2022 Home Design Trends
As the year comes to a close, you may be looking ahead to 2022 design trends as you envision your dream home!
Whether you’re building a new house from the ground up with an Edmonton home builder or remodelling your current one, here are 7 upcoming interior design trends to pay attention to.
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Cottage Style Kitchens and Functional Storage
Get smart with your small space — and cozy! Cottage-style kitchens make use of every nook and cranny with built-in storage and that cozy, lived-in feel that makes you actually want to stay home
Storage has always come at a premium in kitchens, but with the rise of more cooking at home over the past year, we’ve needed to make room for more gadgets and ingredients. Built-in storage in floor-to-ceiling cabinetry can help keep you and your at-home chef happy and organized.
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Pet-friendly spaces
The pandemic led to an increase in animal adoptions, so rather than trying to adapt a pet’s belongings to your space, adapt the space to your pet! Dog-friendly home design is on trend this year to help incorporate your pet into the heart of your home. Built-in feeding stations give your pet a special spot to eat that has less chance of their water bowl being knocked over by the vacuum cleaner, and you can create a special nook or ‘bedroom’ for your dog under the stairs for a place for them to feel calm and comfortable.
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Natural Light
Our long winters and more time spent at home have people craving natural light more than ever. Expansive windows along your counter space or extra-large skylights over your kitchen will be an important trend in 2022. But in addition to adding gateways to the outside for natural light, it’s important for the features inside the home to aid this as well. Letting sunlight fall across light-coloured floors can help bounce light across a room, making a space feel airy, warm, spacious, and bright.
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Investment in Outdoor Spaces
Outdoor spaces are often the last thing on a client’s list of must-haves when building a home, so by the time they get to make decisions about it, they may have run out of money or are experiencing decision fatigue. Now, the pandemic has really changed the importance of the outdoor at-home space, meaning that more dollars are being allocated to an outdoor living space in many home building and remodelling projects.
Outdoor furniture is more luxurious and multi-functional than ever before as backyards and patios are starting to be treated with the same reverence as indoor spaces. And instead of a barbecue or typical patio bistro table with two chairs being the lone pieces of an outdoor space, things like pizza ovens, full outdoor kitchens, and full porches and patios are growing in popularity, and those outdoor design trends are expected to continue into next year.
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Inviting Work-From-Home Spaces
After 15 months, your temporary spot at the dining room table just isn’t going to cut it anymore, especially as more organizations move to a permanent work-from-home situation. As you think about remodelling your current home in 2022, evolving your workspace into a more inspiring space should be top of mind. Creating a private space with natural light helps reduce distractions and retain a sense of calm, plus an abundance of storage to keep the work documents organized will be essential to revitalizing the at-home office. You can even look at transforming unused spaces in your home into a walled office — with the right panelling, cabinetry, and a little comfy nook for a power nap, it will help feel like a proper office where you can enjoy working from home.
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Natural Materials
With more time spent at home, 2022 is all about bringing nature inside, with natural materials like wood gaining popularity. Metal and stone are also on-trend to help create spaces that are light and bright and that can be minimally decorated (another big interior design trend for 2022) or used as a blank canvas to inject your own personality into the space.
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Sustainability
Less of a trend and more of a necessity of the current state of the world, sustainability is an important factor to keep in mind when working with a homebuilder to build a new home or remodel your old one. Taking a step back from our regular lives this past year has made people more conscious of their environmental impact, leading to people making more positive choices for our planet and ultimately making sustainability to be a main selling feature when it comes to attracting home builder clients.
Energy efficiency will continue to be key in homes constructed with sustainability in mind, as well as the use of eco-friendly, natural construction materials such as brick and stone for exterior walls. You can expect to see furnishings, flooring, and architectural elements that use eco-friendly materials such as reclaimed wood, cork, and other recycled materials.
These seven home design trends for 2022 are not only good for the planet — they’re also good for the soul spending more time at home.
If you’re using a homebuilder in Edmonton to create your dream home, you want one that is up to speed with all the trends and who can make your vision become a reality. Timberstone Builders has over 15 years of experience building, remodeling, and renovating trendy and award-winning homes in Edmonton and the surrounding area.