I like having a closed-concept residence.
To me, a closed-concept residence signifies that (most often) there isn’t a direct view from one fundamental residing house to the following. 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 residing areas are separate from the others.
I’m typically requested in regards to 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. Truly, the one occasions I might think about a barely extra open-concept structure are after I’m within the kitchen cooking dinner. When we’re internet hosting, I generally get FOMO and don’t wish to miss something with our company. To counter this, I invite folks to come back chat with me whereas I cook dinner.
In in the present day’s put up, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept residence.
4 Reasons I Love Our Closed-Concept Home
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, lined in mud, and a large number rapidly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to comprise the mess, cleaned every little thing up, after which obtained again to the occasion fairly rapidly. It was one thing I’d develop into so used to, I didn’t assume 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’ve folks over, it’s additionally simpler to do last-minute cleansing and to take care of a basic 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 are able to 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 reside in an even bigger home than we did earlier than. This means there’s naturally extra space to spend time individually. However, we have a tendency to make use of about half of the home most continuously when it’s simply our instant household, so the closed-concept ground plan undoubtedly nonetheless helps present some separation.
3. I can design every room individually.
When you might be designing inside an open-concept ground plan, you’re initially constructing the design round a cohesive scheme. It takes a little bit of talent to determine how to do this. With our closed-concept areas, it’s felt like every room can have its personal persona.
While I’ll think about 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 fundamental residing areas particularly enjoyable. You can see the person persona 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 could have an enormous nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. When it involves downtime, this typically consists of the TV. In this residence, with separate areas with no TV, we’re drawn to do completely 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 the best way to play tennis and is perpetually testing the boundaries of her artistic muscle. Follow her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.