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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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![/quote]

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.  [/quote]

Not the pp, but I guess for me it's like the the difference between being at a big wedding in a convention hall or ball room, and being at a wedding held at a historic mansion or tavern where you can move from one room to the next, each time enjoying a slightly different ambiance.  It's about intimacy even if you have a large crowd.  It's a different feeling and surely  there's nothing wrong with either.

And some people don't like crowds at all and prefer to hang out in a smaller room with fewer people.  I know people who won't go to big parties because they don't want to be stuck in a large space with tons of people.  But they will go to a party at a house where they know they can hang out in the study or the kitchen.

But I think whether or not you like an open floor plan is more about how you live day to day, rather than about just how you entertain, and obviously there are just different feelings about that.  Nothing wrong with either.  [b]Vive la difference! [/b][/quote]

One would think.[/quote]

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