With regards to entertaining space, my view is that people feel that they need this since there is no third space for them to take visiting friends and family etc. You can essentially can meet someone outside the home for either a coffee for a full meal. Finding something in between is quite hard where you can hangout for a while.
Re: the formal spaces piece. It certainly matters what kind of family and lifestyle the home needs to accommodate. For instance, people with larger families that are home and TOGETHER much of the day need a lot of shared spaces, as Lane Scott explains: https://substack.com/@lanescott/note/c-78222870 This could in part be a declining family/ multiple children phenomenon. But homeschooling and larger families would probably be shaking their heads at that piece, as their "entertaining spaces" are actually..... needed for living.
This is such a great point. We have been looking at new homes in our area and it’s really hard to find a floor plan that is focused on family life. It would be nice to have a space for a reading nook or a library vs a wet bar or second dining room. Conversion or renovations are possible, but at significant added expense. In a perfect world I would love a wing of the house for entertaining, but the priority would have to be for the people (and especially
The entertaining space conundrum: it’s put there by people buying brand-new houses, and it’s not easy to retrofit into something else. Turning an open-floorplan area into multiple smaller rooms is challenging. So many buyers are stuck with someone else’s vision of what the space should look like.
I never read the original, so I wasn't aware of this at all. I would have interpreted Scrooge's question as 'scrupulous' Christians, not an inside political joke! The Spirit's response is timeless.
All of politics now is inside jokes. Each side has its ever-growing collection of pet insults and pet memes, which grow more convolutedly insidery by the day. Most political dialogue is conducted in this weird technical jargon, known only to the twitterites who spend all day reading and making up new insults and memes. Trump understood how to talk to outsiders, which is why he won. The Dems are still convoluting tighter and tighter in their attempt to make a "stronger resistance", which only means raising their 33rd degree Masonic initiation rite to ever-insidier insiderness.
With regards to entertaining space, my view is that people feel that they need this since there is no third space for them to take visiting friends and family etc. You can essentially can meet someone outside the home for either a coffee for a full meal. Finding something in between is quite hard where you can hangout for a while.
Re: the formal spaces piece. It certainly matters what kind of family and lifestyle the home needs to accommodate. For instance, people with larger families that are home and TOGETHER much of the day need a lot of shared spaces, as Lane Scott explains: https://substack.com/@lanescott/note/c-78222870 This could in part be a declining family/ multiple children phenomenon. But homeschooling and larger families would probably be shaking their heads at that piece, as their "entertaining spaces" are actually..... needed for living.
This is such a great point. We have been looking at new homes in our area and it’s really hard to find a floor plan that is focused on family life. It would be nice to have a space for a reading nook or a library vs a wet bar or second dining room. Conversion or renovations are possible, but at significant added expense. In a perfect world I would love a wing of the house for entertaining, but the priority would have to be for the people (and especially
kid(s) who live there all the time.
The entertaining space conundrum: it’s put there by people buying brand-new houses, and it’s not easy to retrofit into something else. Turning an open-floorplan area into multiple smaller rooms is challenging. So many buyers are stuck with someone else’s vision of what the space should look like.
I never read the original, so I wasn't aware of this at all. I would have interpreted Scrooge's question as 'scrupulous' Christians, not an inside political joke! The Spirit's response is timeless.
All of politics now is inside jokes. Each side has its ever-growing collection of pet insults and pet memes, which grow more convolutedly insidery by the day. Most political dialogue is conducted in this weird technical jargon, known only to the twitterites who spend all day reading and making up new insults and memes. Trump understood how to talk to outsiders, which is why he won. The Dems are still convoluting tighter and tighter in their attempt to make a "stronger resistance", which only means raising their 33rd degree Masonic initiation rite to ever-insidier insiderness.