Latest design trends to consider for your new home

Latest design trends to consider for your new home | H is for Home

The average percentage fee charged by UK architects is around 5% to 12% of the overall building cost for a new home, according to MyBuilder.com. Naturally, you’ll want to incorporate some of the latest design trends into your new-build house to create the wow factor. However, with so many design ideas, it can be challenging to choose the best.

That is why you need to determine if you want to transform how you live and interact with your home, add architectural interest, or both. Also, make sure to learn the steps to creating your dream home to increase the chances of achieving positive results.

White and blond wood kitchen diner

Modern luxury designs

Many people are embracing the idea of home as a sanctuary more than ever. For this reason, property owners are collaborating with builders focused on contemporary luxuries for both interior and exterior designs. While you can do it yourself, modern luxury home designs require a keen focus on quality and personal taste. This latest design trend involves incorporating ideas that are pared-back, calm and combined with warm minimalism. For example, instead of keeping up with cool grey neutrals, you can embrace warm neutrals like beige and oatmeal to create a warm and uplifting space.

Luxury designs create room for hybrid fusion like the combination of Japanese minimalism style and Scandinavian simplicity. You may also incorporate bold and matte blacks, geometrical balance and mixed metals into your space.

Minimalist living room

Open and multi-functional spaces

Conventional designs like dedicated study, dining rooms, and lounges will still be part of modern homes. Open and multi-purpose living spaces will be a popular choice for many home-owners. As a result, new homes will have sliding doors and dividers to allow interior and exterior parts to integrate. Unlike in the past, where open spaces integrated the living room and kitchen, modern open floor plan designs now expand to the terraces and the bedroom.

Loft apartment with grey walls

Industrialism designs

Industrialism is gaining popularity in residential designs. This décor idea revolves around using concrete, brick, wood, recycled plastic, aluminium and iron to cut down construction expenses. When adding industrialism designs in your home, designers concentrate on simple lines, absence of surface elements and asymmetrical forms.

In most cases, experts combine industrialism with minimalism, which promotes the use of experimental and modern materials. Since minimalism is a commitment to simple forms, it helps lower energy costs and reduces carbon footprint through acoustic and thermal insulation.

Get their look: Mustard-styled bathroom

 

 
 
 
 
 
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A post shared by ✨ Natasha Wood ✨ (@woodsintothewoods)

This mustard-styled bathroom makes really good, practical use of the compact and awkward area you get under a flight of stairs. The negative space created by the lower stairs is where the toilet has been installed; a place where – for want of a better way of explaining it – a considerable amount of time there is spent sitting down.

A few stairs higher is where the hand basin is positioned; again, a spot where you’d probably be bent over brushing your teeth or washing your face.

Lastly, where the stairs end and there’s maximum headroom, the shower is situated; giving you all the vertical space needed to wash hair – and in this family’s case… Cheddar, the golden retriever’s muddy paws!

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Luxury candle jar
Luxury candle jar
Jet black hexagon mirror
Jet black hexagon mirror
TIGI Bed Head colour goddess
TIGI Bed Head colour goddess
Black wire storage basket
Black wire storage basket
Open wire wall rack
Open wire wall rack
3L yellow pedal bin
3L yellow pedal bin
Bath towels
Bath towels
Luxury candle jar
Luxury candle jar
Jet black hexagon mirror
Jet black hexagon mirror
TIGI Bed Head colour goddess
TIGI Bed Head colour goddess
Black wire storage basket
Black wire storage basket
Open wire wall rack
Open wire wall rack
3L yellow pedal bin
3L yellow pedal bin
Bath towels
Bath towels

Get their look: Country cottage kitchen

 

 
 
 
 
 
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This country cottage kitchen can be found in a beautiful Victorian house in a Suffolk village. It belongs to USA-born Ambrice, her British husband, Ben (aka ‘The Lumberjack’) and Theo, the cutest poodle you’ve ever seen.

Like the rest of the house, this kitchen is a proper grown ups’ space. You can tell that they take their home cooking and entertaining very seriously. The Lacanche range is a substantial bit of cooking kit – I’m only an itty bit jealous! I love how they’ve up-cycled a wooden school workbench to form a useful and practical kitchen island / breakfast bar. They’ve topped it with a re-purposed stainless steel work surface that can take any rough treatment you can through at it including hot pans, sharp knives and stain-causing equipment.

Take a browse through Ambrice’s squares to see the evolution of their wonderful country cottage kitchen.

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Spider plants
Spider plants
Suede apron
Suede apron
Copper saucepan set
Copper saucepan set
KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer, copper
KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer, copper
1405mm Lacanche Classic Range Cooker: Chalonnais
1405mm Lacanche Classic Range Cooker: Chalonnais
Stainless steel work bench
Stainless steel work bench
Spider plants
Spider plants
Suede apron
Suede apron
Copper saucepan set
Copper saucepan set
KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer, copper
KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer, copper
1405mm Lacanche Classic Range Cooker: Chalonnais
1405mm Lacanche Classic Range Cooker: Chalonnais
Stainless steel work bench
Stainless steel work bench
Spider plants
Spider plants
Suede apron
Suede apron
Copper saucepan set
Copper saucepan set
KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer, copper
KitchenAid 4.8L Artisan Stand Mixer, copper
1405mm Lacanche Classic Range Cooker: Chalonnais
1405mm Lacanche Classic Range Cooker: Chalonnais
Stainless steel work bench
Stainless steel work bench

Get their look: Labelled laundry

 

 
 
 
 
 
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I’ve mentioned in an earlier post about my love of uniformly tagged storage jars – and this decoratively labelled laundry brings sheer pleasure to my eyes.

If there’s the space (and budget), a separate washing machine and dryer can halve laundry times. And on the same subject, these white goods are so bulky, doing what you can to ‘pimp’ them up really transforms the space. Affixing a decal takes practically no time at all, but it really prettifies an otherwise big, white box.

Swipe across to have a look at the ‘before’ photo; doesn’t a simple coat of pure white paint on cabinet doors make a huge difference?

shop labelled laundry

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Laundry labels
Laundry labels
Wash/Dry decal set
Wash/Dry decal set
Extra-small flexi tub bucket
Extra-small flexi tub bucket
Wenko Corno prime grey laundry bin with lid
Wenko Corno prime grey laundry bin with lid
2-piece enamel half bucket set
2-piece enamel half bucket set
Laundry Co. metal wall plaque
Laundry Co. metal wall plaque
3-piece rustic metal galvanized canisters
3-piece rustic metal galvanized canisters
Laundry labels
Laundry labels
Wash/Dry decal set
Wash/Dry decal set
Extra-small flexi tub bucket
Extra-small flexi tub bucket
Wenko Corno prime grey laundry bin with lid
Wenko Corno prime grey laundry bin with lid
2-piece enamel half bucket set
2-piece enamel half bucket set
Laundry Co. metal wall plaque
Laundry Co. metal wall plaque
3-piece rustic metal galvanized canisters
3-piece rustic metal galvanized canisters