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The living room ate the dining room and den, and called it architecture.
means An open, double-height space near a house's entrance that combines living, dining, and sometimes family-room functions into one large room.
from 'Great room' borrows its name from the great hall of medieval and Tudor English manor houses — the central, soaring space where the household ate, entertained, and conducted business before homes split into specialized rooms. Modern builders revived the term in the later 20th century to market open-plan houses, reaching back to that old image of lordly scale to dignify what is, functionally, several rooms knocked into one.
- origin era
- Popularized in 1990s suburban McMansions
- the trick
- Combines living, dining, kitchen into one soaring space
- the catch
- Great acoustics for parties, terrible for hiding anything
- real estate math
- Adds perceived value without adding actual square footage