08-16-2024, 10:35 AM
#1
Are houses with "Open Concept" interior overrated?
Living room, dining room and kitchen just one big space, but I don't get the appeal. I get it for entertaining purposes everyone can be together, but when I entertain, people are usually in groups anyway.
Isn't it better to have privacy so you can have conversations without having to talk over other people across the room and you can talk about other people without them hearing. Not to mention TVs in the living room and the kitchen, instead of just the living room.
Anyone else prefer walls to separate the rooms instead of using furniture?
Isn't it better to have privacy so you can have conversations without having to talk over other people across the room and you can talk about other people without them hearing. Not to mention TVs in the living room and the kitchen, instead of just the living room.
Anyone else prefer walls to separate the rooms instead of using furniture?
- squat_blaster
- Registered User
-
- squat_blaster
- Registered User
- Join Date: Dec 2007
- Posts: 1,771
- Rep Power: 16,016
-
Quote
08-16-2024, 10:36 AM
#2
Originally Posted By squat_blaster⏩
No. Walls are for phāggots.
Living room, dining room and kitchen just one big space, but I don't get the appeal. I get it for entertaining purposes everyone can be together, but when I entertain, people are usually in groups anyway.
Isn't it better to have privacy so you can have conversations without having to talk over other people across the room and you can talk about other people without them hearing. Not to mention TVs in the living room and the kitchen, instead of just the living room.
Anyone else prefer walls to separate the rooms instead of using furniture?
Isn't it better to have privacy so you can have conversations without having to talk over other people across the room and you can talk about other people without them hearing. Not to mention TVs in the living room and the kitchen, instead of just the living room.
Anyone else prefer walls to separate the rooms instead of using furniture?
When it comes your time to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with the fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.
08-16-2024, 10:37 AM
#3
Hell no. Walking around walls is stupid.
08-16-2024, 10:39 AM
#4
In 20 years we’ll probably see people adding walls to open concept houses after we’ve spent the last while tearing them all down, because things tend to be cyclical
There can be cons, I have a 2-story open living room with a balcony on my second floor and sound from the TV carries to all the bedrooms. I had my main floor/basement ceiling heavily insulated for this reason.
There can be cons, I have a 2-story open living room with a balcony on my second floor and sound from the TV carries to all the bedrooms. I had my main floor/basement ceiling heavily insulated for this reason.
08-16-2024, 10:41 AM
#5
Walls serve a fundamental purpose of segmenting a home into different purposes.
If you have an open concept, anytime you watch a movie it's going to be interrupted bigly from whoever is in the kitchen.
If you have an open concept, anytime you watch a movie it's going to be interrupted bigly from whoever is in the kitchen.
S&P
Use "TAKEOFF20" to save 21% at:
CountryClubPrep.com
and
TideandPeakOutfitters.com
- cheesemachine
- Texas Fight
-
- cheesemachine
- Texas Fight
- Join Date: Aug 2010
- Posts: 3,185
- Rep Power: 31,969
-
08-16-2024, 10:44 AM
#6
Never been a fan of having a kitchen in my living room. I dont get it.
"To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other."– Carlos Castaneda
08-16-2024, 10:45 AM
#7
Walls crew.
Brb cant hear chit and can't relax because someone is cooking and doing dishes, brb doing chit in the kitchen and need bright ass lights on so the entire floor is lit up, brb zero alone time someone is always in the vicinity, etc
Brb cant hear chit and can't relax because someone is cooking and doing dishes, brb doing chit in the kitchen and need bright ass lights on so the entire floor is lit up, brb zero alone time someone is always in the vicinity, etc
08-16-2024, 11:00 AM
#8
Originally Posted By John L⏩
This guy gets it. The last thing I wanna hear is women talking over the TV or someone walking in front of the TV especially when there's a game on. Not to mention if you get a phone call you have no place to go, but outside or a bedroom
Walls crew.
