lordkenmore
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>Everytime I see homes with large ceilings open to the second and third floor all I can think of is comfort problems and gigantic bills. They look wonderful, and castles had them too--and life was hard.
You have a point.
Another thing I dislike are those open floor plans that have almost no walls and definitely no doors between rooms in the main part. There's a long list of reasons I don't like this, but one relevant for this thread is that heating options seem better when you have real individual rooms, ideally with a door. A door on the family room can be helpful to help cut the noise from the rug rats, but it also means that one has the option of easily heating just that one room to 70, while the rest of the house is kept at a frugal 60.
In the 1990s, my father endured a lengthy power failure. His-then family lived in a modern development house. The only heat was the fireplace in the family room, and apparently even keeping it going 24/7, and it was apparently quite cold. A fireplace won't heat much, but I'd bet it would have been more tolerable if there had been some way of easily closing that room off from the rest of the house, which certainly literally sucked what heat there was out, and sent back lots of cold drafts.
You have a point.
Another thing I dislike are those open floor plans that have almost no walls and definitely no doors between rooms in the main part. There's a long list of reasons I don't like this, but one relevant for this thread is that heating options seem better when you have real individual rooms, ideally with a door. A door on the family room can be helpful to help cut the noise from the rug rats, but it also means that one has the option of easily heating just that one room to 70, while the rest of the house is kept at a frugal 60.
In the 1990s, my father endured a lengthy power failure. His-then family lived in a modern development house. The only heat was the fireplace in the family room, and apparently even keeping it going 24/7, and it was apparently quite cold. A fireplace won't heat much, but I'd bet it would have been more tolerable if there had been some way of easily closing that room off from the rest of the house, which certainly literally sucked what heat there was out, and sent back lots of cold drafts.