I like having a closed-concept dwelling.
To me, a closed-concept dwelling implies that (most often) 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 dwelling, 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 in regards to the downsides of dwelling with out the direct sight traces that have a tendency to come back with properties constructed previously twenty years. In my expertise, there are lots extra causes to like dwelling in a closed-concept dwelling than there are to dislike it. Really, the one occasions I might think about a barely extra open-concept format 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 friends. To counter this, I invite individuals to come back chat with me whereas I cook dinner.
In at present’s publish, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept dwelling.
4 Causes I Love Our Closed-Idea Dwelling
1. Messes are extra simply contained.
A girlfriend just lately 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 large number shortly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to comprise the mess, cleaned the whole lot up, after which received again to the celebration 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 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 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 children are getting a bit of 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 ought to be famous that we do stay 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 continuously when it’s simply our fast 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 initially 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 character.
Whereas I’ll think about the general shade palette of the house once I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a have to be too intently tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our essential 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 will have a giant nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. In relation to downtime, this typically consists of the TV. On this dwelling, with separate areas with no 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 presently studying the best way to play tennis and is ceaselessly testing the boundaries of her inventive muscle. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
