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   From: HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com   
      
   On 1/26/2026 9:31 AM, Ed P wrote:   
   > On 1/26/2026 8:54 AM, Retirednoguilt wrote:   
   >> On 1/25/2026 11:43 PM, Ed P wrote:   
   >>> On 1/25/2026 10:50 PM, andy wrote:   
   >>>> No guest wants to walk into your house, see, and smell your kitchen.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> The open floor plan is just bullshit to reduce construction costs.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Kitchen oil residue and fumes screw up electronics, paintings, photographs   
   >>>> and anything paper.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That's what you get with an open floor plan.   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> Not at all.  Perhaps you are a slob and don't keep it clean or have   
   >>> ventilation while cooking.   
   >>   
   >> My biggest gripe about open floor plans is noise - clatter from the   
   >> kitchen area, overhearing a phone conversation not involving me, hearing   
   >> my spouse's iPad playing a podcast through those tinny sounding   
   >> speakers, etc. etc.  We told our real estate agent that it was an   
   >> absolute non-starter when we decided to move from our single family   
   >> detached 4 bedroom + den home on 3 levels and started looking for a   
   >> condo to move to.   
   >   
   > I like it open.  Most people have portable phones so the conversation   
   > can be moved away easily.  No pod cast here, but music on most of the   
   > day and is easily heard if you are reading in the living room or making   
   > coffee in the kitchen.   
   >   
   > I'm sitting in the living room.  My kitchen has an 8' slider and from   
   > here I have a nice view of the outdoors.  I don't want a wall to   
   > obstruct it.   
   >   
   > I can also sit and watch the news and see the timer on the air fryer and   
   > microwave if they are in use.   
   >   
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   We have a 4 handset cordless phone providing service for our "land line"   
   so whether someone in the open floor plan units we inspected would be   
   using their cell phone or one of our cordless handsets, the noise factor   
   would be identical.  If the kitchen slider existed and was closed in   
   most open plan units we inspected, it would shut out all potential   
   natural light requiring us turn on lights to see what we were doing in   
   the kitchen.   
      
   Our current condo (traditional floor plan) has the kitchen and kitchen   
   nook in a straight line with the nook facing a large floor to ceiling   
   bay window with the main bay facing directly east with one of the side   
   bays facing northeast and the other facing southeast.  Except when very   
   overcast, we never need to use lights when working in the kitchen or   
   eating our meals at the table in the nook.   
      
   I'm an only child and grew up in a quiet household in a quiet   
   neighborhood.  I'm easily distracted by noise and am used to having my   
   own room.  Same/same for my wife.   
      
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