Oh, I know. This stuff matters, though. If you're going to live there you oughtta enjoy it, and the best way to know if you enjoy it is to know why you enjoy it.

Ours is an unremodeled mid-century modern, built 1950, still has the mahogany trim strips ("character") and the three-sided fireplace. It would probably be described as "open plan, except for that annoying partition wall between the kitchen and the living room" which HGTV would have demolished before they put their camera cases down. I understand why they did it: the living/dining feels open and expansive while also separate from the kitchen and if that wall wasn't there the place would feel like a wanna-be loft (which is definitely what the renovators are going for). There was a cabinet that separated the kitchen from the hall until 2001; we took it out because we decided "more cabinets" was more useful than "breakfast nook 12 feet away from the dining room" so it's not like The Ancients Knew Everything but if you're building 30 of them you've probably put more thought into it than Johnny Sledgehammer.

And the article calls Johnny Sledgehammer a sexist architect.