The dream is still achievable. My brother and I teamed up with our spouses and bought a home. Between the four of us we were able to buy a house. Just the one.

there would be no place to put a TV screen that’s visible from the whole seating

That was kind of the point, it was called a "conversation pit"

Naïve of you to think that this space needs a TV, when any house like this is probably large enough and expensive enough to have a proper home theater room with a proper projector and surround sound system.

Dont forget the tripping hazard!

I think this is made for swinging lol.

i love floor plans that aren't centered around a TV. fuck your TV. try talking to people.

But it can also works as an indoor pool in summer.

Pretty cool looking, but also pretty impractical with modern buildings.

It's funny because it's literally the opposite: "modern" buildings (read: of the "modernist" style popular circa 1930s-1970s) are the only kind that do have these things.

It's buildings that are newer than modern that don't have them because people realized they're impractical.

You don’t need the tv visible from the whole seating area - that seating area is massive. You could put an 80” on a stand either along the side (where the flowers are) or on one of the corners, and still have room for an easy 8 people watching.

In my experience, you can get 6-8 people coordinated for watching a movie at your house. After that, you have a hard time finding something everyone is going to enjoy, you have bio breaks, and in general people like to just talk. Admittedly, we don’t watch sports, but even so I think rounding up 12-16 people (which would probably fill up this pit unless everyone were very close friends) would be a chore.

I have a lovely MCM house. It’s nowhere big enough to have a pit like this, but it does have an atrium. We throw parties pretty regularly, and once we get above 6-7 people, most of the time we’re just throwing on some music and letting everyone mingle. If we do put on a movie, it’s more of a background thing, and I honestly think most people prefer a good playlist and ready-to-go cocktails.

Yea, I'm estimating that couch pit is about 15' square. So that room has to be close to double that in depth. It's probably a mid century ranch house, all 1 story. You could put a huge hookah in the middle. Or a console pac-man game!

Silicon Valley horndogs are still absolutely doing this shit. They just do it in a room that's plastered floor to ceiling with giant TV screens, rather than in a soft velvet-lined passion pit.

Sad times.

That would make sense because I can see a lot of tripping and falling leading to injury in a cocaine lounge.

This is the world OSHA has created. I say we return to Darwinism.

The internet IS our conversation pit.

Probably the person who broke their ankle did it in some wildly adventurous sexual position mid intercourse and kept going until it was complete like a champ.