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Anonymous wrote:Four-plus years since this thread was started it doesn't seem that open plan is going anywhere.

Disagree. It starts with the wealthy and takes years to trickle down to the masses.

The grey trend started maybe a decade before your average American was painting their walls grey. Then it went out of style for the wealthy a good 5 years before it fell out of favor with the average person.

Has the grey trend fallen out of favor with the average person? I still see a lot of it. I thought it was a fleeting trend years ago but it seems to still be going strong.

Anonymous wrote:Four-plus years since this thread was started it doesn't seem that open plan is going anywhere.

Disagree. It starts with the wealthy and takes years to trickle down to the masses.

The grey trend started maybe a decade before your average American was painting their walls grey. Then it went out of style for the wealthy a good 5 years before it fell out of favor with the average person.

I just don’t see it going back to fully closed off kitchens in 4 K houses and smaller. Open concept increases the flow and usable square footage. As people now want home offices, large master baths, etc etc the square footage has to come from somewhere. Closing off a kitchen but still making that space large enough for another seating area uses up space. You also lose flexibility on where you place it to make sure you have good window access.

Four-plus years since this thread was started it doesn't seem that open plan is going anywhere.

I don't think it's a new-fangled open floor plan thing... Growing up as a kid in the 80s and 90s, I can't think of even one of my friends' houses that had a kitchen that could be closed up with doors on all sides. Sure, some had more walls than others, but it wasn't like you could shut smells behind kitchen doors then either...

We built our house and chose not to have an open floor plan and absolutely love it.
We have never regretted our choice.
If you like traditional floor plans, go for it! You will have buyers

I'm so glad we pushed back on the architects suggestions to turn our separated rings into an open floor plan.

I think it's certainly behind less popular post pandemic and with more wfh.