Maximize Living Space without Hallways: Inexpensive Floor Plans Part 2

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Hallways: The Living Space Thief

Hallways rank among the worst design features:

• Create narrow, claustrophobic feel.
• Create traffic blockages with open closet doors, etc.
• Can (transversely) impair flows of light, heat, ventilation, view, etc.
• Can rob you of at least a closet and possibly a small room when compared to an alternate allocation of the total floor's square footage.
• Make whole house "feel" smaller.

Designing a floor plan so that common rooms (living room, kitchen) are at a nexus of private rooms (non-through-traffic rooms such as bedrooms or bathrooms):

• Allows the common rooms to do double-duty as a hallway function.
• Allows larger living areas (living rooms, bedrooms) with the same floor square-footage and wall perimeter.
• Makes the whole house "feel" larger.