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• 1 Justin Bowers // Mar 14, 2008 at 11:59 am

  Hey! Is that you pushing the wall back there?

• 2 Joel // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:14 pm

  If he lets that big block slide all the way to the right he gets a tetris!

  I don’t get this. Why would you want to open up your bedroom to the living room?

• 3 vladcole // Mar 14, 2008 at 2:36 pm

  “Why would you want to open up your bedroom to the living room?”

  My bedroom is open to my living room because:

  1. it gives me a greater sense of space
  2. it allows me to use the bedroom + living room as a single entertainment space
  3. it lets more light into the bedroom (from the living room)

  The option to reconfigure your space on occasion also keeps the space feeling fresh and new.

• 4 Eric K // Mar 14, 2008 at 3:17 pm

  It’s probably done for zoning reasons — code requires a an exterior window for a true bedroom. So this is really just a divided loft space.

• 5 Joel // Mar 17, 2008 at 3:11 pm

  Let me run those reasons through the cynic machine:

  1. Get people to pay more for less space
  2. I don’t think I would want people romping around in my bedroom
  3. Two words: Bedroom window

  I’m not sure opening and closing a door counts as “reconfiguring space”. I have 8 inside doors in my house. Does that mean my house has 2^8 configurations?

• 6 nitsuj // Mar 18, 2008 at 8:05 am

  I’m with Joel on this one and not drinking the hipcoolmodern kool-aid. I open up my bedroom for entertainment space? Party for two, yes, party for ten, no.

  “I’m not sure opening and closing a door counts as “reconfiguring space”. I have 8 inside doors in my house. Does that mean my house has 2^8 configurations?”

  LOL

• 7 vc // Mar 19, 2008 at 1:38 pm

  Well, depends on your space really.

  Here’s the view from my bedroom with no movable wall in place (before we had any furniture): http://flickr.com/photos/vladcole/517266462/ Guests sitting in the living room tell me that they like it when I open the bedroom up. It gives longer vantage points and makes it feel much more spacious than when the walls are rolled into place.

  “Two words: Bedroom window”

  That was four words, which — coincidentally — happens to be the number of bedroom windows I have. I guess this thread just shows that we’ve all got different living preferences.

  “I don’t think I would want people romping around in my bedroom”

  I kind of like it. Am I deviant? Photo taken while partygoer sat on my bed:
  http://flickr.com/photos/vladcole/1094050265/

• 8 Aswin Suri // Mar 20, 2008 at 3:44 pm

  I like this because if you work from home you can use the main area to see clients and the dinning table as a conference table and close off the kitchen and bedroom. Great design if you ask me!

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