Home designs rarely stay forever. What looked good in the 60s looked dated in the 90s but might creep back around in the late 2020s. The biggest trend of modern architecture is no doubt open floor plans with fewer walls. But will it last?
The influence of the pandemic on our home life can’t be denied or understated, and anyone who tried conducting a meeting in the living room while their partner made a snack and their kid rushed through to gather materials for an online school project knows that open concept wasn’t all they thought it would be. There are things we still love about open concepts, though. The streamlined, sparse lines of modernism that reflect our ever-changing technological and social conveniences.