One part of my home that I use especially often is my home office. There's nothing special about the room: it's the second bedroom in my apartment, and it has a split purpose as my TV and gaming room.

It was like I was an afterthought. I've spent 10 years in financial services, where I worked in everything from high-walled cubicles to open office floor plans to eventually having my very own office.

So how different is a broken floor plan from other layouts? “The broken floor plan ... living space is broken into living, dining, and home office areas with dividing accents between each ...

Many people admire the allure of open-concept layouts ... the kitchen or part of your home office. To feed my curiosity about the rise of closed-concept floor plans, I reached out to 11 interior ...