The Dumbest Renovation Fads

The Dumbest Renovation Fads

A remodeling trend may look good on paper, but it may not make your home more livable - or more valuable.

 

The great Great-Room Craze of the 1980s was all about openness: Why should the kitchen be so removed from the other living spaces? Indeed, why should there be any distinction between one public room living, dining, den and so on) and another? Everyone should happily congregate in one free-flowing space.

 

Sadly, the result is usually a great big mess. Think about it:

 

You know what you get when cooking, video-game playing, conversation and television viewing occur in the same space? Noise. Lots of noise.

 

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