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

I like having a closed-concept residence.

To me, a closed-concept residence signifies that (normally) there isn’t a direct view from one fundamental dwelling house 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 fundamental 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 loads extra causes to like dwelling in a closed-concept residence than there are to dislike it. Actually, the one occasions I might take into account a barely extra open-concept format are once I’m in the kitchen cooking dinner. Once 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 come back chat with me whereas I cook dinner. 

In at the moment’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 just 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 the whole lot up, after which bought again to the social gathering fairly shortly. It was one thing I’d change 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 format is for our household’s way of life. 

When we’ve folks over, it’s additionally simpler to do last-minute cleansing and to keep up a basic 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 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 stay in a much 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 regularly when it’s simply our instant household, so the closed-concept ground plan positively nonetheless helps present some separation. 

3. I can design every room individually.

If you end up designing inside an open-concept ground 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 persona.

Whereas I’ll take into account the general coloration palette of the house once I’m designing any given room, I don’t really feel a must be too intently tied to it. This made the method of experimenting with rooms in our fundamental 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 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. In terms of downtime, this typically contains the TV. On this residence, with separate areas with no TV, we’re drawn to do totally different actions. The children 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 right way to play tennis and is perpetually testing the boundaries of her artistic muscle. Observe her on Instagram at @witanddelight_.