I like having a closed-concept residence.
To me, a closed-concept residence implies that (most often) there isn’t a direct view from one essential residing house 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 essential residing areas are separate from the others.
I’m usually requested concerning the downsides of residing with out the direct sight traces that have a tendency to come back with properties constructed previously twenty years. In my expertise, there are a lot extra causes to like residing in a closed-concept residence than there are to dislike it. Really, the one instances I’d contemplate a barely extra open-concept structure are after 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 company. To counter this, I invite individuals to come back chat with me whereas I cook dinner.
In right now’s submit, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept residence.
4 Causes I Love Our Closed-Idea Residence
1. Messes are extra simply contained.
A girlfriend not too long ago jogged my memory what occurred the primary time I had her over for dinner. I let the canines within the again door, lined in mud, and a large number shortly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to comprise the mess, cleaned all the things up, after which acquired again to the social gathering fairly shortly. 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 spotted how helpful the structure is for our household’s life-style.
When we now 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 children are getting a bit older, we are able to 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 ought to be famous that we do stay in an even bigger home than we did earlier than. This implies there’s naturally extra space to spend time individually. Nevertheless, we have a tendency to make use of about half of the home most regularly when it’s simply our rapid household, so the closed-concept flooring plan undoubtedly nonetheless helps present some separation.
3. I can design every room individually.
If you find yourself designing inside an open-concept flooring plan, you’re initially 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 contemplate the general shade palette of the house after I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a must be too carefully tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our essential residing 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 attempt totally different actions.
I do know from expertise that when you may have an enormous nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. Relating to downtime, this usually consists of the TV. On this residence, with separate areas with no TV, we’re drawn to do totally different actions. The youngsters will learn after 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 presently studying how you can play tennis and is ceaselessly testing the boundaries of her artistic muscle. Comply with her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
