The doorway into my living room is in the middle of the wall, which really hinders my options for layout (basically whichever way we have the door open, it is in the way of something, so everything needs to be on one side).
I feel like I’m missing some major cons of just having an archway there instead (of the same width).
The two major factors I can think of are potentially noise and heating, however:
We very rarely close the door anyway. The only time we do is cat related (vet home visits for example) but this can be solved by using the kitchen instead. The only noise ‘issue’ we have with the door open is hearing the tele upstairs, but this doesn’t bother either of us and we can obviously close the bedroom doors.
Re heating, there are two radiators, one on each side of the left wall and the house is generally warm anyway, so I can’t see it being any colder by being more open.
Am I missing anything?
This may or may not be a forever home, so we do need to think about the effect on selling in the future.. Would it put you off?
One more thing to note is that we don’t yet have DC but we are hopeful. Is this something that could have an impact later? I suppose if we needed to, we could always add a stairgate on or something later on (getting way ahead of myself)
Floor plan added just incase!