{"id":181890,"date":"2023-06-16T00:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kitchenbathdesign.com\/?p=181890"},"modified":"2023-06-14T11:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T16:25:23","slug":"room-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitchenbathdesign.com\/room-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Room for All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Baseball, white picket fences and apple pie \u2013 historically emblematic of American culture (apple pie\u2019s Dutch origins notwithstanding), along with one other element: the nuclear family.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concept of the family as a two-parents-with-children household has its roots in the early 20th century and saw the height of its cultural popularity in the postwar era. Gleaming Rockwellian visions of the suburbs tended to feature mom spending her days cooking, dad coming home at 5:30 p.m. and little Johnny and Susie playing with the dog in the yard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While there\u2019s certainly nothing wrong with this family structure, American culture has, at its best, grown to accept and embrace that not every family can or should be the Cleavers of \u201cLeave It to Beaver\u201d fame. From single-parent households to multigenerational living situations, LGBTQ+ parents to contented \u201cDINK\u201d (dual income, no kids) couples, the American family is now a mutable and endlessly, joyously diverse concept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So how does this translate to residential design? If the kitchen is the heart of the home and the bath is the sanctuary, how might those spaces look and function differently to suit different family structures? KBDN<\/em> asked designers to weigh in with their experiences.<\/p>\n\n\n

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