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Benefits of Including an Open Floor Plan in Your New Home

An open floor plan has a significant effect on the space, appeal, versatility, and lighting of your home’s interior living spaces.

When it comes to your home’s interior design, there are two standard options, an open floor plan, and a closed floor plan. Each layout has a significant effect on the space, appeal, versatility, and lighting of your home’s interior living spaces, amongst other things. Listed below are five benefits of including an open floor plan in the design of your new custom home.

Space

Open floor plans typically exclude or reduce the number of hallways, walls, and doors within your home. It creates a layout of larger open rooms that can serve multiple purposes allowing you to utilize the maximum available living space within your home’s interior.

Versatility

An open floor plan allows you to utilize living spaces in your home in various ways, creating multifunctional, flexible, and versatile rooms. Essentially an open layout in your home provides you with more available space allowing you to freely decorate and transforms rooms into spaces that accommodate your needs, including living rooms, offices, dining areas, and so much more.

Lighting

Many of the walls are either reduced in size or removed in an open floor plan. As a result, there’s an increased amount of natural light entering your home. In many custom homes with open floor plans, larger windows and glass doors are included, allowing for even more light to enter and reach greater depths in your home, increasing the appeal and space of your home’s interior.

Entertainment

Open floor plans make entertaining in your home much easier. Due to its versatility, lack of barriers, and inviting atmosphere, open floor plans are ideal spaces for hosting events, celebrations, and holidays with friends and families. Open floor plans make it easier for sound to travel and provide greater visibility, allowing you and guests to maneuver, communicate and socialize freely throughout designated areas in your home without feeling closed off or overcrowded.

Improved Energy Efficiency

Homeowners with open floor plans also tend to find noticeably lower utility bills. Often this is because a home with an open floor plan is easier to heat and cool, making your home more energy-efficient. For instance, when it’s hot outside, a single main area is much easier to keep cool than many smaller rooms.

Contact Accessible Home Builders Today

Here at Accessible Home Builders, we’re proud to say we’ve been building and remodeling homes since 1994. We’ve serviced Rehoboth Beach, Lewes, Selbyville, Millsboro, Georgetown, Laurel, and more communities within Delaware in that time. We work to guarantee a high level of professionalism, dedication, and the use of quality materials to ensure our customers have the home they deserve.

To get in touch with us, give us a call at our office at 302-663-0464, send us an email at info@accessiblehomebuilders.com or visit us in person at 28412 DuPont Blvd, #103 Millsboro, DE 19966. Follow us on FacebookTwitterLinked In, and YouTube to stay updated on what we’re up to next!

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