When you are looking to renovate your home or a house that you just bought it is a good idea to know what floorplan best fits you. One of the most common and modern ways to lay out a house is to use the open floor plan concept. This is not a plan that has always been used and older homes have each room in the house closed off and separate form each other. When people started to realize that natural light and flow are a great addition to a home the open concept took over. If you have a home that was not built with an open concept plan in mind you can still create one. The way that it is created would require you to take on a home renovation. It is important to know what happens and what the open concept means to your home. Anytime Remodeling outlines how to create an open floor concept with home renovation.
Make a Plan
The first thing that you need to do is to make a plan on how to create the open floor plan. An open concept is something that is to create space in the main living area of your home. The space should not be separated with walls that create a division. There is usually a dining room, living room, kitchen and more in the main living area. Often times the home plan is created so that each of these areas are defined and separate. The problem is that this will cause the space to look smaller and not have an open flow. The plan should include where you want to move walls out and how to allow the rooms to flow into each other. Once you know what you want you want to make sure that you talk a professional about how that can come to fruition.
Can the Walls Be Moved?
The walls in the house need to be looked at to see if they are a load bearing wall. If they are a wall that is considered load bearing it needs to be treated differently than a standard wall. If you want that particular wall moved a beam may need to stay in place or it has to be reinforced to stay within the code for your area. The walls can be taken out but you want to make sure that you have a plan to make sure the rooms all flow together.
How to Create Flow
You can still create separate areas while using an open concept. The way that it is done is with the décor and design that you use. You can use subtle changes in the color paint that you choose to make a line between the living room and dining room. To continue the flow of the space most people choose to use a single flooring option that goes seamlessly into each and every room. This will allow each of the spaces to flow together and create the illusion of a larger space.
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