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Newest Trends for Home Renovation and New Home Construction Projects

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By KevinPublished 7 years ago 3 min read

When you decide to build a custom home or renovating your current home, the entire point is to create an environment with spaces you enjoy spending time in and love coming home to. While creating a space you enjoy is the main purpose, there are some benefits to adding in some of the latest trends into your new decor.

Styles, fashion and home trends are always changing. It can be difficult to keep up. Thankfully, there are many trends that are timeless. Your home needs to be a place you enjoy spending time with loved ones, relaxing and making memories. You also need to spend time maintaining your home.

Natural Selections

If you are wanting to install flooring in your new home construction or home renovation project, you should consider stepping away from the dark, hand-scraped flooring. These days, the trends in flooring lean more towards lighter, engineered woods. Experts are saying that gray, white and washed-wood flooring options are making a big comeback in home decor trends. While engineered wood products aren't always more affordable, they will be able to give you an exotic look you desire without the expensive price tag. Currently, you will also notice a trend in stone floors being used in master bedrooms and other unexpected rooms in homes beyond the living rooms.

Steel Window Fact: If you want your windows to have a steel look to them without paying the price of steel, have your home contractor match the outside wood to the inside wood color. Opting for colored wood over steel can save you more than $50,000.

More Open Spaces And Clean Building Designs

On the whole, experts are seeing home styles changing more towards contemporary. Of course, however, this isn't to say that everyone is now looking to live in glass houses. Home styles and renovations are leaning towards cleaner lines and less closed-off spaces. A spacious, open layout is now trending for homeowners. Even homeowners who are sticking to traditional looks on the outside of their home are choosing to change it up on the inside and opting to go with a more open concept. Open floor plans allow more usable space in the home.

A top trend with open spaces is having an open kitchen floor plan that leads to the den and dining room areas. To have the option of closing these spaces off once in a while, more homeowners are considering lift-and-slide doors that can be closed into the walls when not in use. These style doors are similar to outdoor styles in garages and sunrooms. Now more than ever, homeowners are looking to make use of more of their floor space than ever before.

With any new open or new designs, don’t overlook the importance of protecting your environment and its inhabitants. Especially in a warm climate with a higher percentage of small intruders, making sure your home is clean and free from destructive pests is crucial to having the perfect home. Consider calling a professional pest control company in Sacramento if you are located in a neighboring city, or one that is close to you. This is a vital step in the beginning of this process, and will continue to be one throughout your time in your newly reconstructed and designed home.

Take More Risks

Even those who don't enjoy taking risks should have fun creating their new home or renovating their current one. While you may not be into the new trend of wallpapering your ceiling, there are plenty of new home trends that aren't so scary. You can start by adding more glass and metal throughout your space. Consider employing both in your ceiling or to embellish your indoor staircase. If that is a bit too contemporary for your tastes, then consider intricate wood designs and patterned wood instead.

Formal Renewed

Many new home projects and renovations are doing away with the formal dining rooms. The truth is that most homeowners are not simply doing away with them altogether. They are just choosing to use that space a little differently than in previous years. Some homeowners are considering using the space for other functions. Instead of a formal dining room, it can be a multi-purpose room, playroom or office. The room itself does not have to completely disappear from the floor plans. You can make the space anything you want, including adding more kitchen space with a bar to eat at.

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