For the past few decades (or more), open-plan layouts have dominated ... Or, to design a small kitchen floor plan, an opening from kitchen to dining room that can be closed off with shutters ...

Open concept floor plans join the dining room, kitchen and living (great) room into a communal space where sight lines are maximized and walls are minimal. According to JJones Design Co., the ...

As such, the previously widely accepted belief that formal dining rooms were a thing of the past is now attracting a steady ...

Given that the contemporary family often requires two incomes to afford the mortgage on such a home anyway, it’s no ... great room with second-floor gallery and flanks an open-plan dining ...

This space gives you the chance to add flexibility back into your floor plan without knocking down a single wall.

For example, moving the dining table out of the bay window into the center of the great room did wonders. It now anchors the open floor plan and divides the kitchen from the living area.

By Ronda Kaysen At some point, the previous owners of my house decided to take down the wall separating the living room from the dining room ... toward an open-concept floor plan — where ...

A lot has been written - and critiqued - about the open floor ... dining room, forming one large multipurpose space - a very practical asset for houses with smaller areas. Kitchens were no longer ...

But the presumed death of the open floor plan may ... living, dining, and cooking space, people do need a space to retreat to that is peaceful and quiet—maybe even a zen room or zen den.” ...

designing loneliness into American floor plans. If dining space keeps dying, the U.S. might not have a chance to get it back. The apex predator of the dining room is the “great room”—a ...

The 3,070-square-foot home opens to a first floor made roomy with 9-foot ceiling height. The foyer has a flex room/office space to one side, and the formal dining room, made open with square ...