I like having a closed-concept house.
To me, a closed-concept house signifies that (most often) there isn’t a direct view from one principal dwelling area to the following. Rooms are separated by both a wall, a door, or an archway. In our house, whereas there’s a view from the entryway to the sitting room to the eating room, most of our principal dwelling areas are separate from the others.
I’m typically requested concerning the downsides of dwelling with out the direct sight strains that have a tendency to return with properties constructed up to now twenty years. In my expertise, there are a lot extra causes to like dwelling in a closed-concept house than there are to dislike it. Actually, the one instances I might take into account a barely extra open-concept structure are once I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. After we’re internet hosting, I generally get FOMO and don’t need to miss something with our company. To counter this, I invite individuals to return chat with me whereas I prepare dinner.
In right now’s publish, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept house.
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 large number rapidly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to include the mess, cleaned every part up, after which obtained again to the social gathering fairly rapidly. It was one thing I’d change into so used to, I didn’t assume twice about it! It wasn’t till she introduced it up that I noticed how helpful the structure is for our household’s way of life.
When we’ve got 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 youngsters are getting a bit of 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 ought to be famous that we do reside in an even 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 continuously when it’s simply our instant household, so the closed-concept ground plan positively nonetheless helps present some separation.
3. I can design every room individually.
If you end up designing inside an open-concept ground plan, you’re before everything 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 take into account the general coloration palette of the house once I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a should be too intently tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our principal dwelling 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’ve a giant nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. On the subject of downtime, this typically contains the TV. On this house, with separate areas with out a TV, we’re drawn to do totally 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 at the moment studying tips on how to play tennis and is endlessly testing the boundaries of her inventive muscle. Comply with her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
