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[quote=Anonymous]Trends come and go. How do you want to live?

The house I grew up in was very open-concept, with only bedrooms/bathrooms separated. The first house I bought as an adult was similar but much smaller.

Now we live in a large, semi-open concept house. The kitchen is separated but shares space with a large sunroom/eating area, for example. The living room is its own space, as is the dining room.

On first impression, I did not like it. I complained about the lack of "flow" between the spaces, because I was used to living in houses where there really weren't any hard demarcations between spaces, you defined them by furniture rather than walls.

Now, I love it. Defined spaces all the way! I find background noise really distracting, while my H always wants something on. Now the living room TV doesn't bug me while I'm doing things in the kitchen. If I have adults over and we're in the living room or the dining room, kids don't have to cross through to get to the kitchen or their rooms. During the pandemic it was great, because we set up individual spaces for everyone where we couldn't hear each other or try to focus while one kid or the other was doing virtual PE, and so on.

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