What the Family Room Means Today

Lorne Rose is quoted in a recent article from Toronto Storeys, giving his perspective as a Toronto residential architect on the role of the family room in modern home design.

Lorne comments on the evolution and the typical location of the family room in people’s homes:

Square footage is at a premium in prime Toronto locations, and many a popular pundit has decried how technology is leaving family togetherness in tatters. So does that mean the family room is an architectural anachronism? The answer is yes — and no. “A space that’s really given over to the family might be what we traditionally called a den,” says Lorne Rose, a Toronto-based architect who’s been designing living spaces since the mid-1990s. “A modern family room is often going to be at the back of the house, adjacent to the kitchen, with no dividing walls, leaving it open to the kitchen.” Rose says it’s not so much that the family room has disappeared, rather it has evolved. What is disappearing in modern homes, according to the architect, are more formal and traditional living spaces.

Continue reading this article about family rooms, featuring Toronto residential architect, Lorne Rose.

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