does anyone else hate open floorplans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like open floor plans either. I like to be able to close off rooms, have private conversations, quiet areas. This isn't possible in an open plan. A well-planned house will have good flow and some open area for larger-scale entertaining, but will allow people some quiet and cosy areas.

I hate being at peoples' houses and being able to see through all the rooms hundreds of feet away, and to hear and be overheard, and see and be seen no matter where I am. It's exhausting.

Why, are you talking about the host, or going throughout their closets? Otherwise, it should not be such a big deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't like open floor plans either. I like to be able to close off rooms, have private conversations, quiet areas. This isn't possible in an open plan. A well-planned house will have good flow and some open area for larger-scale entertaining, but will allow people some quiet and cosy areas.

I hate being at peoples' houses and being able to see through all the rooms hundreds of feet away, and to hear and be overheard, and see and be seen no matter where I am. It's exhausting.

Exhausting? Sounds like a mental condition related to fear of being in public or the opposite of claustrophobia.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We live in one now and I can't stand it. There is no privacy, and if the kitchen is messy the whole place looks messy. No place to hid during a dinner party.

We've started house hunting a bit and it seems like anyplace that has been redone has had all of the walls knocked down.

There must be a happy medium. Am I alone in thinking this way?

I have an open floor plan on a new house. I can't see my kitchen from the foyer or the kitchen sink from the family room.

Maybe you should should just post a link to your original annoying rant or just bump that thread.

Are you the type of person who never cleans up their home and believes that cleaning up means throwing all your piles of shit into one closet or room?

+1. I have an open floor plan with a first floor family room (in addition to a basement family room and a second floor loft), and though you can see my full kitchen from our FF family room, it isn't an issue because I'm not a slob and capable of keeping my kitchen clean. The layout rocks for parties and family gatherings because we can all be in the same area without being on top of each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I too hate open floorplans, especially open kitchens. Who wants to open the front door and see dirty dishes?? Looking to buy a Petworth rowhouse, and none of them have walls anymore! Super annoying.

There's a solution to this. It's called cleaning. You should try it!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I too hate open floorplans, especially open kitchens. Who wants to open the front door and see dirty dishes?? Looking to buy a Petworth rowhouse, and none of them have walls anymore! Super annoying.

There's a solution to this. It's called cleaning. You should try it!!

+1. If you can afford an open house you can afford the help to clean it.

[Anonymous]

Who has/uses living rooms anymore? Are you having tea with the other biddies at noon? Knock down that @#$%ing wall and enjoy it as one big space.

[Anonymous]

I love having separate spaces for different things. When we have parties, it is nice for different groups to congregate in different areas. And I can set up the dining room in advance because it isn't in the main gathering area. That said, we have a semi-open floorplan - large walkways between most rooms. I can see the family room from the kitchen, but we also have a pocket door that can close the kitchen off. The kitchen itself is big enough for 6 or so people to gather. This arrangement has really worked for our family.
That said, I probably have a dinner party or other party where I'm cooking about 5 times a year. It always cracks me up on house hunters and other HGTV shows when people look at open kitchens and say "ooh, i love that I"ll be able to cook and still interact with my guests at parties." Unless you have a party every week, that seems like a really silly reason to choose a floorplan!

[Anonymous]

I also dislike open floor plans. A majority of my friends dislike them too. That said, an open floor plan can work well, but it needs to be well designed, depending on the type of house.

To each their own.

[Anonymous]

Morons don't like open floor plans , add this to the anti garage idiots on dcum , not representative of what home buyers want

[Anonymous]

I hate truly open floor plans. I like a defined sense of space, and since I often work at home I like to have a quiet room to be in. I like a sense of coziness when I'm sitting down to read, and open floor plans don't do it for me. When I'm in the kitchen or study, I don't want to hear what someone else is watching on the tv in the living room. When I'm sitting down to eat dinner I want it to be in a nice calm environment, and don't want to see the sink filled with pots and pans. And yes, I do clean my kitchen every day, but I don't clean up immediately after I finish cooking a meal - I wait until after the meal is over.

We have good flow through our house, but still have discrete rooms. To me that's ideal. It's harder to have that in a small house, though.

Also, I need some walls to hang my art on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Morons don't like open floor plans , add this to the anti garage idiots on dcum , not representative of what home buyers want

Old people don't like open floor plans.

If I had it my way, I'd eliminate my completely unnecessary living and dining rooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love having separate spaces for different things. When we have parties, it is nice for different groups to congregate in different areas. And I can set up the dining room in advance because it isn't in the main gathering area. That said, we have a semi-open floorplan - large walkways between most rooms. I can see the family room from the kitchen, but we also have a pocket door that can close the kitchen off. The kitchen itself is big enough for 6 or so people to gather. This arrangement has really worked for our family.
That said, I probably have a dinner party or other party where I'm cooking about 5 times a year. It always cracks me up on house hunters and other HGTV shows when people look at open kitchens and say "ooh, i love that I"ll be able to cook and still interact with my guests at parties." Unless you have a party every week, that seems like a really silly reason to choose a floorplan!

I guess I don't understand the preference to have your party guests separate from one another. I'd hate having to host and running from one room to another to talk to all of my guests. We only feel comfortable inviting a limited number of people to our (closed floorplan) house at once specifically for that reason. I wish we had a larger open space to invite more of our friends and family over.

[Anonymous]

Crazy open-floor-plan troll, give it a rest already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Crazy open-floor-plan troll, give it a rest already.

honestly not sure which ones you think are the trolls, but the vitriol spewed by people in favor of open floor plans is a little crazy to me.

fwiw count me in as "it depends" on the space/degree.

[Anonymous]

you need to evolve. Older homes didn't have big closets and now they do. Older homes didn't have seperate showers, now they do, women used to cook and clean, things change.