I really like having a closed-concept residence.
To me, a closed-concept residence implies that (generally) there isn’t a direct view from one fundamental dwelling area to the subsequent. Rooms are separated by both a wall, a door, or an archway. In our residence, whereas there’s a view from the entryway to the sitting room to the eating room, most of our fundamental dwelling areas are separate from the others.
I’m usually requested in regards to the downsides of dwelling with out the direct sight strains that have a tendency to return with properties constructed up to now twenty years. In my expertise, there are lots extra causes to like dwelling in a closed-concept residence than there are to dislike it. Really, the one instances I’d take into account a barely extra open-concept structure are once I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. After we’re internet hosting, I typically get FOMO and don’t wish to miss something with our visitors. To counter this, I invite individuals to return chat with me whereas I cook dinner.Â
In at the moment’s put up, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept residence.
4 Causes I Love Our Closed-Idea Dwelling
1. Messes are extra simply contained.
A girlfriend just lately jogged my memory what occurred the primary time I had her over for dinner. I let the canine within the again door, coated in mud, and a multitude rapidly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to comprise the mess, cleaned every thing up, after which received again to the celebration fairly rapidly. It was one thing I’d change into so used to, I didn’t suppose twice about it! It wasn’t till she introduced it up that I noticed how helpful the structure is for our household’s life-style.Â
When now we have individuals over, it’s additionally simpler to do last-minute cleansing and to take care of a common sense of order since issues don’t unfold out from room to room as a lot.
2. It’s simpler to have alone time.
Now that the youngsters are getting just a little older, we will allow them to play independently extra usually, and Joe and I can have alone time in separate areas. Having the rooms divided up helps facilitate this, and I treasure the alone time I can get in an in any other case busy life.
It must be famous that we do dwell in an even bigger home than we did earlier than. This implies there’s naturally more room to spend time individually. Nevertheless, we have a tendency to make use of about half of the home most incessantly when it’s simply our instant household, so the closed-concept ground plan positively nonetheless helps present some separation.Â
3. I can design every room individually.
When you’re designing inside an open-concept ground plan, you’re firstly constructing the design round a cohesive scheme. It takes a little bit of ability to determine how to do this. With our closed-concept areas, it’s felt like every room can have its personal character.
Whereas I’ll take into account the general shade palette of the house once I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a should be too carefully tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our fundamental dwelling areas particularly enjoyable. You possibly can see the person character of various areas in rooms just like the blue library/workplace and the inexperienced household room.
4. It encourages our household to strive completely different actions.
I do know from expertise that when you’ve a giant nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. On the subject of downtime, this usually consists of the TV. On this residence, with separate areas and not using a TV, we’re drawn to do completely different actions. The children will learn once I’m working within the workplace, we’ll play video games in the lounge, and we’ll do crafts on the kitchen island.
Kate is the founding father of Wit & Delight. She is at the moment studying find out how to play tennis and is eternally testing the boundaries of her artistic muscle. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
