Millennials and open floor plans

@Lightbrite
Mrs. CTL is a designer/builder/realtor
I asked her your question…………..
This is true of Generation Xers
She has found that Millenials:
#1 are less apt to buy, they are swamped with student debt
#2 tend to entertain at restaurants, not their homes and don’t want the large entertaining spaces
#3 find security in compartmentalization>>>goodbye Great Room and breakfast bar leading from kitchen to family room. Hello formal dining room, a kitchen that is closed off so guests don’t see the mess and smell what’s cooking while visiting

The days of the McMansions are over, house size has been decreasing for a decade. Millenials don’t want to care for 2-5 acres of land and a 5 Bedroom 5 bath, 3 car garage home.

Mrs. CTL and I have 5 children, all are married. No child has more than 4 children (so far). Only the youngest who just married is living in a house with an open floor plan, and she didn’t choose it, we gave her the use of MIL’s home next door, as we moved MIL in with us this year for health reasons. She is the almost millenial, born in 1997. She is already asking about renovating the house, closing off the kitchen and creating a formal dining room.

I wholesale dismiss this entire idea of generational personality theory.

Open floor plans are stupid. If someones is being noisy in the kitchen, you can’t concentrate anywhere in like 60% of the house.

@Joseph
Nothing of what I said is because some millenials live in large cities.
Mrs. CTL and I live in suburban Connecticut. This is where she does business, not in large cities. Tons of Millenials live here and commute to NYC, that’s why Fairfiled County is made up of so many bedroom communities. Many towns still have minimum multi-acreage requirements for single family homes (something that makes it tough for Frum people).
Our neighborhood is older and has only a 1/2 acre requirement (although we have 2+ acres), three blocks away starts newer developments that have 3 acre minimum zoning.

Homes with open floor plans are difficult to heat in the winter and cool off in the summer.
Just one drafty window or door can allow all the heated or air conditioned air to escape.