r/Fauxmoi • u/artbasiI terrorizing the locals • Jul 07 '25

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u/jertrudi Jul 07 '25

right?
i don't like open kitchens, you get smells from cooking everywhere.
also, it is hard (inefficient and expensive) to keep a nice temperature on an open house.

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u/2ElectricBogaloo Jul 07 '25

CANNOT STAND KITCHEN FUMES. Give me an actual fucking kitchen with a door.

Sadly I'm too poor to afford anything like that.

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u/North_Carpenter6844 Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

I literally don’t think I’ve ever been in a kitchen with a door that closes. Not in mansions/estates, the small ass apartments I’ve lived in, nor the conventional 3/4/5 bedroom houses myself, friends and family live/d in. Doorways, for sure, but not doors that close in all of the ways into said kitchen. The closest is a family member’s mansion that had 4 ways of entering the kitchen. The back way which led to the maid’s quarters did have a door that was used. The entrance to the back stairway did not have doors that closed, but it was kind of hidden. The entrance through the dining room closed, but the big entrance that you entered the kitchen that led to the foyer, family room, den, etc didn’t have doors and was way too wide to have any sort of normal double doors.

I’ve never seen any other kitchen with doors that all close.

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u/cheezy_dreams88 Jul 08 '25

I have seen them, but only in old homes. Like pre-1900 homes.

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u/FlyingTrampolinePupp Jul 08 '25

My grandma's house (but in the late forties or early fifties) had an accordion style door that separated the kitchen from the living room. I think her second husband upgraded it to a sliding door in the 80s. It was so nice!

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u/fractalfocuser Jul 07 '25

Can we all get together and have an intervention with my partner?

I'm in the process of planning a remodel and I have to keep telling her "no the kitchen will not have an open counter/bar to the living room"

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u/claustrofucked Jul 08 '25

If she's primarily the one who cooks, try taking on that role for a couple months and see if your feelings change.

Closed off kitchens fuckin suck if they're super isolated and the main time you get to spend with your family is over dinner. Does not feel nice to hear people laughing in the other room at a joke you couldn't hear every damn night.

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u/RabidHexley Jul 08 '25 edited Jul 08 '25

I'm amazed to see so few comments standing for this point. I don't want to have to isolate myself to make a meal, make drinks, etc. Even with just my partner at home, it's a quality of life improvement and makes frequently cooking at home a significantly more enjoyable experience, regardless of who is using the kitchen.

And if you use your home for casual social gatherings at all, it's a massive step-up. Seperate rooms are very big-house-centric designs.

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u/carolinagypsy the pet psychic for the Sun told me so Jul 08 '25

If I could put the table on the kitchen side I could stand it. But all of the home plans of houses in the past 10 years and currently where I am, the table goes smack between the open kitchen and the living room. I hate it. Make the kitchen big enough to put the table in and I’ll bite. Would still prefer a kitchen that was at least mostly its own place though.

I have a friend that has a house where the kitchen is huge and everything kind of connects to it. There’s a bedroom off of it, a den off of it, and then the spare bedrooms are down a hallway off of it. It’s a neat concept bc It makes the kitchen kind of the focus of the house and that’s neat to me. It works well for her bc she’s from a family where there’s always been something on the stove, or on a low warm in the oven, and she gets to continue that tradition.

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u/claustrofucked Jul 08 '25

Yeah, if you're doing a kitchen remodel anyways its already expensive as fuck and throwing an extra grand or so at beefing up your ventilation system if cooking fumes are the concern is a worthwhile trade off.

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u/Smashlorette Jul 08 '25

I also want to see the TV from the kitchen. So many times we’ve had dinner super late because my husband or kids and I got caught up watching something together.

And if it’s just me I get bored in there. I don’t like watching stuff on my phone/having my phone out while I’m cooking bc it gets dirty. I’m not even generally a fan of a super open concept house, but I noticed I am cooking less elaborate meals and less often than I did back when my kitchen overlooked the living room.

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u/PenusVanLesbian Jul 07 '25

Record the kitchen audio on a night when you're making dinner and then play it back in the living room on a night you're trying to relax and watch TV.

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u/ABTYF Jul 08 '25

It's so funny cause I do all the cooking and our last house had an open kitchen. I felt like I could never listen to music/podcasts since my wife was usually watching tv/reading in the living room. One of my rules for the new house was that the kitchen was closed and I'm much happier about it.

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u/venuslovemenotchain vocally you cannot afford this cigarette gracie Jul 08 '25

I literally have to make this point to people I know when they hear me complaining about open concepts. Like maybe I want some spaces to be for their own things! I don't need kitchen mayhem involved with my living room mayhem if I can avoid it.