Brb cant hear chit and can't relax because someone is cooking and doing dishes, brb doing chit in the kitchen and need bright ass lights on so the entire floor is lit up, brb zero alone time someone is always in the vicinity, etc
Brb cant hear chit and can't relax because someone is cooking and doing dishes, brb doing chit in the kitchen and need bright ass lights on so the entire floor is lit up, brb zero alone time someone is always in the vicinity, etc
- squat_blaster
- Registered User
-
- squat_blaster
- Registered User
- Join Date: Dec 2007
- Posts: 1,771
- Rep Power: 16,016
-
08-16-2024, 11:13 AM
#9
Originally Posted By Godfrd824⏩
No. Walls are for phāggots.
see Krackerjacked's sig
- BrianDaMan
- Registered User
-
- BrianDaMan
- Registered User
- Join Date: Jun 2011
- Posts: 13,599
- Rep Power: 383,195
-
08-16-2024, 11:19 AM
#10
Nah I prefer an open floor plan. Feels more spacious. too much separation is constricting and can feel oppressing especially if you don't have good natural lighting. nevermind needing to finagle anything large into the house.
"So t
08-16-2024, 11:19 AM
#11
OpEn conCePt = 0 architecture, 0 design.
08-16-2024, 11:20 AM
#12
When I was younger I liked the idea. Open concept. Easier to everyone to be together. Most houses now are a smaller square footage so it seems 'bigger' inside. Etc. Now that I own a house with an open floor-plan I see the issues.
1. When you cook in the kitchen. The smell of food gets everywhere.
2. The noise carries over dramatically. If you are trying to watch a movie, read, etc. in the living room. And someone is cooking in the kitchen. The clatter of pots/pans, the vent on the stove, the sizzle of food, timers going off, etc. make a ton of noise.
3. Kitchens typically get hot in the summer time. If its not a segregated/insulated room. That transfers into the rest of the house. The front breezeway, the living room the dining room, etc.
4. If you do have guests over its certainly noisier/harder to have a private/different conversation.
Thinking back to older homes. I can now see why the kitchen and dining room are separate from the living room. Also see why a lot of homes also had a 'den' secondary to a living room.
1. When you cook in the kitchen. The smell of food gets everywhere.
2. The noise carries over dramatically. If you are trying to watch a movie, read, etc. in the living room. And someone is cooking in the kitchen. The clatter of pots/pans, the vent on the stove, the sizzle of food, timers going off, etc. make a ton of noise.
3. Kitchens typically get hot in the summer time. If its not a segregated/insulated room. That transfers into the rest of the house. The front breezeway, the living room the dining room, etc.
4. If you do have guests over its certainly noisier/harder to have a private/different conversation.
Thinking back to older homes. I can now see why the kitchen and dining room are separate from the living room. Also see why a lot of homes also had a 'den' secondary to a living room.
08-16-2024, 11:26 AM
#13
There's nothing worse than some small ranch house from the 1960s with a ton of small rooms.
The only reason Open Concept wasn't a thing in the past is because often you had like 6 people living in one small ass house and walls were the only way you could prevent yourself from wanting to jump off of a bridge.
Imaging what type of Kung Fu magic you needed to go through so you could masturbate as a 14 year old while living in a 1300 sq/ft Ranch home in the suburbs back in 1960 with your family of 6.
The only reason Open Concept wasn't a thing in the past is because often you had like 6 people living in one small ass house and walls were the only way you could prevent yourself from wanting to jump off of a bridge.
Imaging what type of Kung Fu magic you needed to go through so you could masturbate as a 14 year old while living in a 1300 sq/ft Ranch home in the suburbs back in 1960 with your family of 6.
- OliverHeldens
- Registered User
-
- OliverHeldens
- Registered User
- Join Date: Oct 2014
- Age: 31
- Posts: 23,019
- Rep Power: 110,630
-
08-16-2024, 11:31 AM
#14
Originally Posted By guest89⏩
Opencels btfo.
When I was younger I liked the idea. Open concept. Easier to everyone to be together. Most houses now are a smaller square footage so it seems 'bigger' inside. Etc. Now that I own a house with an open floor-plan I see the issues.
1. When you cook in the kitchen. The smell of food gets everywhere.
2. The noise carries over dramatically. If you are trying to watch a movie, read, etc. in the living room. And someone is cooking in the kitchen. The clatter of pots/pans, the vent on the stove, the sizzle of food, timers going off, etc. make a ton of noise.
3. Kitchens typically get hot in the summer time. If its not a segregated/insulated room. That transfers into the rest of the house. The front breezeway, the living room the dining room, etc.
4. If you do have guests over its certainly noisier/harder to have a private/different conversation.
Thinking back to older homes. I can now see why the kitchen and dining room are separate from the living room. Also see why a lot of homes also had a 'den' secondary to a living room.
