Closed-Idea House Design: 4 Causes I Love the Format of Our Fifties Home | Wit & Delight

I really like having a closed-concept residence.

To me, a closed-concept residence implies that (typically) there isn’t a direct view from one most important dwelling area 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 most important dwelling areas are separate from the others.

I’m typically requested concerning the downsides of dwelling with out the direct sight traces that have a tendency to return with properties constructed previously twenty years. In my expertise, there are loads extra causes to like dwelling in a closed-concept residence than there are to dislike it. Actually, the one occasions I’d contemplate a barely extra open-concept format are after 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 right now’s submit, I’m sharing my favourite issues about our closed-concept residence.

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 canine 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 little thing up, after which obtained again to the social gathering fairly shortly. It was one thing I’d develop 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 format is for our household’s life-style. 

When we’ve folks 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 somewhat 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 must be famous that we do dwell in a much bigger home than we did earlier than. This implies there’s naturally extra space to spend time individually. Nevertheless, we have a tendency to make use of about half of the home most incessantly when it’s simply our instant 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 firstly 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 persona.

Whereas I’ll contemplate the general shade palette of the house after 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 most important dwelling 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 attempt totally different actions.

I do know from expertise that when you have got an enormous 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 residence, with separate areas with no TV, we’re drawn to do totally different actions. The youngsters 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 how you can play tennis and is ceaselessly testing the boundaries of her inventive muscle. Comply with her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.