[Question] Settings on areas?

[mistyn8]

Looking to migrate a legacy grid with settings on row and cells..

rows translate to layouts, and cells to areas.. but seem to be missing a settings model binding on areas?

What's the approach here then, raise the area settings into the layout settings? Or have to add a settings container block to apply a background color class to what should be the area ( around multiple blocks in the area)

Achieving the following with an editor choice on the area container.. not having to set on each individual block.