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Why renovation shows love knocking down walls

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According to home improvement broadcasts, every single house on earth needs a completely open floor plan immediately. Hosts routinely convince perfectly happy homeowners to aggressively sledgehammer every interior wall they own, transforming cozy private rooms into massive, echoing warehouses purely because knocking things down makes for incredible on-screen demolition footage.

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