I like having a closed-concept dwelling.
To me, a closed-concept dwelling implies that (usually) there isn’t a direct view from one most important residing house to the following. Rooms are separated by both a wall, a door, or an archway. In our dwelling, whereas there’s a view from the entryway to the sitting room to the eating room, most of our most important residing areas are separate from the others.
I’m typically requested concerning the downsides of residing with out the direct sight traces that have a tendency to return with properties constructed previously twenty years. In my expertise, there are loads extra causes to like residing in a closed-concept dwelling than there are to dislike it. Actually, the one instances I’d contemplate a barely extra open-concept structure are after I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. Once we’re internet hosting, I typically get FOMO and don’t wish to miss something with our friends. To counter this, I invite folks to return chat with me whereas I prepare dinner.
In in the present day’s submit, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept dwelling.
4 Causes I Love Our Closed-Idea House
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, coated in mud, and a multitude shortly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to include the mess, cleaned every thing up, after which bought 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’ve folks 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 slightly 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 must be famous that we do reside in an even bigger home than we did before. This implies there’s naturally more room to spend time individually. Nonetheless, we have a tendency to make use of about half of the home most often when it’s simply our quick household, so the closed-concept flooring plan undoubtedly nonetheless helps present some separation.
3. I can design every room individually.
When you find yourself designing inside an open-concept flooring plan, you’re in the beginning 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 persona.
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 intently tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our most important residing areas particularly enjoyable. You possibly can see the person persona of various areas in rooms just like the blue library/office and the green family room.
4. It encourages our household to attempt completely different actions.
I do know from expertise that when you may have a giant nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. In the case of downtime, this typically consists of the TV. On this dwelling, with separate areas with out a TV, we’re drawn to do completely different actions. The children 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 at the moment studying tips on how to play tennis and is without end testing the boundaries of her artistic muscle. Comply with her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
