How To Zone An Open Plan Space

How to zone an open plan space is something we have talked a lot about in the Friday Househunter posts but I thought it would be good to dedicate a proper post to it. Not all of us live in airy loft spaces where we need to create small spaces out of one large one but these ideas can also work on a smaller scale in studio flats and bedsits as well as the classic knock-through double reception room found in so many Victorian homes.

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The architect Frank Lloyd Wright was one of the first to advocate open plan living and his ideas were based around the idea of the kitchen as a central hub with the other spaces leading off it. The idea, says Norbert Schoenauer, in his book, 6,000 Years of Housing, was that the housewife (for that it is who it was back then) could be more of a hostess in her own home rather than a “kitchen mechanic behind closed doors”.

Which is an interesting and noble idea, although there was, at that time, clearly no …