Open-plan living drives huge change in number of rooms in homes. Please read on:

Open-plan living drives huge change in number of rooms in homes.

THE STATS, FACTS, & FIGURES

• Open-plan living has become a huge trend over recent times for both renovations and new build housing. Fewer walls create additional light and space and more sociable living.
• The recent 2021 census data has hinted at the massive impact this trend has had. The number of households with 4 or less rooms* has doubled from just over 7.6 million to over 15.3 million. Meanwhile, the number of households with 5 or more rooms* has decreased by 40% from over 15.7 million to just under 9.5 million.
• How we use space in our homes is becoming more imaginative, with newer trends such as ‘broken-plan’ living where dividers and low walls help to find a compromise between open-plan and traditional layouts.
• This modern way of living is very much still on trend and desirable. Google Analytics shows that search interest in the keyword ‘open plan’ grew 188% between 2011 and 2021.
• *Bathrooms and toilets are excluded from the census counts. Source: Dataloft, 2011 & 2021 Census https://census.gov.uk/census-2021-results, Google.

What we think:

The fact that the number of households with 4 rooms or less has more than doubled. The fact that households with 5 or more rooms has decreased by 40% has not surprised us at Town and Country Herts and Essex at all. We have seen a marked increase in Open-plan living. Some recent developments in and around Harlow have all been built with an Open-plan Lounge/Diner/Kitchen. These in the main seem to have been two bedroom flats and houses. Is Open-plan living for you? Are the number of rooms more or less important than a “larger combination space”? Your thoughts are always welcome here at Town and Country Herts and Essex.

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