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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I work for an architect and I can’t remember having a client who wanted to close anything off that wasn’t a bedroom, bathroom, closet mud room, gym, ot office. Without exception every single project we work on a home involves opening something up.

With that said, trends don’t matter, do what makes you happy. I don’t think open concept is a trend, it is just the  casual lifestyle people have had for the last 25 years. [/quote]

Maybe when it comes to opening up a kitchen, I believe you, but it's totally bunk if you are talking about other spaces if you worked for an urban architect.  There is plenty of demand to create closed off rooms when housing price goes over 1k/sq.ft and families want to make it work.  
Urban townhomes where the walls were removed to create vast master bedrooms and dressing rooms and open living spaces for a childless couple tend to sit on the market longer, and if bought by families would undergo inevitable reconstruction of walls.  And if you worked for an architect in NYC, you would be putting more walls in than taking them out to make bedrooms out of dining rooms, sleeping alcoves in studios, etc.  Kitchens usually still undergo "opening up" because it makes the small spaces look larger, but not always.  Galley kitchens are still abound to preserve precious cabinet space. [/quote]

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