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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The benefit to step-downs is a higher overall ceiling height, so there is a benefit. It also provides a separation of space in cases where floor plans are open, which is probably why you see it more starting in the 70s into the 80s when floor plans opened up a lot.[/quote]
Fair point about the ceiling height, though I'd argue that an extra foot is not really doing much. I'm short though, so maybe it's more of a benefit for tall people? As for separation, the ones I've seen are still pretty integrated with the rest of the house in a way that [i]should[/i] just flow, but can't because of the step.[/quote]

Then you haven’t had a sunken living room. Maybe it’s only a foot, but it feels like 3 or more somehow. If you don’t have an open floor plan (we don’t, I hate them, pandemic proved me right :) ), then the con isn’t there, and the pros are many: separates the space, elevates the height, allows for enormous christmas tree, allows for dramatic tall cabinets, and at least in our house, is set apart by a back way with three sets of custom french doors that wouldn’t work without the height. So…we like it. [/quote]
Every sunken living room I've seen is next to a dining room and if it weren't sunken, you'd be able to expand a table into the living room for Thanksgiving and large dinner parties, but you can't, because there's a step.
Maybe I'd appreciate the extra height for the 3 weeks of the year I had a Christmas tree if I celebrated Christmas? I suppose we'll never know, because I'm still walking out of any house with a sunken room.[/quote]

How many people have large dinner parties that involve making a single table much larger (and have the piece to do it) and don't already have a large enough dining room? I understand your concern, but I'm guessing it applies to maybe 100 people max.[/quote]

Ugh. I do!  (NP) We have a large extended family and we always host big holidays. 
We have a sunken living room and I hate it. We can't expand our dining table, which yes, is expandable, so we have to get creative and ads smaller table in the living room.  It sucks for other reasons too.  This is our first home  and we overlooked a few things we didn't realize we would come to hate.

We are casually looking for a newer, bigger house, so I hope someone will love our house enough to have have the sunken living room be a deal breaker. 
Funny though,  a lot of the things people have put on their list of deal breakers are actually things we are looking for. 
To each their own. [/quote]

If a sunken room or two were a deal breaker for most people, very few houses would turn over in much of the area. No one I personally know cares about that. But it's an issue for some people, just like there's a cadre of a few people who hate basements and won't buy a house with a basement.[/quote]

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