[villagetinker]

Originally Posted by Mosells

Interesting, I thought the arch and columns looked good. Please share what you didn’t like and how the removal looks better. Interesting minds want to know.

We had our home (a Gardenia) built without the columns, in our humble opinion, neither one of us liked the column in the middle of the room.

As I noted above, the neighbor had the same opinion, and after I removed these it really opens up the room. This is of course all a matter of taste. I have seen several houses with the columns that work well with the arrangement of the furniture.