If you’ve toured a newly built model home recently, you may have noticed a few things missing: a formal living room or ... contemporary interiors with open floor plans. Now that new home sales ...

Open floor plans are an alternative to traditional ... cooking odors and debris that spread through the living spaces.

Open floor plans that make it easy to move through primary living and entertaining areas have been popular for decades. Open ...

In the open-plan living area, a terracotta-hued strip of micro ... Fréderic Louis opted for a more subtle terrazzo for the floor in the kitchen of House Mellinet, which shares the same room ...

Open-concept floor plans are becoming ... room to separate it from the dining area, or you can use a console table to act as a barrier that breaks up the living area and the kitchen.

That is why one company, Schumacher Homes of Akron, Ohio, has a fresh new design on offer: a house with an open floor plan, with its kitchen, dining area, and living room all flowing into one another.

“In my experience, the vast majority of buyers do [still] prefer the open floor plan, because we’re all living much more casually,” said Nicole Hechter, a New York City-based Corcoran agent.

The open concept main floor plan ... games in the living room, everyone in the kitchen has to hear it. And that fish you’re cooking? The smell will permeate the entire living area.

A perfect case in point is in the prime real estate area between Tremont ... "We have a completely open floor plan, so the kitchen, dining, living rooms, all have unobstructed views of the West ...

Open floor plans that make it easy to move through primary living and entertaining areas have been popular for decades. Open concept floor plans join the dining room, kitchen and living (great ...