I like having a closed-concept residence.
To me, a closed-concept residence signifies that (typically) there isn’t a direct view from one predominant dwelling 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 predominant dwelling areas are separate from the others.
I’m typically requested concerning the downsides of dwelling with out the direct sight traces that have a tendency to return with houses 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. Actually, the one instances I might think about a barely extra open-concept format are once I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. Once we’re internet hosting, I generally 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 prepare dinner.
In right this moment’s publish, 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 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 part up, after which bought again to the celebration fairly rapidly. It was one thing I’d turn 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 format is for our household’s way of life.
When we now have individuals over, it’s additionally simpler to do last-minute cleansing and to keep up 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 just a little older, we will allow them to play independently extra typically, 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 needs to be famous that we do stay 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 often when it’s simply our instant household, so the closed-concept flooring plan positively nonetheless helps present some separation.
3. I can design every room individually.
When you’re 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 try this. With our closed-concept areas, it’s felt like every room can have its personal character.
Whereas I’ll think about the general shade palette of the house once I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a have to be too carefully tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our predominant dwelling areas particularly enjoyable. You may 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 completely different actions.
I do know from expertise that when you’ve gotten an enormous nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. On the subject of downtime, this typically consists of the TV. On this residence, with separate areas with out a TV, we’re drawn to do completely different actions. The youngsters 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 presently studying easy methods to play tennis and is without end testing the boundaries of her inventive muscle. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
