[ SECRET POST #4399 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4399 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Cassandra Clare & her books: TMI/TID/TDA]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Canadian ice dancers Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir]


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[Charmed]


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[Criminal Minds - season 4, episode 8 "Masterpiece"]


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[Tidying Up with Marie Kondo]











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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one who hates open layouts? Give me walls to put my furniture against, give me doors so I can go to my room and destress. I don't want to live in a space where I have to 'make rooms' by strategically placing couches and rugs and shit.

[(Anonymous)]

DA
I especially hate open kitchens. I generally hate food smell in textiles and with open kitchens, it's even more likely to get everywhere that has any fabric.

[(Anonymous)]

You're not alone. I'd absolutely hate it if my house was one giant open space that isn't divided into different areas. It's too damn noisy, there's no privacy, etc.

[philstar22]

I agree. Although, I like having enough room to move around in and work. I hate tiny kitchens and bedrooms. But i don't want everything open. I like having rooms and walls and counters.

[soldatsasha]

I read somewhere that open floorplans are actually (finally!) dropping in popularity. I guess bc they've been such a huge trend for so many decades, now buyers are getting sick of them.

I think they're an attempt to mimic something that works well if your home is either a mansion or a studio apartment. On one end of the scale, you can have huge open sight-lines and wide spaces while still maintaining privacy. On the other end, you want as much open space as you can get so you don't feel like you're living in a closet.

But for homes in the middle, like the current bog-standard American suburban house? The one with all the bedrooms coming right off the living room/kitchen/dining room combo? They suck.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah! Human beings need privacy!

[tabaqui]

I don't mind a kitchen that is accessible/viewable from a sitting/living room, since when you *do* have guests or family, everybody tends to congregate in the kitchen area. And i do like a kitchen with a view, sense cooking and doing dishes is boring as fuck, so gimme something to look at.

But yeah, i want *private* bedrooms, a private area to computer on, spaces where people are not going to see my every move.

Open floor plans are also fire hazards - closed doors save lives, and the temp difference between a fire in a room and the next room with no door/open door, and a fire in a room and the next room with a closed door is literally hundreds of degrees.

[(Anonymous)]

Open floor plans are also fire hazards

Wow, I hadn't though of that at all. Something to bear in mind.

[tabaqui]

The difference a closed door makes is huge. I had no clue until i started working at the fire department.

https://closeyourdoor.org/

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes. Totally closing all doors from now on.

[tabaqui]

YAY! My Chief'll be proud. :D

[(Anonymous)]

"Open plan" usually doesn't mean the bedroom(s) are open to the rest of the living space, unless it's a studio/efficiency apartment or some kind of loft/converted warehouse thing. For a single-family house and for a lot of apartments, it just means the "public" spaces (living, dining, kitchen) bleed together. It's not just a new thing - my parents' house was built in 1906 and the living room and this other room (probably meant to contain an upright piano) are connected to the foyer with big archways with no doors, and the living and dining rooms are also connected with a big archway to the point that there's barely any shared wall. They are still separate spaces as defined by the original architecture, rather than furniture and things, but cannot be shut off from one another. The kitchen has always remained a separate room with a door, despite multiple re-models over the years, and the other rooms have doors that shut.

[tabaqui]

Yes, I'm aware of what 'open plan' means. It might not be a brand new concept, but it is a *lot* more prevalent than it was fifty years ago. And even if there are no doors, the way the room are laid out helps keep fire and smoke (the bigger issue, most often) contained.

My house was built in 1935; there's no door between the kitchen and living room, but the way the walls are angled, and the way the bedrooms are off a hallway, means that smoke from a fire would be more contained and less likely to entire engulf the structure. Even less likely if the bedroom doors are shut.

Open-floor and all the synthetics we use now are some of the biggest issues facing firefighters and homeowners regarding safety. That and non-working or totally absent smoke detectors and a concerted effort on contractor's parts to keep sprinkler systems from being required.

https://community.nfpa.org/community/home-fire-sprinkler-initiative/blog/2018/06/25/why-a-homes-open-floor-plan-is-concerning-to-fire-safety-advocates

[(Anonymous)]

I hate them too. Maybe if you're the only one who lives in your house, but if you're sharing it with anyone, then no, give me privacy, thanks.