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   From: HapilyRetired@fakeaddress.com   
      
   On 1/29/2026 4:44 AM, T wrote:   
   > On 1/25/26 7:50 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.   
   >>   
   >   
   > My wife and I like it becasue we can talk to each other   
   > across the expanse.  Not to mention, she is easy on the   
   > eyes.  I will never go back to a closed floor plan.   
      
   To each, their own.  However, at least where we live, almost all newly   
   constructed high-rise condos and apartments are being built open plan   
   because it's substantially cheaper for the builder.  Traditional room   
   floor plans are almost exclusively confined to pre-2000 buildings.  We   
   wanted to find a newer building than where we bought to get the   
   advantage of higher efficiency thermal insulation, newer windows, etc.   
   However, the newer units we visited all had open floor plans and   
   relatively thin walls, floors and ceilings compared to the building   
   where we bought, built in 1990.  In 8+ years, we've never heard a peep   
   from upstairs, downstairs, next door or across the hall.  This building   
   has steel girder and poured concrete structural floors and excellent   
   acoustic insulation between common walls.  All hallways are carpeted.  I   
   can play my music system, including a subwoofer, as loud as I like and   
   when I asked them, none of my neighbors claim to have ever heard   
   anything.  Yeah, they don't build them like they used to because they   
   couldn't sell them at a competitive price and still make a profit.   
      
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