DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
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Anonymous
Agree. Open plans are the worst. |
Anonymous
| That's what I live in. Center hall colonial on outside. Open first floor plan. |
Anonymous
+1 I hate houses like the ones pictured above. |
Anonymous
Then why on earth does every hick from bumblefuck nowhere suburb of DC say, when asked, that they live in DC? I live in Fairfax and that's what I say. I don't pretend to live in DC. |
Anonymous
Why, because they disagree with you? |
Anonymous
You people are very short sighted, you can always put up drywall to enclose rooms in the above picture but it would be very hard to do the opposite. It is actually more costly and is an upgrade to reconfigure structural supports and load bearing walls to the outside for open floor plans. It's cheaper for a builder to throw up walls and put beams and supports behind the walls separating rooms. |
Anonymous
But then people don't get to choose if they're overheard. It's a complete failure. |
Anonymous
Ours has the stairway in the middle so it is not one giant room, but has a circular open plan. I can't see across the main level because of stairwell/kitchen pantry so there is some separation. This is a dream house for entertaining. It has great flow. Our other levels are traditional with walls, etc. This is a 1930 house and the tiny separated rooms would have felt claustrophobic to me. |
Anonymous
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A lot of DC rowhouses are one giant room--front to back. See the back of the house from the front door.
This is how our house built in 1880 is designed -- as are most of that time period (with galley kitchen in back$. |
Anonymous
They called it an office/study |
Anonymous
The office / study is a seperate room and there is a powder room in the middle to give it more of separation but keeping with the open floorplan. |