Comments on: Trend watch: the great room http://cultureby.com/2004/10/trend_watch_the.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Thu, 17 May 2012 21:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: I Love Everything http://cultureby.com/2004/10/trend_watch_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-7228 I Love Everything Tue, 12 Jul 2005 03:16:12 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1102#comment-7228 <strong>"The Great Room" WTF?</strong> OK, I kind of get the idea of the "great room" for multi-use settings, an open floor plan is very Wrightian in itself, but why does it have to be 2 floors high? I am trying to research the etomology--this article compares great rooms to the medieval h... “The Great Room” WTF?

OK, I kind of get the idea of the “great room” for multi-use settings, an open floor plan is very Wrightian in itself, but why does it have to be 2 floors high? I am trying to research the etomology–this article compares great rooms to the medieval h…

]]> By: lenore http://cultureby.com/2004/10/trend_watch_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-7227 lenore Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:47:10 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1102#comment-7227 great room contemplater, please contact me. i'm a columnist at the new york daily news writing about the great room and gigantic houses in general, but on a tight deadline. so email soon! thanks -- Lenore skenazy great room contemplater, please contact me. i’m a columnist at the new york daily news writing about the great room and gigantic houses in general, but on a tight deadline. so email soon! thanks — Lenore skenazy

]]> By: lenore http://cultureby.com/2004/10/trend_watch_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-7226 lenore Mon, 21 Mar 2005 15:36:24 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1102#comment-7226 great room contemplater, please contact me. i'm a columnist at the new york daily news writing about the great room and gigantic houses in general, but on a tight deadline. so email soon! thanks -- Lenore skenazy great room contemplater, please contact me. i’m a columnist at the new york daily news writing about the great room and gigantic houses in general, but on a tight deadline. so email soon! thanks — Lenore skenazy

]]> By: Brian Hawkins http://cultureby.com/2004/10/trend_watch_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-7225 Brian Hawkins Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:12:25 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1102#comment-7225 I have mixed feelings about the great room. My family moved from a medium-sized split level into a large ranch-style house with a great room in the middle when I was 14. The design does enable families to be "alone together"...but it can make being truly alone rather difficult. Even though the new house was nearly twice as big as the old one (in terms of square footage), I had much less privacy. Which was kind of a drag from ages 14-18. What's funny is that since I've moved out, it irritates me <i>much</i> more when I go home for a visit. If the TV or radio is on in the great room (or the kitchen, with which it communicates) there is almost no place in the house where it cannot be heard. As most of the activity in the house centers around those rooms, it is rarely quiet..I guess if you're used to the noise, it's OK, but since I've lived on my own for a long time, and now with a partner who also likes a quiet house, it's hard to tolerate. I have mixed feelings about the great room. My family moved from a medium-sized split level into a large ranch-style house with a great room in the middle when I was 14.

The design does enable families to be “alone together”…but it can make being truly alone rather difficult. Even though the new house was nearly twice as big as the old one (in terms of square footage), I had much less privacy. Which was kind of a drag from ages 14-18.

What’s funny is that since I’ve moved out, it irritates me much more when I go home for a visit. If the TV or radio is on in the great room (or the kitchen, with which it communicates) there is almost no place in the house where it cannot be heard. As most of the activity in the house centers around those rooms, it is rarely quiet..I guess if you’re used to the noise, it’s OK, but since I’ve lived on my own for a long time, and now with a partner who also likes a quiet house, it’s hard to tolerate.

]]> By: Ennis http://cultureby.com/2004/10/trend_watch_the.html/comment-page-1#comment-7224 Ennis Tue, 19 Oct 2004 17:03:17 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=1102#comment-7224 You must have been in an old part of CT where they still had sidewalks ;) In a gated community in other parts of the country, the local security would come by and ask who you were, and where you were going. I recall, but don't have the cite for this, that there are towns in CA (California, nor Canada) were zoning prohibits sidewalks. People don't draw their drapes b/c they don't expect anybody to be walking by! You must have been in an old part of CT where they still had sidewalks ;) In a gated community in other parts of the country, the local security would come by and ask who you were, and where you were going. I recall, but don’t have the cite for this, that there are towns in CA (California, nor Canada) were zoning prohibits sidewalks.

People don’t draw their drapes b/c they don’t expect anybody to be walking by!

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