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 ...

They also tend to come with smaller, closed-off rooms — a far cry from the open floor plan model that has become so prevalent today. If you’re used to living in newer homes, it can be ...

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.

“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.

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.

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.

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 ...