiful, large island, pendants, open shelving with french doors in the background allowing plenty of natural light to flow. However, I have the main, load bearing wall directly in between the front door and the working side of the kitchen. As you walk around it, the stove w/ hood come into view followed by the sink and pantry area. The refrigerator, my least favorite object in any kitchen design, is tucked away on the other side of the wall. You have to actually be in the middle of the kitchen to see it. I can't wait to put this all together. I love your content! Keep up the outstanding work👍
Thanks for painting a great picture of your reno plan, and the kind words!
Don’t like open concept. The only way I’d go with it is if the entire home was under 400 sf.
Haha from the comments, it looks like closed is making a comeback. I prefer closed or at least semi closed. Whenever I look at model homes, the open concept just looks awkward. Not to mention, many homes are designed without acknowledging the fact that people have TVs.
I hate open floor. Hate. Hate. Hate. Not dislike… Hate.
I know this is a comment you made a while back but I totally agree with you!! I don't want people in my kitchen.
@@1coketogo554I totally agree. Open floor plan is a cheap and lazy way for homebuilders to charge you more for doing less work and not being creative. If the kitchen is not in immaculate condition then it shows in the living area. I hate it too.
@@flexx7611 Plus I usually wake up hours before everyone else I want To go in the kitchen and do things but I know if I accidentally bang a pan or the oven door slips out of my hand and slams shut I'm going to wake up someone. If I had a kitchen that was closed off and a ways from the sleeping area and not in a cavernous echoing room I would have plenty of time to make some really good breakfast and get a head start on dinner. Maybe even cookies! As it is by the time everyone else gets up I feel comatose from sitting quietly and being bored for at least 4 hours I want a closed kitchen so much I have lots of other valid reasons too.
I'm building a new kitchen and I'm torn between making an open concept vs a closed concept plan. The kitchen area is long and narrow, and if we install a 2/3 wall to cut off the kitchen from the living area, I'm concerned that I'm going to feel cramped in the kitchen. Furthermore, I feel that there won't be as much natural light in the kitchen. On the other hand, I do a lot of cooking and don't like the idea of having all the cooking odors permeate throughout the living area in an open concept plan.
My dad's condo had a closed kitchen, but it never felt claustrophobic. Thanks to the giant glass doors, separating the kitchen and dinning room.
And I've heard people say: "closed kitchen is sexist cos you're locking the woman away to cook in a coffin room." Which ironically is more sexist than a closed kitchen. It insinuates that cooking is a woman's job, while in other cultures, cooking is a communal activity, everyone comes together to cook.
I currently have a kitchen dining space in one with the living room down the hall. I would love to have an open concept but it can't happen in this house without losing either a full bath or my laundry room, which I'm not willing to do. I love the open concept but I'd have to have a raised lunch counter on the island, I'm not the best person at keeping the kitchen tidy and that will hide a lot of the mess and also help with my RA. I love the look of the wide island but you can't wipe it all down just standing in front of it, you have to go all the way around and if someone spilled a sticky mess across the middle then it's a lot of reaching and sometimes with the pain walking that additional 15' is a mountain you just can't climb that day.
I would love your opinion on making an appliance garage on the back/underside of a raised lunch counter with doors that lift and slide under the upper counter. This would make the bottom island countertop deeper by maybe 18", my ideal island would be 90" long with no sink or stove in it. So potentially enough room for my toaster, electric kettle, ninja bullet, food saver vacuum sealer, George foreman grill/waffle maker, kitchen aid mixer and air fryer. I also thought about the aesthetics and maybe putting bookcases on either end to help hide the depth, with 15 inch deep upper cabinets under the garage to give it a little more function. Thought or opinion?
My first thought is that will make the second tier/lunch counter too high. In order to get enough room for storage (at least 12-15” tall), it would make the top tier ~48-51” high. Normally it is only a ~6” difference between the two.
I have zero problems with open kitchen if all people in house, change their cooking habits such that its not too Smoky, oilly, smelly etc.
Just the smell alone going into other parts of house is enough to deter me from considering open design.
And trust me i have seen people who's cooking is so terrible that they just cannot cook without smoking enter house, nor make it full of nasty oilly smell. And no matter how good of an exhaust you put in there but person can just overcome it (some even so annoying who never turn on exhaust despite having it there).
So best to make it dumb proof (in terms of smell).
I prefer closed or at least semi-close- Who wants to hear and smell all the going on's in a kitchen? Also, what about the kitchen mess with having a dinner party?
Lounge as living roon would consist close concept separate Kitchen and Separate Dinner area while open concept would have living area and Kitchen and dinners area open to space in house.
