If you will be serving alcohol, your restaurant floor plan might include a bar ... but an overcrowded dining room is uncomfortable for guests and inefficient for your staff.

Open floor plans that make it easy to move through primary living and entertaining areas have been popular for decades. Open ...

designing loneliness into American floor plans. If dining space keeps dying, the U.S. might not have a chance to get it back. The apex predator of the dining room is the “great room”—a ...

That is why one company, Schumacher Homes of Akron, Ohio, has a fresh new design on offer: a house with an open floor plan, with its kitchen, dining area, and living room all flowing into one another.

Drawing a room floor plan will clearly outline the kind of space ... frequently different areas of it are used. For example, a dining room is likely to require a table, but the space may double ...