Explanation of the hype

But it does have its charm not having to drag the drink crates all through the house to the utility room, but just opening one door and - poof - out of the trunk, straight to the place where the stuff is supposed to go.

The crates belong in the pantry, so... apart from that, I’m not going to clutter up the house with all the dirt and space issues just because I want to put drinks directly from the car into the house once a month? After all, that's what God created men for!

It's more about losing usable space in relatively small rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows. If a living room of 16 or 20 sqm is filled with furniture, it only happens in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows, which looks very limited and has nothing to do with spaciousness. With 30 sqm or more, it looks different again. I regularly pass by a house where a serving cabinet with an aviary stands in front of the floor-to-ceiling window; you see two cables and bird food and stuff. Next to it is a house where you see the backside of a desk, and the cables are hanging there too—not a nice sight.

I actually don't like floor-to-ceiling windows at all. Tastes are so different... we have sills under the windows (where it makes sense) about 40 cm high (also for sitting windows) and nothing in front, no curtains or anything. Even worse are really floor-to-ceiling windows with pleated blinds (I find those things so creepy that I don't even know if that's how it's spelled...). But that seems to be a must for some: everything floor-to-ceiling and then suddenly people can look inside – then we'd rather put some kind of fabric thing in front. Terrible. But: tastes...

The same in our residential area. All the floor-to-ceiling windows are blocked or have blinds in front of them. We also decided against that and ordered regular windows.

Well, have some heart for pleated blind fans [emoji6] I totally agree with you that floor-to-ceiling windows only make sense in rooms of a suitable size, because otherwise you risk blocking them, but even pleated blinds (which I find terrible) have the advantage over masonry that they let more light into the room. And more light creates a more open, generous feeling compared to dark masonry. Opponents of pleated blinds will naturally see it differently, but that's just how it is, just hold a flashlight behind a pleated blind and once behind masonry. [emoji6][emoji4]

So, I think plush toys are good. Practical, this up and down on the cord. Not so much fabric, Anne Wand. No curtain rods that need to be drilled into.