I like having a closed-concept house.
To me, a closed-concept house signifies that (normally) there isn’t a direct view from one essential dwelling house 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 essential 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 come back with houses constructed previously 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. Really, the one occasions I might take into account a barely extra open-concept format are after 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 visitors. To counter this, I invite individuals to come back chat with me whereas I prepare dinner.
In at this time’s publish, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept house.
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 canine within the again door, lined in mud, and a large number shortly 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 celebration fairly shortly. It was one thing I’d turn out to be 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 life-style.
When we’ve got 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 youngsters are getting a bit 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 reside 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 ceaselessly when it’s simply our speedy household, so the closed-concept flooring plan positively 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 at first 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 persona.
Whereas I’ll take into account the general colour palette of the house after 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 essential dwelling areas particularly enjoyable. You’ll be able to 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 totally different actions.
I do know from expertise that when you’ve an enormous nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. Relating to downtime, this typically consists of the TV. On this house, with separate areas and not using a TV, we’re drawn to do totally 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 the right way to play tennis and is perpetually testing the boundaries of her artistic muscle. Comply with her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