I would choose a kitchen that can be closed off during and after the cooking process. Recently there has been a lot of press regarding the amount of pollutants, contaminates and chemicals produced by gas stoves and that people should switch to induction (which eliminates the contaminates produced by the gas). However, pollutants are still being produced from the food, and since most people have poorly designed ventilation systems over their stoves (or don't even bother using them) the contaminates circulate throughout the room and if it's an open plan "great room" the problem becomes even more widespread.
If the kitchen can be closed off by a sliding door during the cooking process and for a short amount of time afterward so the vent hood can clear the room then the indoor air quality of the entire home is improved.
We have done this for a client- a complete sliding wall between the kitchen and dining area. The living was on the other side of the dining so this effectively closed off the kitchen entirely.
Open is gross. Im so happy this fad is going away.
I'm considering a hybrid of sorts....a small kitchen with a bar and stools that are actually in the dining room.....adjacent to the living room. I'm thinking of adding a barrier of sorts.
Part of what I'm sensitive to is smells....and it was brought home to me that smells in a house are cultural. We think of cooking smells lingering and wafting through the house as a comforting thing. But I had friends that had a au pair from Germany. She'd throw open the windows in the dead of winter to get rid of cooking smells. This was at the height of heating housing prices.....and losing and replacing all that heat was costing a fortune.
In order to relax after a meal, I need to not see the work waiting for me (dirty dishes) or smell nothing but dinner. A good exhaust system is going to be difficult (townhouse) but necessary. And I'm also considering adding a glass wall with a door between the living room and dining room. It may help to corral odors and maybe even inject a sense of drama.
It’s all about figuring out what works for you. Good to see you are thinking about it thoroughly and from a few perspectives. The point I was trying to get across is there is more to it than most people think about. Thanks for adding your ideas!
I know we normally put the sink under a window, but do you have an option of putting your stove there instead? It would make it less expensive to vent outside and if your cooking something with a high odor you could open the window as you're cooking and use a fan to circulate the air out and if you did decide to put in a glass wall then you'd really only be "reheating" the kitchen, instead of the whole house. A slimline rangehood could work well above a window, there are lots of options to choose from.
@@candycane1275 It's definitely not common, and something a lot of builders don't like to do it (even if we want it there). There aren't any codes preventing it from being done, but I think it's more about the long term affect on the window - the potential for problems sooner than expected. The other challenge is where to put the range vent IF the window/kitchen was not designed to leave space for one above.
Is the kitchen in the living room or is the living room in the kitchen? That's the question I always ask about open kitchens.
I don't care to live in my kitchen.
Sometimes it's just not an option. The wall between my kitchen and living room is a load bearing wall and I don't have the money or the desire to change it. Yes, it was a real nuisance to have to run around to check on the kids while I was cooking. Since we don't have a dining area set up - instead opting for a larger living room, and since the kitchen windows face east and get a lot of sun but the wall blocks it to the living room, which has a garage in front of the house and no windows, and north facing living room windows, I feel like we have the worst of it. If money was no object I would convert the garage into the front of the house and put big windows there and relocate the kitchen. Then use the sunny kitchen for an office/sun room. But I don't have that money and I don't think it would increase the value of the house very much, if at all. And then where would I put all the stuff in the garage? Sometimes you just make due with what you have. And think of what to look for next time you buy a house.
You are absolutely correct! Unfortunately it isn’t always as simple as we would like it to be and we have to make the most of what we have.
Renovated and sold. Open floor plan.
Open kitchens are horrendous. I curse the person who invented this
Some lazy dude created it and convinced a young family that they can keep an eye on the kids and interact with others while cooking. A sucker is born everyday.
You left out some of the biggest advantages of a closed kitchen. Beyond smells, cooking creates a lot of heat. It is frequently over 100 degrees here, and the living area stays much cooler with the kitchen shut off. Also, a closed kitchen is much easier to keep clean. No pets counter-surfing, etc. Mine has 4 windows, so the natural light thing was reaching. It really comes down to how much you cook, whether you have pets and want to keep the kitchen clean without a maid, and how much you want your house designed around other people or periodic entertaining vs everyday real life.
love it closed off. I dont like to see everything all at once.
Lack of privacy, to be specific some guests are just lazy or dumb they try to wear shoes at the entry point but to wash hands they sneak into my kitchen sink because either too lazy to go to the guest bath rm or they find time way to jeopardize my open floor plan because all of them have older closed plans
Nothing is unattractive as seeing a multi million dollar mansion with an open concept with no separate formal living area and no creativity in floor plan. Might as well rent a warehouse and live in it. Homebuilders are charging you more and doing less work.
Here's a follow up video showing how one company created a folding door and window system that closes off the kitchen during cooking.
czcams.com/video/2hT5yAbFThk/video.html
Its often good to have closed kitchen if you have a cat/dog.
U should translate in hindi
Do not like open concept. Destroys character of a home.