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

I really like having a closed-concept house.

To me, a closed-concept house signifies that (normally) there isn’t a direct view from one major dwelling area to the subsequent. 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 major 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 return with houses constructed previously twenty years. In my expertise, there are lots extra causes to like dwelling in a closed-concept house than there are to dislike it. Really, the one instances I might think about a barely extra open-concept structure are after I’m within the kitchen cooking dinner. After we’re internet hosting, I generally get FOMO and don’t wish to miss something with our visitors. To counter this, I invite folks to return chat with me whereas I cook 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 Dwelling

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 multitude rapidly ensued. I closed the doorways between the kitchen and the remainder of the home to include the mess, cleaned all the pieces up, after which obtained again to the occasion fairly rapidly. 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 spotted how helpful the structure is for our household’s life-style. 

When we now have 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 youngsters are getting somewhat 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 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 steadily when it’s simply our instant household, so the closed-concept flooring plan positively nonetheless helps present some separation. 

3. I can design every room individually.

When you’re designing inside an open-concept flooring plan, you’re in the beginning 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 think about the general colour palette of the house after I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a should be too carefully tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our major dwelling areas particularly enjoyable. You may 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 completely 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. With regards to downtime, this typically contains the TV. On this house, with separate areas with out a TV, we’re drawn to do completely 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 presently studying the way to play tennis and is eternally testing the boundaries of her inventive muscle. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.