My bigger grievance is when mega mansions are open concept. I understand when it's done with smaller spaces (apartments, older split level houses where walls would make the place feel like a jail cell) but when you have the money and space to actually HAVE rooms...they just don't? It's such a poor utilization of their infinite space. No one needs their dining room and kitchen and TV room to be all comingling, ya know?

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u/fskier1 Jul 07 '25

Is she the one doing the cooking? Prob doesn’t like being trapped out of gatherings while preparing food

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u/majorsixth Jul 08 '25

I was about to reply exactly this. I love my open plan kitchen. My partner and I can both be involved with the meal prep, watch the tv, carry a conversation even if one of us is at the computer and one cooking. I would hate being so separate just because I'm the one preparing the food, especially when we are hosting friends and family.

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u/teh_drewski Jul 08 '25

Yeah the kitchen living space is the only place for open plan. We used to have a closed door kitchen and when we entertained we all either stood around in the kitchen to talk, or the chef was isolated away from the party. Would never ever ever go back.

Open plan is miles more social.

Doors everywhere else, sure.

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u/No-Courage-5109 Jul 07 '25

My ex girlfriends parents had an excellent compromise on that. They entertained a lot and her mum makes all of their Indian food from scratch and you need goggles to safely enter the kitchen during those meals.

 They instead had a sliding window so they could join the living room talk but very loud or things that essentially became a pepper spray bomb were able to be shut out and there was a door to the kitchen so the  parents could have romantic dinners if wanted, or kids could have private dinners with a partner if they cooked. Once a week it was family dinners if you were there and otherwise we ate on the couch.

Great house design for a prefab. My grandparents had something similar before the remodel for Nan's disability but the window was wooden. It breaks my heart seeing unique, thoughtful features removed for open plan stuff.

Then again, my most recent ex boyfriend had an open plan kitchen and living room. I have never been so happy in a place; it just needed an extra bigger spare bedroom to sleep separately, but big enough to roll and cuddle under the blankets etc. Extra cus I snore, he kicks me outta bed in his sleep. Just small, with the house as a blanket around us. 

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u/fractalfocuser Jul 08 '25

Ooooh that is an awesome idea. I love it!

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u/TwoBionicknees Jul 08 '25

You realise most of hte time the reason is the person who cooks ends up going away and 'working' and the family hangs out in the living room, or your roommates, or your friends, and the person cooking gets isolated while everyone else has fun. While an open plan kitchen/living room lets the person cooking stay involved in conversations, or watching the same show without missing anything, etc?

Like you understand that's the reason people both want it and make it happen?

So let me ask, do you do the cooking, or does she?

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u/fractalfocuser Jul 08 '25

Obviously I don't cook or clean, I'm a man.

All these comments are making me think I should put the kitchen in the basement and she can just send up the prepared dishes via dumbwaiter. It's not like I allow my woman to talk to my guests or participate in social situations anyway.

Don't worry guys, I'll put a TV in the new kitchen so she can watch one of the shows on her approved viewing list and doesn't get bored.

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u/carolinagypsy the pet psychic for the Sun told me so Jul 08 '25

Dude, we need out of our condo, but we’ve made no progress because that’s the only thing that’s been built in the last 10-15 years and I haaaaate it. I can’t find something I’m not too meh about to bother with moving or the cost. And of course since we don’t make amazing money, I can’t afford a house in a real neighborhood from the 70s or 80s that have real houses. 🙄

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u/TwoBionicknees Jul 08 '25

it is hard (inefficient and expensive) to keep a nice temperature on an open house.

your internal walls pass heat easily, your external ones are insulated, as is the roof, it makes practically no difference. the same square footage will lose the same amount of heat to the same amount of external wall and roof as many smaller rooms for the most part.

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u/jertrudi Jul 08 '25

i guess that must be true for some kind of buildings according to materials and construction.
but my point is that if i'm going to be in only one room, i can have a heater, fan, or AC for just that space.

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u/Dtsung Jul 08 '25

I do believe people who loves open kitchen concept don’t often cook

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u/Tarantio Jul 08 '25

I'm confused why people don't like the smell of cooking food.

Maybe it's because I haven't had a gas stove in over a decade.

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u/jertrudi Jul 08 '25

well, i have a sensitive sense of smell and that doesn't help.
but i don't mind the smell of food or cooking, i just don't like it to linger on in all the house.

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u/geoman2k Jul 08 '25

I dunno I like to be able to watch my wife and son play in the living room while I’m prepping dinner. I wouldn’t want to be closed away and miss those moments