1. When you cook in the kitchen. The smell of food gets everywhere.
2. The noise carries over dramatically. If you are trying to watch a movie, read, etc. in the living room. And someone is cooking in the kitchen. The clatter of pots/pans, the vent on the stove, the sizzle of food, timers going off, etc. make a ton of noise.
3. Kitchens typically get hot in the summer time. If its not a segregated/insulated room. That transfers into the rest of the house. The front breezeway, the living room the dining room, etc.
4. If you do have guests over its certainly noisier/harder to have a private/different conversation.
Thinking back to older homes. I can now see why the kitchen and dining room are separate from the living room. Also see why a lot of homes also had a 'den' secondary to a living room.
Not to mention open concept just makes the house feel cold and soulless.
08-16-2024, 11:39 AM
#15
Originally Posted By OliverHeldens⏩
Agreed. I like open concept. Went to my bosses open house, and thats the layout is in his new home. its really nice. The only benefits to the wall is it gives you more cabinet space, I guess. Other than that:
There's nothing worse than some small ranch house from the 1960s with a ton of small rooms.
The only reason Open Concept wasn't a thing in the past is because often you had like 6 people living in one small ass house and walls were the only way you could prevent yourself from wanting to jump off of a bridge.
Imaging what type of Kung Fu magic you needed to go through so you could masturbate as a 14 year old while living in a 1300 sq/ft Ranch home in the suburbs back in 1960 with your family of 6.
The only reason Open Concept wasn't a thing in the past is because often you had like 6 people living in one small ass house and walls were the only way you could prevent yourself from wanting to jump off of a bridge.
Imaging what type of Kung Fu magic you needed to go through so you could masturbate as a 14 year old while living in a 1300 sq/ft Ranch home in the suburbs back in 1960 with your family of 6.
-Smells from food cooking in the kitchen are not blocked by a wall
-an the wall doesn't block out sound.
what the lack of a wall DOES do, is allow more light to come into the kitchen (if your kitchen doesn't face a window) and makes the primary living space appear larger.
Originally Posted By Zackad⏩
wizard
Nah I prefer an open floor plan. Feels more spacious. too much separation is constricting and can feel oppressing especially if you don't have good natural lighting. nevermind needing to finagle anything large into the house.
08-16-2024, 11:51 AM
#16
One thing I do give to the Opencels is that it's a lot easier to move big furniture without walls, but the problem is that you probably won't have a big entertainment center, china cabinet, a nice big desk etc anyway due to the lack of walls.
08-16-2024, 11:55 AM
#17
Nah I really like open concepts. Too many rooms with walls just makes it seem like im walking in a maze, but I also understand how some ITT are saying about the noise in an open concept.
That's why you gotta get a house with a basement, and have your own epic man cave.
That's why you gotta get a house with a basement, and have your own epic man cave.
- Dontoewsmebro
- Das it Mein
-
- Dontoewsmebro
- Das it Mein
- Join Date: Apr 2014
- Posts: 15,467
- Rep Power: 200,016
-
08-16-2024, 11:55 AM
#18
Open concept is GOAT
6'3 Master Race
GOATCal Crew
No Pillow Crew
Pureblood Crew
- TaeBoNinja
- Vagina Whisperer
-
- TaeBoNinja
- Vagina Whisperer
- Join Date: Sep 2009
- Location: United States
- Posts: 39,860
- Rep Power: 174,067
-
08-16-2024, 11:59 AM
#19
Originally Posted By Dontoewsmebro⏩
Yeah you need multiple floors for sure with an open concept
Nah I really like open concepts. Too many rooms with walls just makes it seem like im walking in a maze, but I also understand how some ITT are saying about the noise in an open concept.
That's why you gotta get a house with a basement, and have your own epic man cave.
That's why you gotta get a house with a basement, and have your own epic man cave.
I’m making my basement the media area with TV, sound system, etc and then have the ceiling fully insulated and fitted with resilient channel then the main floor open to the top floor will just be for socializing and such.
08-16-2024, 12:03 PM
#20
I was gonna vote open concept, but I'm not sure. Houses with several small rooms are ugly. But then I got to thinking; I'd say it depends on how big the house is.
