23 October

This is one of the main reasons I've never really liked open plan as a design, and hard floors. The acoustics. So many modern homes are echo chambers, it can become exhausting as well as loud. It can look good, but as the article says, that's the problem, it's based on visuals and not practicalities. I saw a woman interviewed on TV the other day who was begging to have a separate kitchen back, so there wasn't constant noise crossing between the kitchen and her living room. But each to their own, just my taste.