When you picture peak American luxury, do you envision large, sprawling living spaces? For years the open-concept floor plan popularized by HGTV — which combines kitchen, dining and living spaces into ...

Home with open-concept living room and kitchen - Sl-f/Getty Images Tour a home built in the '90s and you're bound to see an open floor plan. The layout started trending in the 1950s when families ...

The open concept main floor plan is alive and well on HGTV. But there is a deeper reason to why every show on the network uses it. While open concept main floors might sound good in theory — ...

Cleveland — 17 minutes - that's how long you had to escape in a house fire 30 years ago. Now - you have three to four minutes. A company that conducts fire safety testing says part of the reason is ...

When Red Seal Homes designed its new $700,000 townhomes planned for a hilltop near Nashville’s Fairgrounds, it added something that you won’t find in most recently built homes. More interior walls.

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After months of 24/7 work from home parenting, some home buyers aren’t so sure the open floor plan works anymore. (Getty/iStockphoto/monkeybusinessimages) For many ...

For some American families, one kitchen is apparently not enough. What is wrong with having just one kitchen? Well, people cook in kitchens, and when they cook in kitchens, they make messes, and then, ...

With a clear message to the "cube" culture, open floor plans have come to dominate not only startups but large corporate organizations as well. Facebook, for one, has the largest open floor plan in ...