6 Custom Home Building Trends to Keep an Eye on in 2018

With a focus on openness and simplicity, many of 2018’s latest home design trends help create homes that serve as escapes from the daily grind. If you’re building on New Jersey’s Jersey Shore, these features can help you bring more comfort and warmth into your home while still highlighting your unique personality.

Here are just a few trends you can request from your nearby custom home builder.

2018 Design Trends to Request From Your Custom Home Builder

Going Natural

2018 will see darker wood colors being passed over in favor of walls, details, and even furniture that feature a lighter, more natural wood look and unfinished texture. This change can bring a rustic and calming feel to any room of your new home.

Metallic Details

To accent the natural wood tones, many homeowners are choosing complementary metal detailing. This often includes brass and copper being featured in accent furniture, hardware, and vintage light fixtures and hardware.

More Open Space

As we’ve mentioned in a past blog post, having a wide open great room that combines the living room, dining room, and kitchen is a growing trend.

The desire for more open space doesn’t end there. More and more homeowners are opening up different parts of their homes. Grand halls, high ceilings, and spacious studies make homes feel less cramped and more welcoming.

Clean Lines

Modern homeowners are choosing to build their homes with simpler, more optimized layouts and designs. This means abandoning superfluous details like turrets in favor of a clean, minimal, and modern look.

Outdoor Areas

With the focus on open space, modern homes are usually built with large comfortable outdoor areas. Homeowners with bigger yards often build larger, elaborate porches and patios that come with features like built-in fireplaces and screened-in sections.

Another way to blur the line between the outdoors and the indoors is incorporating large multi-level decks with large double-doorways in your home’s design.

Simplistic Bedrooms

Sleep researchers suggest moving away from using bedrooms as multipurpose rooms, citing phones, televisions, work, and food as things that get in the way of a good night’s sleep. Following this advice, many homeowners are building more minimalist bedrooms that are soothing and completely free of distraction.

Want to bring some of these new design trends into your own custom home design? Walters Homes, Ocean County’s trusted nearby custom home builders, can incorporate modern features like these, smart technology, energy-efficient appliances, and more in your home.

Contact Walters Homes or visit one of our model homes to find out what you can expect from your next custom home.