(BPT) - Talk to any contemporary architect, remodeler, interior designer or homeowner, and you’ll find one of the hot topics these days is “flow.” Gone are the days of floor plans burdened by closed-off, claustrophobic rooms, each designed around specific functions.
“Today’s new homes and home remodeling projects embrace far more open designs, allowing for unprecedented levels of flexibility. These floor plans permit gatherings to spill out of the dining room, family room or living room into adjoining spaces with no loss of sociability, or take on a welcome aura of privacy when needed,” says Michael Myers, Marketing director for Johnson Hardware, manufacturers of pocket, sliding and bifold door hardware. They also enable interior spaces to serve new purposes with each new day. The result is a new kind of American home, one where rooms assume different personalities as occasions and spatial requirements change.
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