What are Public and Private Areas in a Home?
Public and privates spaces are the key to a happy and harmonious home living. When the residents of a house know the boundaries of each room they can respect each persons space.
Public spaces are the family room, kitchen, dining room, back yard and places that are open for any member of the family to be without barriers. There can be some restrictions like small children by the stove and the like. But the concept of free access is significant to the public areas.
Private areas are the rooms that an individual controls. Bedrooms are generally the most important private space. These can be shared but an area within the bedroom can be designated an individual personal space.
What is the value of Public and Private Areas?
The value of property to a family is to make a house a home. The public and private space in a home are key considerations to the family dynamics. Peace in a home comes from a successful mix of public and private areas. The line of public and private areas, although apparently sharp is sometimes fuzzy. The wrong mix creates stress and conflict.
Some areas can be public until an activity can change them to a private space.
Other public rooms can be private areas when a personal activity is being done. These are rooms for example an office, den, craft room, study, play room and a bonus room with a particular function. Private areas can also be for a subgroup of the family. Examples can be a children multimedia family room, a reading room, couple night room. And that adds the element of time. A room can be public most of the time but private for a function or time frame.
Privacy is an important feature of a home
Privacy is one of the most important features to consider when looking at a property to become a home. Sacramento real estate is an excellent place to find privacy areas in a home. The amount of single family houses is a large part of the housing in the Sacramento area.
A guest house cost a lot to build. But if there is a guest house or also known as “accessory dwelling units,” or ADUs on the property already these will be a great asset with the public and privacy dynamics. Guest houses are also known as guest cottages, guest sheds, mother-in-law houses, and granny flats.
“Privacy is empowering to young people and its importance should not be minimized.”
Dan Parisi real estate professional in Sacramento
A house with a “bonus room” can be used creatively.
Bonus rooms can serve public and private functions. They add great flexibility to a property. A bonus room may be used for many different functions. Frequently, a bonus room becomes a multipurpose room or a family room. Sometimes, a bonus room is made specific, such as being turned into a home office, den, family room, home gym, home theater, playroom, or a craft and hobby center.
A bonus room is a room which can be used as a multi-purpose area. The multi-purpose room can be changed as the family needs it to. It could alter its usefulness from kids play area, to book club meeting room, to project lay out area, to holiday scene, to guest chamber, music room, Friday night poker room, craft room, family together space and almost any special needs the family can think of. You can create a bonus room with a 2 story bump out addition.
A bonus can be made into a recording studio. Creating your own Sacramento home recording studio can give you control. When you want to record, how you want to sound and the pace of the project are all under your power. The ability to record a full album, and promote yourself is as simple as having the basic set up of a computer, microphone, head phones and the right recording software. Home studios are more and more apart of indie bands and artist. This gives them more control in their creative process while saving money.
Outside the Home Public and Private Areas
The social characteristics of the issues connect with the public interest and private property rights. In some urban design Privately Owned Public Space (POPS) are open to the public. Some urban communities have introduced design guidelines in their building regulations to help promoting community life and public health.
Public places like parks at various times in history were the heart of the city. For example urban residents in New Yorkers identify with Times Square, Rockefeller Center, public parks and Central Park as managing downtown spaces.
I am from Philadelphia in an Italian Americans neighborhood and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Love Park, Fairmount Park, and the steps of the Museum of Art are the public use areas I remember. I live across from a good size public park and I had both public areas and my hiding place or private areas.
The front yard is a good example of a semi public area. The new way to look at housing is creating a community. Public space refers to urban space which is easily accessible to the general public at any time of day or night. The idea of the great American cities are creating public policy that is designing public consensus resulting in different patterns for the American dream home.
The Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government are making more rules for the individual home owners. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is making public statements about the issue. Some properties that where used as an RCFE can make for a good multigenerational home.
Gated communities follow the trend in the belief that they are safe and populated by others having common values. Business improvement districts are another way to mix private and public interest. Protecting public spaces is the goal of urban open space community organization. The public life is also concerned with the new suburban community.
What are Public and Private Areas in a Multigenerational Home?
Multigenerational homes require both public and private areas. Each generation needs its own type of privacy. Privacy can be for individuals or couples. Couples need privacy for many reasons. Couples require privacy for personal conversations, intimate times, romance, difficult conversations that should not be overheard and many other reasons.
It is important to give the children privacy for their friend conversations, distress, school work, solo play time like video games and other childish reasons. “Privacy is empowering to young people and its importance should not be minimized.” says Dan Parisi real estate professional in Sacramento
The degree of privacy is determined by each family. The multigenerational house needs to be designed to give each multigenerational family the flexibility to achieve the public and privacy space requirements.
How to get privacy in a home?
Layout of the home is critical. If there is a three generational family, the prerequisite for two master suites and sufficient other bedrooms will be the first step in creating effective private space. Public space many times is related to how much open space the home has. An example of poor public space is if only half the family eats in one area and the rest of the family is spread out into other areas. This may not meet the goal of a family to have meals together. Matching the family’s wants and needs with the house layout is crucial to the public-private dynamic.
Soundproofing is another way to create privacy. An existing room can have soundproofing add with furniture or structural addition. Common situations are the older generations who may be hard of hearing generally turn their television volume up. And on the other hand young people also enjoy listening to movies and music louder which can create some hardship. Improving soundproofing can be achieved by insulation, sound board, doors, or acoustical wall covering which will help absorb sound.
Many families need a first floor or ground floor bedroom. Having a bedroom off living room can create some public versus private issues. A private space just a few feet away from a public area can create conflict.
Agreements on the public-private issues will go a long way to help a family enjoy a home.
Rules can help with the public-private issues. Family rules help with bathroom disputes and can create an atmosphere of privacy. Rules about how to enter a private area can empower or diminish the effectiveness of a private area. Rules like to knock first and wait for reply before entering a private room would help with establishing privacy. No rules about individual space can actually take away privacy from a house that has great private spaces. Household rules can correct some of the deficiencies of a property.
Security locks can reinforce privacy areas. Bedroom doors that lock make a statement. Also rooms without a lock don’t feel as private. Security adds a level of privacy. Degrees of private areas can be absolute or semi-private. People places can be designed into the floor plan of the house. People need private places especially in the home.
Create a house checklist
Create a house checklist with public-private issues part of the want, need and nice to have feature of a house. A checklist helps stay on point when searching for a new place to live.
Peace in a multigenerational home, a large family, a blended family and even unrelated people comes from a successful mix of public and private areas. Understanding public-private issues before buying will make the search for a house become a home much easier. The public-private spaces in the end create a good place to live and call home.
Coffee Real Estate agents will listen to your concerns and help locate that just right Sacramento property to make into a peaceful home.
