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Making living rooms with refrigerators is an idiotic trend in modern house building.

These architects watched too many cheap pop American movies and sitcoms and started confusing staged interiors with real life. In real life, the kitchen must be isolated from the actual living space, because cooking is dirty. It brings smells, noise, heat, grease, and clutter. You can eat in the living room if you want, but you should never cook there. A kitchen is a work space, not part of the room where people rest.

Developers keep cutting and merging rooms as much as possible, then they sell this compromise as something modern and sophisticated. It is not sophistication. It is just a cheaper layout dressed up as progress. They copy the surface of an American fashion without understanding the conditions behind it. Even where that style exists, it only becomes tolerable with much bigger homes, better ventilation, quieter appliances, and more distance between functions. Strip that away and what remains is not elegance but a cramped mistake.

Older apartments understood this better. They put kitchens in their own separate area, almost like toilets or laundry spaces: functional rooms, not part of the social center of the home. That was correct. Modern buildings keep mixing the kitchen with the living room and selling that collapse of boundaries as something elegant, advanced, or cosmopolitan.

Real comfort needs separation. Real living space should feel clean, calm, and protected from the mess of cooking. Blending kitchen and living room together is not refinement. It is confusion marketed as taste – bad taste after all.

Blame a whole chain of architects, planners, developers, and marketers. The merged kitchen/living idea grew out of early modernist open-plan design, was pushed hard in the United States by Frank Lloyd Wright and later postwar housing culture, and then got mass-sold as efficient, modern family living in ranch houses and similar suburban models.

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