Posted on 05/14/2019 4:10:42 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Haha, the open design concept still leaves separate rooms such as bedrooms for privacy. If you do not wish to interact with your own family, hey, that’s your own private issue. But, “generally” speaking... we’re not talking about Grandma’s feather bed here.
Everyone enjoys sitting around a campfire. In the home, the TV is the campfire. The point of an open concept design is to afford more the opportunity to gather as a family and communicate. With any normal gathering, the crowd always tends to gather in the kitchen because one or two individuals (hostess and/or host) are “stuck” there preparing meals. In an open design, everyone can enjoy the company and the “campfire”.
Separate room design promotes anti-social hermits and ogres, but spin it however you feel fit. :-)
Open = feminine; closed = masculine.
Was. Nowadays people watch TV on their laptop or tablets. I rarely actually watch TV anymore on my TV.
What a great post, thinking about your daughter playing made my heart smile too.
https://christinprophecy.org/sermons/norten-on-the-feasts-of-Israel
Beginning at minute 14:08 is the reality of the Christmas birth and the Lamb.
“...the 30 something’s with a “keep up with the Jones’s “ lifestyle.”
I think that is much of it with my wife. She’s happy the way it is, until she visits somebody with a new or remodeled home. Of course then, it isn’t just the open floor plan - EVERYTHING is new and updated. I’m guessing that has a lot to do with it.
And of course that’s what it would end up like if we ever did it. “Well, as long as we are putting in hardware floors and have to move everything, we should probably replace our 27 year-old fridge.....
All the new fridges are 6-inches wider, we’ll have to remove that cabinet.....
We call it “Give a mouse a cookie” after the children’s book!
In IT we call it, “Scope Creep”
Cooked For them. My bad. They tasted delicious lol.
We have a kitchen family room combo. So when we want to be together we stay there
That’s an addition to the original home. I like the separate rooms. I don’t want to watch all my husband’s sports shows nor does he want to watch mine
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