I like having a closed-concept house.
To me, a closed-concept house implies that (normally) there isn’t a direct view from one principal residing 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 dining room to the living room, most of our principal residing areas are separate from the others.
I’m usually requested in regards to the downsides of residing with out the direct sight traces that have a tendency to return with houses constructed up to now twenty years. In my expertise, there are a lot extra causes to like residing in a closed-concept house than there are to dislike it. Really, the one instances I’d contemplate a barely extra open-concept format is once I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. After 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 cook dinner.
In as we speak’s submit, 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 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 include the mess, cleaned every thing up, after which acquired again to the social gathering fairly shortly. It was one thing I’d turn out to be so used to, I didn’t assume twice about it! It wasn’t till she introduced it up that I spotted how helpful the format is for our household’s way of life.
When we have now folks over, it’s additionally simpler to do last-minute cleansing and to take care of a normal 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 will 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 stay 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 continuously when it’s simply our quick household, so the closed-concept flooring plan positively 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 do this. With our closed-concept areas, it’s felt like every room can have its personal character.
Whereas I’ll contemplate the general coloration palette of the house once 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 principal residing areas particularly enjoyable. You may see the person character 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 might have an enormous nice room with a TV, it’s simpler to get set in your routines. With regards to downtime, this usually contains the TV. On this house, with separate areas with out a TV, we’re drawn to do completely different actions. The youngsters will learn once I’m working within the blue library/workplace, we’ll play video games in the lounge, and we’ll do crafts on the kitchen island.
Kate is at the moment studying to play the Ukulele, a lot to the despair of her husband, youngsters, and canines. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.
