One factor’s for positive. With an elevated worth being positioned on the consolation and usefulness of your residing areas, there was no scarcity of house buildouts and renovations over the previous few years.
And if you happen to take a second to go searching, you’ll see there are some very distinct and trendy design selections popping up within the space.
Right here, Michael Winn, founding father of design model Winn Design + Construct in Falls Church, walks us via the most recent house exterior tendencies happening in NoVA.
Outside residing
The previous two years have seen a noticeable surge in each creating outside residing areas, and increasing upon present areas.
“We’ve undoubtedly seen a renewed curiosity in outside residing,” says Winn.
This might embody something from porches, decks, and patios to swimming pools and outside kitchens.
The probabilities are infinite.
“The overarching theme right here is known as a byproduct of individuals spending much more time at house these previous few years,” Winn says. “They wished an area the place they’ll safely collect with their associates and over the previous few years, that has been exterior.”
Trendy and up to date
A shift towards extra up to date house design has additionally occurred in recent times.
“Beforehand, if a consumer was feeling slightly adventurous or daring, they might often discover that on the within, however we’re seeing that change not too long ago,” says Winn.
An instance of this can be taking an present house like a Cape Cod, which is often very conventional, and reimagining it in a manner that makes it extra trendy.
This may very well be finished with an addition or a pop high, the place a second story or a part of a second story is added onto a one-story house, Winn says.
Textured panels are additionally one thing new that folks having been experimenting with.
“Producers are actually making some merchandise that weren’t obtainable a short time in the past,” says Winn.
Heat and moody exterior colours
“White will ceaselessly be a traditional favourite. That’s not going anyplace,” says Winn. “Nevertheless,
individuals appear to be breaking slightly exterior of the use white and cream colours with their exterior colours.”
The addition of hotter, extra moody colours may be very in proper now.
“It began with that blue and grey pattern that was taking place for some time and has expanded from there,” Winn says. “Now we’re beginning to see extra greens and maroons and different colours.”
Genuine constructing supplies
A renewed emphasis on utilizing genuine constructing supplies like pure stone, wooden, and completely different metals is one other pattern that seems to be selecting up pace.
“Incorporating pure wooden components helps to actually heat the place and make it really feel homey,” says Winn.
And utilizing metals like copper, which is able to patina over time, provides it a end that may proceed to look completely different because the years go by.
“It’s extraordinarily tough to duplicate these items in a manner that appears actually genuine,” Winn provides.
This pattern simply provides that little contact of timelessness to a house.
“Perhaps it has to do with these previous couple of years and everybody form of going into nesting mode,” he says. “However we wish issues which can be actual round us, and which may be manifesting itself into the issues we use in our properties.”
Megan Herr is an editor and author residing within the Shenandoah Valley. She graduated with a level in journalism from Penn State College.
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