Kitchens of the future, Bigger and Badder

Can you imagine the day when kitchens are 700 square foot familial meeting places with a small but quaint family room anchored next to it? What about the day spa that is your bathroom? It seems that Americans more and more are living their prime hours in the kitchens. Its only a matter of time before the kitchen and the home theatre merge! HAHA! Who knows. I have personally seen some kitchens twice the size of my college dorm. In a recent article in the Boston Globe, we are allowed a peek into the future of the home that has the kitchen as the crown jewel.

The American domicile is changing, like the American family, responding to a whole new constellation of accelerated social realities.

The home of the future will be more open, integrated, green and casual.

"The formal living room is an endangered species," says Lisa Casey Weiss, a Long Island-based consultant for the International Housewares Association.

Walls will come down, formality will vanish, and "you'll no longer have the separation between what is public and what is private," predicts Hansy Better, an architecture professor at Rhode Island School of Design, and principal of Studio Luz Architects in Boston. Look for more one-story homes, she says, "almost like a ranch-house typology. It's more versatile for the elderly and better for the young professional in terms of quickness and expediency. " Full Story.