Here now, a collection of airy living spaces that reject conventional room divisions.
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This spacious living room with retractable window walls is part of a everly Hills home that recently sold for just under $7 million.
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This is what the kitchen of a $2.5-million dollar Texas castle looks like.
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A hammock, floating stairs and decorative paddle board… This loft-style bachelor pad has it all.
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Vaulted skylight ceiling! We want that.
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Worried about privacy? London’s St. Pancras Chambers has retractable wall curtains. Previously featured in our roundup of the 15 poshest penthouses.
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Cool ceiling. How much is the heating bill?
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This open-air kitchen is one of our 15 favorite indoor-outdoor rooms.
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Very cool design, but it’s probably a nightmare during bug season.
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A living space that is so open the outdoor foliage has crept in.
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This Beirut penthouse’s retractable window wall takes the open-concept concept to the next level.
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A two-level living room library for the bookish type.
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This is the living room of Leobo Private Reserve, a posh and pricey villa located in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. More info this way.
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A sprawling dining room in Robinson Architects’ Marcus Beach House on the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, Australia.
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Architectural firm TA-CHA borrowed designed elements from the traditional Thai home when they created this 4,843-square-foot home in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
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Perhaps a touch on the gaudy side, but we’re digging the sunken seating area.
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International design studio Modourbano and Italian interior designer Takane Ezoe collaborated on the T House project in Milan, Italy.
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Margoliouth Road house was a small bungalow that Singapore-based studio DLab converted into a two-story home.
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An open-concept barn conversion. We love barn conversions!
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Almost every room in this Cape Town home is open and exposed to the outdoors. Another brilliant design by SAOTA, who we also featured in our roundup of 21 massive windows with equally massive views.
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Give it up for 25-foot skylights.
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Part of the Carrillo Residence by Steven Ehrlich in Santa Monica, California.
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Who’s up for a game of floor hockey?
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The living room of the Hupomone Ranch looks as spacious as the 160-acre California homestead it’s built on.
And now, for a totally different take on open-concept home design, check out these 17 living spaces that blur the line between bedroom and bathroom.