Anonymous
Post 12/09/2013 10:50     Subject: DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would like to see a floor plan of a new build that doesn't have a formal living room. Especially outside the beltway.

Floorplan: http://www.reluxhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mayflower-Model-Website.pdf

Images:
http://www.thebeltteam.com/property/1202-COTTAGE-ST-SW-VIENNA-Virginia



They called it an office/study


The office / study is a seperate room and there is a powder room in the middle to give it more of separation but keeping with the open floorplan.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2013 10:43     Subject: DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would like to see a floor plan of a new build that doesn't have a formal living room. Especially outside the beltway.

Floorplan: http://www.reluxhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mayflower-Model-Website.pdf

Images:
http://www.thebeltteam.com/property/1202-COTTAGE-ST-SW-VIENNA-Virginia



They called it an office/study
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2013 09:02     Subject: Re:DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
A lot of DC rowhouses are one giant room--front to back. See the back of the house from the front door.

This is how our house built in 1880 is designed -- as are most of that time period (with galley kitchen in back$.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2013 09:00     Subject: Re:DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:That's what I live in. Center hall colonial on outside. Open first floor plan.


Ours has the stairway in the middle so it is not one giant room, but has a circular open plan. I can't see across the main level because of stairwell/kitchen pantry so there is some separation.

This is a dream house for entertaining. It has great flow. Our other levels are traditional with walls, etc.

This is a 1930 house and the tiny separated rooms would have felt claustrophobic to me.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:56     Subject: Re:DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hate the giant room with kitchen stuck to one wall look. It's trendy. Will phase out eventually.

Two reasons why I think you're wrong: First: the giant room has much more capacity for parties than if the same space were divided into dining, living, recreation rooms and kitchen. Second: families like to hang out together but doing different things, including when extended family are visiting: this happened at Thanksgiving, we could overhear each other's conversations if we chose but we could also tune it out.


But then people don't get to choose if they're overheard. It's a complete failure.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:55     Subject: DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would like to see a floor plan of a new build that doesn't have a formal living room. Especially outside the beltway.

Floorplan: http://www.reluxhomes.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mayflower-Model-Website.pdf

Images:
http://www.thebeltteam.com/property/1202-COTTAGE-ST-SW-VIENNA-Virginia



Here is another one http://www.sekashomes.com/pages/homes/cheshire/default.asp




This one looks like a basement.


You people are very short sighted, you can always put up drywall to enclose rooms in the above picture but it would be very hard to do the opposite. It is actually more costly and is an upgrade to reconfigure structural supports and load bearing walls to the outside for open floor plans. It's cheaper for a builder to throw up walls and put beams and supports behind the walls separating rooms.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:54     Subject: Re:DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I hate the giant room with kitchen stuck to one wall look. It's trendy. Will phase out eventually.


i'm under 30 and agreed with you. HATE this 'flow' great room crap.

give me a classic separated style anyday.



Fail


Why, because they disagree with you?
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:52     Subject: DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
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Anonymous wrote:Why did you use the word "dc" in your subject line?

The article talks about new construction in oakton, McLean, Rockville, Reston, Howard county, silver spring, and my perennial favorite, LOUDON effing county.



DC is generally understood to be a metropolitan area. Do you not comprehend that?


NP here, no it is not. Have you only recently moved here? DC = District of Columbia.


Whoopee. DC is two letters, "Washington-area" is 14. Get a life.


No, you get a CLUE. DC is the District of Columbia. If you are regularly using it to suggest the greater Washington area you are confusing a lot of people and you are wrong. Those of us who live in DC think it's crazy and ridiculous when people like you suggest that Reston or McLean is "DC". It is blatantly not and you are 100 percent WRONG. It's like living in New Jersey and calling it Manhattan.


Don't worry. I'm not the poster who started the thread. Personally, I wouldn't want anyone to think I lived in DC. I just think you're making way too big a deal over this.

BTW, comparing DC to Manhattan is the epitome of misguided arrogance. NYC is a world-class city. DC is a social and cultural backwater that's overshadowed in jobs, population and wealth by the surrounding areas.


Then why on earth does every hick from bumblefuck nowhere suburb of DC say, when asked, that they live in DC? I live in Fairfax and that's what I say. I don't pretend to live in DC.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:49     Subject: DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:I absolutely hate those floor plans. Then again, I live in DC in a simple house with rooms and walls, so I guess that's win-win


+1

I hate houses like the ones pictured above.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:34     Subject: Re:DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
That's what I live in. Center hall colonial on outside. Open first floor plan.
Anonymous
Post 12/08/2013 19:33     Subject: Re:DC Buyers Prefer Traditional Exteriors and Open Floorplans
Anonymous wrote:I live in a true open concept and NEVER will again. There is no privacy, no ability to hid a mess with unexpected guests come over. I can't stand it. My favorite house of all time had a kitchen with a small but cozy sitting area that was the heart of the home. We hope to build soon and plan to do that.


Agree. Open plans are the worst.