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Originally Posted by ledhedsymbols
To start, I am not a home improvement show watcher. My family's current home is a typical 3 bed 1 bath rambler "starter home." We've been here for a long time and as the kids grow up it's become far too small.
It has as expected a small galley kitchen which is mostly walled off, small dining room and small living room. Our plan is to build a 20x22ft rec room off the back of the garage and push the back of the house out ten feet. That will give us a much larger master BR and a second bath. It will also double the size of the kitchen and dining room, which seems a bit too large in proportion to the living room. We plan to go more "open concept" and take the wall between LR and kitchen down to bar height. We also plan to have a good sized island in the middle of the kitchen with the sink, a cooktop and other bits. After living in a small box, I'm looking forward to having the room.
I know it's not to everyone's taste, but since we are effectively creating a huge living room/rec room I look forward to having an open area in the common spaces. The extra bath will be awesome with my wife and girls in teen years. We will also have space for an office area in the new enlarged master bedroom.
Everyone is different I suppose, so if you don't like the concept don't do it. For me/us we are looking forward to having the open space in our house after living in 1000 sf for 15 years!
Micah
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I am with you on this unless my house is 3000Sq'+ then open, big family room to hang out with kids doing their school project on a large table is a huge plus.
Here are some open concepts we have done over the past couple years. All of them have had their structure walls remove to create a large kitchen. All are two stories 1800-2000 sq' homes.
We even like open concept baths. The stone wall with a bench of the master bath in one of my rental. The checker floor bath is for an WW2 vet who's wheel chair bound and needs in home care so we created a curbless shower with controls that are easy to get at with enough room for helper to get around without being too tight. I always remove the big-O-wall between toilet and shower. I can never understand a wall is needed there?
The blue tile kitchen was half the size Spanish built in 1923. This was one of my flips, taken about 8 years ago. Noticed my new 993 TT bumper cover off to the side. The other, with the Milwaukee box on the counter is for a client. structural wall was removed to create the large ktichen for his young family (two ref. There are two huge Parallam, 18' holding up the second floor. If not for that, kitchen would have been half the size.