Peasant wageslaves = Open concept
MOGGERS = Walls
Peasant wageslaves = Open concept
MOGGERS = Walls
- MikeLowrrrey
- Registered User
-
- MikeLowrrrey
- Registered User
- Join Date: Jul 2018
- Age: 54
- Posts: 19,946
- Rep Power: 109,802
-
08-16-2024, 12:07 PM
#21
i think open concept is kinda overrated and something that got hyped up by hgtv about 15 years ago. i don't mind having separate rooms.
- eddiehaskell
- Registered User
-
- eddiehaskell
- Registered User
- Join Date: Oct 2009
- Age: 40
- Posts: 8,951
- Rep Power: 39,796
-
08-16-2024, 12:08 PM
#22
I think they are overrated for livability, especially if the house is net zero or a passive house. I toured a passive house that was open concept and it was SO LOUD. It could be thunderstorming out and you wouldn't know it, but any noise in the house just gets amplified like crazy.
xTUNAx
Ironman finisher
Resident MISC cardio expert
08-16-2024, 12:13 PM
#23
Originally Posted By mezner09⏩
I think they are overrated for livability, especially if the house is net zero or a passive house. I toured a passive house that was open concept and it was SO LOUD. It could be thunderstorming out and you wouldn't know it, but any noise in the house just gets amplified like crazy.
It's like those Mystery/Thriller/Horror type movies in a scary scene it's always storming outside, and its always an open concept house where the killer/stalker is lurking.
Kinda reminds me of the movie The Glass House.
- Dontoewsmebro
- Das it Mein
-
- Dontoewsmebro
- Das it Mein
- Join Date: Apr 2014
- Posts: 15,467
- Rep Power: 200,016
-
08-16-2024, 12:15 PM
#24
We need to start building walls again
My house is sadly open… but that's really all there was around me
My house is sadly open… but that's really all there was around me
08-16-2024, 12:26 PM
#25
Cookingcels love an open plan cause they always eat out or get uber eats, real chefs need a separate space to craft their dishes that will not stink up the whole house.
Next time you see a rich fat ******* he's probably an openplancel
Next time you see a rich fat ******* he's probably an openplancel
**PER DEVS, LIBERTAS**
- miscbrah007
- Licenced to Netflix&Chill
-
- miscbrah007
- Licenced to Netflix&Chill
- Join Date: May 2014
- Location: Angus, United Kingdom (Great Britain)
- Age: 31
- Posts: 4,374
- Rep Power: 9,837
-
08-16-2024, 12:42 PM
#26
Open concept is for copers who want to pretend their house is bigger than it actually is. Removing interior walls does that for them as it makes the space appear larger.
08-16-2024, 12:44 PM
#27
We have something inbetween.
All of the downstairs rooms come off a central great hall and have oversized double doors or sliding walls. You can effectively open it out in to one large space, with partial walls dividing rooms, or close rooms off, depending on how you feel.
The great hall is double height with a mezzanine running around it, which all the bedrooms come off of.
All of the downstairs rooms come off a central great hall and have oversized double doors or sliding walls. You can effectively open it out in to one large space, with partial walls dividing rooms, or close rooms off, depending on how you feel.
The great hall is double height with a mezzanine running around it, which all the bedrooms come off of.
Screw nature; my body will do what I DAMN WELL tell it to do!
The only dangerous thing about an exercise is the person doing it.
They had the technology to rebuild me. They made me better, stronger, faster……
- DuracellBunny
- Has new batteries!
-
- DuracellBunny
- Has new batteries!
- Join Date: Nov 2005
- Posts: 13,211
- Rep Power: 232,273
-
08-16-2024, 04:00 PM
#28
Open floor plan = Job security…
.
.
08-16-2024, 04:19 PM
#29
Depends who you live with.
- aranadiscoteca
- Registered User
-
- aranadiscoteca
- Registered User
- Join Date: Mar 2015
- Posts: 7,469
- Rep Power: 40,578
-
08-16-2024, 04:36 PM
#30
I like rooms.
OLD MOVIE CREW
- Mr.PissShivers
- Shiverin' since '92
-
- Mr.PissShivers
- Shiverin' since '92
- Join Date: Nov 2009
- Age: 39
- Posts: 31,379
- Rep Power: 305,131
-
Bookmarks
- Digg
- del.icio.us
- StumbleUpon
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts