I watch these shows and sometimes I think what will flippers be doing to houses 50 years from now?? will the open concept be totally out of style and they will be saying wow all this open, it's so bad we will put a wall here and here!!!!!
and that island has to go!!!!!
what do you all think??
I think open concept will always be big because people love having more space. The only major differences I could see are maybe more green energy stuff like solar power and more futuristic technology. Otherwise you can't really do a whole lot more with layouts I don't think. Maybe there'll be a room with sleep pods and a teleportation pad :P
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The way the Earth is wasting away...might be on a whole new planet,or out in space.
shareAnd my goodness, this kitchen looks like something out of a restaurant! Get rid of all that horrid stainless steel and make it look more like a home. And put up some wall board! The previous designer must have run out of money- she left the shiplap exposed!
shareI really think that future closet spaces will be huge. Not just walk-ins, but entire small dressing rooms with separate areas for shoes, pants, shirts, mirrors, etc. Our current closets will look like a joke in comparison. Future builders will sacrifice dining rooms and living area footage to increase closet spaces. That's my guess.
shareI was actually talking with my fiance about this yesterday. It's often really hard to see problems with current trends at the time that they're popular. In hindsight it often seems obvious.
I think that the open concept will fall out of favor at some point, at least to the extent that some designers have taken the concept where some main floors have virtually no walls what so ever.
"Close up that Kitchen, we don't want to see the kitchen from the dining room and family room!"
Islands seem like they won't be going anywhere, unless more compact storage becomes enough of a trend that the extra space that an island often supplies becomes obsolete.
Maybe more people will want bath/shower combinations and walk-in showers or bathrooms with a separate shower and bath will fall out of favor?
Wallpapering everything comes into style?
Popcorn ceilings become all the rage again? Was it ever popular? Before this show I think I'd only ever seen popcorn ceilings in hotels/motels.
No, not the mind probe!
I think the open kitchen is more about convenience more than style. Women don't like to feel shut out from the rest of the house when cooking, especially if they're entertaining. And if they have kids they want to be able to watch them. I'm a mom and I feel like i live in my kitchen. I couldn't imagine not being able to keep an eye on my one year old whenever I'm in there.
Wallpaper will probably always go in and out of style. It's already starting to make a little bit of a comeback.
I hope to God the popcorn ceilings never come back in style (I think that's from like the 80's?) we have it in our house and are scraping it off room by room lol.
I always wonder more about painting over brick and stuff like that. I wonder if people will be kicking themselves in a decade for covering up original brick and stone.
The thing I don't like about "open concept" is the inability to close off areas that are "a mess". How do people with small children, teenagers, or who are themselves clutter bugs, deal with things like parents/in-laws calling, "We're in the neighborhood and would like to stop by."
Or, how about energy saving? Close the doors of the rooms that are not in constant use (our living room, den, family room, playroom all had doors that could be closed), and keep the registers only slightly open.
Or, the kitchen is still a mess after the dinner party that ended close to midnight, and the carpet cleaner arrived exactly when they said they would, at 8am. No way to close the kitchen door, since all they need to see is the carpeted areas, which the kitchen isn't.
Or, during and after your dinner party, the whole house smells like chicken tikka masala.
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When we bought our starter home, it was built in 1960 and it was basically a time capsule fixer upper, but at the time, we bought what we could afford in order to not be house poor. The kitchen had turquois countertops with gold speckles in it and the bathroom had a pink toilet, and pink tile. They were both absolutely hideous. When we bought this house, I wanted it turn key ready after doing all that work. Took 2 years of looking to find everything on our wish list, but I now love walking through my home. I think bigger laundry rooms and mud rooms will be popular for people with children in the future. My laundry room is the size of my kitchen and I LOVE LOVE it! I have upper and lower cabinetry with laminate countertops and a regular double sink next to my W/D. It actually makes me like doing laundry now. I just hope turquois countertops and avocado appliances never make a comeback trend, it would be one I would never participate in :)
shareWe avoid trends altogether and follow our own eclectic style. We don't care if others dislike what we do, though they eventually admit they like our quirky, colorful decor. We work from home, so we emphasize our office and studio spaces. We're reworking our home gym at the moment; it features purple and black rubber flooring. We don't create a house with others in mind, but rather to suit ourselves.
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I agree with you. Trends come and go. My husband and I intend for the house we bought to be our forever home. We are not having children so the entire space is for us and our little furkid. I am not a fan of open concept. I like divided rooms. The only rooms that flow in our house are the living/dining room. The kitchen is separate which I love. Our real estate agent which is now a friend always brought up resell value. We would remind him through we need to live in the house and make it our own. Decor is something we will live with. If we resell which is probably not going to happen then the buyer would have make it their own.
shareIf shiplap ever goes out of style poor old Joey is going to die.
shareOpen concept may be moderated as people decide they'd rather not try to watch TV or listen to music the old fashioned way (sans earbuds) while trying to screen out noise from the kitchen. So a wall here and there may reappear. Every parent working in a kitchen wants to keep an eye on young children but kids grow up pretty quick.
I hate breakfast bars. Grew up with one dining room table and chairs and we all ate every single meal there. Why does anyone need two places to eat? The more open concept that gets built the more I think country kitchens will become more popular. Eating near the kitchen with a fireplace in the room, close to windows,has a classic feel of comfort to me.
The thing that amuses me the most is space "for the kids to play". Kids don't want to stay in their carefully designed playroom more than 10-15 minutes. After that they have something to show you, followed by the need for a adult referee to settle one of their endless disputes, followed by the need to tell an adult how bored there are and ask when they can eat.
We're currently working with a designer on a remodel and he keeps trying to show us drawings where he's opened the house up from one end to the other even though we've told him we want to be able seal off the north end public rooms with doors from the rest of the house for reasons of privacy and quiet. It's not that he's resistant or bullheaded, it's just that he's kind of young and can't seem to help defaulting to what he knows how to do, and what, apparently, every client he's had so far has wanted him to do. We find it funny and enjoy working with him on this and previous projects, but can't help wondering if he'll ever show his pix of our finished project to future clients.
I don't get special playrooms. When I was a kid I had my bedroom, which is where all my toys and stuff were. I played there, or in the living room, or in the yard. When I was done with a toy, I put it back in my room. It was no big deal and it worked fine.
shareIt'll be orange formica and avocado green appliances again.
sharelol I agree. My family doesn't need open concept. Everybody is loud, and separating the spaces is paramount to sanity during the holidays.
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