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It's fine to build a mediocre timber home How do you have sex in that? How do your teenagers have sex in that? Is that what you wanted or merely what you put u

It's fine to build a mediocre timber home How do you have sex in that? How do your teenagers have sex in that? Is that what you wanted or merely what you put up with because you don't know that it could be done any better? Also: open plan kitchen. You can't cook in there; if you do everything smells of cooking and it covered with oil mist in short order. You can't remodel, because you house is your biggest tax-free leveraged savings vehicle and Americans are surprisingly conformist; your remodel just won't sell.

microcolonel 7y ago
Are you alright? I have no idea what you're trying to say here. I don't generally put up with it, but who am I to dictate everyone else's standards for their own living? > Also: open plan kitchen. You can't cook in there; if you do everything smells of cooking and it covered with oil mist in short order Open plan kitchens are fine if you have a proper range hood, but yeah, some people undersize their range hoods... but also lots of people don't cook much.
- GordonS 7y ago
  Not the OP, but I guess the sex thing was about sound proofing.
- karatestomp 7y ago
  I doubt most kitchens have a hood at all. I’ve seen a whole lot more of those fans that just spit the air right back into the room, through ineffective filters that no-one ever cleans or replaces, than real hoods. Those don’t seem to become common until you’re also looking at houses with those oversized commercial-alike ranges.
oh_sigh 7y ago
Open plan kitchen: You have a range hood. It's the standard way of exhausting cooking smells, smoke, and oil droplets. You should probably have one even if you don't have an open plan kitchen. I like my open plan kitchen because I can be cooking, and supervising my young kid playing in the living room at the same time. Or, if guests are over, I can be cooking dinner and still be part of the conversation.

microcolonel 7y ago

Are you alright? I have no idea what you're trying to say here. I don't generally put up with it, but who am I to dictate everyone else's standards for their own living? > Also: open plan kitchen. You can't cook in there; if you do everything smells of cooking and it covered with oil mist in short order Open plan kitchens are fine if you have a proper range hood, but yeah, some people undersize their range hoods... but also lots of people don't cook much.

GordonS 7y ago
Not the OP, but I guess the sex thing was about sound proofing.
karatestomp 7y ago
I doubt most kitchens have a hood at all. I’ve seen a whole lot more of those fans that just spit the air right back into the room, through ineffective filters that no-one ever cleans or replaces, than real hoods. Those don’t seem to become common until you’re also looking at houses with those oversized commercial-alike ranges.

oh_sigh 7y ago

Open plan kitchen: You have a range hood. It's the standard way of exhausting cooking smells, smoke, and oil droplets. You should probably have one even if you don't have an open plan kitchen. I like my open plan kitchen because I can be cooking, and supervising my young kid playing in the living room at the same time. Or, if guests are over, I can be cooking dinner and still be part of the conversation.