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7 Advantages of Modern Houses with Open Floor Plans

Modern houses are known for their free-flowing, open floor plans. Open-concept design is a highly desirable feature in today's new homes. Here's why everyone wants an open concept design.

Open concept home design is when no walls and doors interrupt the space, and everything merged into a large open space.

When a home buyer walks into an open concept home design, they feel they are not trapped or confined. The interior space flows.

The idea of having an open concept home design is to create a sense of freedom inside the house.

Here are seven advantages of an open concept floor plan.

1. Make the smaller space feel even more prominent.

Why? There's no walls, and there's no doors. So even a small room feels expanded.

2. Entertaining guests is a breeze.

You no longer have to be in one room cooking while everyone else is having fun. With an open concept, you are in the kitchen, and your guest, your family, you can chat while you're doing your chores. It creates a sense of mobility in the house, and it creates freedom.

3. Better traffic flow.

Obviously, without any walls and doors that go open and close, they move freely in the house. The traffic, the flow of people, is better. From the grand foyer to the patio, to the family room, the dining room went into an office through the kitchen. You don't have to open doors and go around walls. You move freely.

4. Shared light.

Some rooms are enclosed with walls and doors, and sometimes there's no light coming from the outside. Maybe from a small window. In an open concept, when you take away the walls and leave the space available. The natural light from the windows fills the house.

5. Improved real estate value.

In today's market, having an open floor plan is desired by most of the new home buyers. And if you have to have your house resell for whatever reason, if you have an open floor plan versus another home without an open floor plan, you have the edge, your home value goes up.

6. Layout flexibility.

Again, without walls and doors is easy to reconfigure rooms. It's easy to say, "Well, my dining room is gonna be this way, and my family room is gonna be this way," because there are no partitions. You determine what is right for you and your family, and you choose the space for that furniture according to your needs. 

I will give you an example. Most of the complaints from people that are moving into the new home, is they have this expansive family sofa. It doesn't fit in this room because the room designated to be their family room is not big enough for that sofa. But when you have a modern home with an open concept, that sofa will fit anywhere.

7. Spaces can be used as a multifunctional room.

You determine what this space is right for your family. If this space is open, a space for the living room, for the family room, for a gym, for a homeschool study, for an office, you determine what is suitable for your family. You have space. You decide what goes in it.