While the traditional floorplan of an open kitchen usually means the room is opening up to an eat-in area, dining room or living room, why not take the design outside.

That fabulous dinner party where guests wander endlessly from the kitchen to the living room ... Section RE, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: I’m So Over Open-Concept Design ...

This renovated ranch in Middletown features an open concept, custom-built banquette that serves as table and island, open ...

According to the report, 64 percent of renovating homeowners are opting for kitchens that are completely open concept, meaning no wall separates the kitchen from an adjacent room.

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An open concept layout combines living, family and dining rooms with the kitchen, and the resulting space is often called a “great room.” We are said to want this configuration because it ...

To achieve this spacious layout, the designers tore down the walls and drastically altered the layout of the entire home. Because the kitchen, living room and dining room now share a single space, ...

I fear, though, that this advice will be lost on partisans of the open-concept kitchen because, to be frank, I suspect that most of them are not actually doing much cooking or entertaining.