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Open-Plan and Broken-Plan Living

Do you live in an open-plan or broken-plan home? Although not seen as the default home type in Britain, with an enclosed ‘four walls, one door’ approach to each room in our home ruling supreme, the open and broken room type structural layouts that can be implemented into a home design have the potential to provide a new outlook on home Living.

At Frances Hunt, we know how much the style and architectural design of our homes are of most importance, being a delicate factor to get right when it comes to ensuring we offer ourselves the right vibe for our home living.

What’s the difference between open-plan and broken-plan living?

Open-plan living is to reduce enclosed areas within your home through the removal of walls, transforming your home into a more spacious and brighter place to spend your time. With open-plan living, everything and everyone in your home will have a now more muted type of privacy as the kitchen, lounge and dining room end off commonly being merged into one room – with only the bathroom and sometimes the bedroom now blocked off. The open-plan type of living can commonly be seen as a similarity between its counterpart: studio living, except seen with a more well-defined style – and without any more than the four surrounding walls.

The broken-plan living is similar to open-plan living in which it transforms your home into a more spacious and brighter place, but features more divides within the property such as shelves crossing the room, half walls, pillars and plinths to create specific divides. As with open-plan living, the objective of broken-plan living is to create a living space that features minimum to no doors within. Unlike an open-plan room layout, you have more opportunities to lock things you don’t want to see away, whilst ensuring areas of the closed-plan provide some privacy for other members of the household.

Open-plan Living – Advantages and disadvantages

As with every type of home living layout, there are advantages to disadvantages to each that may present themselves. With some room layouts being more challenging than others, certain layouts might have more disadvantages that’ll end up stacking against their advantages, but the advantages they may offer could be exceptional for a home.

Open-plan living provides an individual with a natural and social setting that sees each room interlink fluidly, dramatically increasing the natural light visible throughout the room and making a room seem much bigger than it actually is. This type of room setting is key to maintaining great socialisation with your guests, as you can be cooking in the kitchen whilst your guests rest in your living areas.

Disadvantages to open-plan living include if you’re developing a home from a regular layout into an open-plan layout, you’re likely to find yourself paying out a lot for the development which could involve a lot of problems – such as ensuring the structural integrity of the building whilst transforming the room to this new change. Another disadvantage to open-plan living is that the realisation of noise and smell around you and in your home will be increased. Without any walls or doors to divide the various rooms within the home, private conversations ‘in the kitchen’ won’t be possible – and nor will avoiding the smell of a cooked meal! Maintaining heat within an open-plan room can also be quite a problem, as heat tends to accumulate when rooms are smaller with fewer areas to escape to.

Broken-plan Living – Advantages and disadvantages

A step back from the extremes of an open-plan design is broken-plan living, offering more of a divide within a home without completely boxing off rooms with four walls and a door.

Broken-plan living offers many advantages from its open-plan counterpart, allowing a sense of privacy to be implemented into the home. As a broken-plan opts to use the likes of shelves crossing the room, half walls, pillars and plinths to create specific divides instead of full walls or no walls, you’re able to get the best of both worlds by still maintaining an airy outlook on the room as a whole whilst too getting an array of advantages that an open-plan design brings along with it. This room plan theme also provides a place to hide those dirty plates and unwashed clothes, with the implementations of divides into the room offering a solution to help guests define where each room ends – preventing individuals from dropping off their dirty plates on a lobby table that most definitely isn’t the kitchen.

The first major disadvantage of broken-plan living includes the inevitable issue that it’s just not true open-plan living. This kind of living also can be tricky to find the appropriate furnishing to create the broken-plan design, without falling too far towards either being an enclosed or open-plan living design – there’s a middle ground that needs to be reached. Low partition walls may also remove the free-flowing flow throughout your home, as it implements architectural divides into the room. Broken-plan living can also end up being more expensive than its counterpart, as after the walls of a room have been removed to open up the floor, low walls and shelving to cross the room to make the broken divides in the room are added to make it a broken-plan design.


We hope that this write-up has allowed you to explore two types of home living that you might of not have thought up before, we’d be happy to hear your thoughts on these two distinct home plans, as well as any experiences you might have on developing your home with such design. For distinct furniture to help you maximise the craftiness of your open-plan, explore our living room furniture range. If you’re looking to create a broken-plan design for your home, be sure to explore our range of bookcases and shelving units.

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