66. Which Property Brothers Home Is Your Fave? Plus, Has COVID-19 Ruined the Open Floor Plan Trend?

Open floor plans have been the amenity of choice for many home buyers and renters for years. It’s often touted in listing details online. Turn on any HGTV show and you’ll hear a home makeover star talk about knocking down walls and opening up the layout.
But living through the COVID-19 pandemic has people rethinking the practicality of an open floor plan. With so many of us working, studying, and schooling from home, having everyone in the same room—all day every day—can get a little … old. Taking conference calls or finishing up an important project can be challenging if you can hear your partner doing their work in the exact same room. This new work-school-live-from-home situation has us thinking: is the open floor plan over? We dive into it on this episode of “House Party.”
Other topics we discuss this week include:

Two vastly different homes (one in Los Angeles and one in Nashville) designed by the Property Brothers that hit the market this week

Home improvement and design advice we learned from our dads

A $7.5 million-dollar glass house in Dallas for sale

This week’s celebrity real estate winner and loser


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