I like having a closed-concept residence.
To me, a closed-concept residence signifies that (usually) there isn’t a direct view from one essential 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 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 return 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. Actually, the one occasions I’d think about a barely extra open-concept structure are after 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 friends. To counter this, I invite folks to return chat with me whereas I prepare dinner.
In immediately’s submit, 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 not too long ago 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 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 acquired again to the get together 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.
When now we have folks over, it’s additionally simpler to do last-minute cleansing and to keep up 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 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 reside in a much bigger home than we did earlier than. This implies there’s naturally extra space 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.
If you find yourself designing inside an open-concept flooring plan, you’re firstly constructing the design round a cohesive scheme. It takes a little bit of talent 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 think about the general coloration 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 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 may have a giant nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. In terms of downtime, this usually consists of the TV. On this residence, with separate areas with no 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 presently studying the way to play tennis and is eternally testing the boundaries of her inventive muscle. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
