At P.L. Lyons, we stay at the forefront of home design, blending timeless craftsmanship with the latest trends to create spaces our clients love. In our latest feature, we explore the top seven home design trends shaping today’s custom builds and renovations. From the rise of warm, earthy color palettes and natural materials to the growing popularity of multifunctional spaces and sustainable features, today’s homes are becoming more personalized, efficient, and connected to nature. Bold accents, statement ceilings, and seamless indoor-outdoor living designs also continue to redefine luxury and comfort. At P.L. Lyons, we bring these trends to life with thoughtful planning, expert execution, and a commitment to creating homes as beautiful as they are functional.
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Cool Colors
Our Design Team can help you make selections in color of walls, ceilings, trim, flooring, cabinetry, granite, exteriors, and other items. Working with our design team– or with your own if you already have a preference– can inspire the fresh but timeless appearance you’ll want for your home.
Grays and whites will always be a win for a home, especially to ensure its resale value.
However, we are noticing vibrant colors with a touch of earth tone are making a come back! The most popular color for 2018 was a combination of sage green and cool gray. Behr brand called the color “In the Moment.” The shade is more than a neutral without being too heavy. It can connect the outside world and inspirations from other parts of the world directly to your personal dwelling.
In 2022, we saw those earth tones come back around with the Sherwin Williams “Evergreen Fog” color. A soothing, subtle, and perfect shade to freshen up any space. Its chameleon-like ability to blend greens, greys, and blues allows it to be used in the interior of your home or even the exterior. Take a look at this unique project where we used “Evergreen Fog” on the outside of the house. It’s a true testament to the diversity these vibrant and earthy tones can bring to your home.
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Waterproof Basement
Shrinkage, settling, and cracking are inevitable with concrete and especially in foundations. To allow for proper flexing and elasticity in your concrete and foundation and to avoid huge issues with leaking and stability, waterproofing your basement is one of the most important features to select in your new home design.
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Don’t Match
No need to buy an entire bedroom suite of the same style furniture anymore. This also applies to great rooms and dining rooms. Instead, choose eclectic pieces to intentionally bring together a room. This is key to elevating your space. A room overwhelmed by matching furniture looks dated and boring. It makes it a blur of the same color material. As was mentioned earlier, luxury spaces embrace the bold. And as Dwight Schrute from “The Office” once asked when they gave him a makeover, “Less matching to appear more rich?” Yes, Dwight!
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Natural Stone, Granite, Copper
Concrete, Quartz, and
Champagne Gold
Essential fixtures can double as decorative objects, especially when they are made of these natural materials like natural stone, granite, copper, and concrete. This is a trending technique and it works well with light fixtures, sinks, coffee tables, beams, and even walls and flooring. Carved designs and geometric shapes are great ideas for sophisticated and original decoration when using these materials.
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Custom Floor
Plan Styles
As floor plans for homes continually evolve, the one-story, story and a half, and two-story homes continue to be best sellers. The popularity of one story open floor plan homes has seen a recent resurgence. This may be because of many people who are prioritizing a simplistic lifestyle, which impacts the way a person orients the space around them.
But what is a story and a half home, you ask? This is a nice compromise between the other 2 options. Home owners can have their main areas of living in the same part of the home, most likely on the main floor, while still showcasing soaring ceiling heights, open lofts, and bonus spaces helpful for storage or to enhance the dramatic orientation a room. As true custom builders, our in-house design team works with each family to design the layout of their home that perfectly fits their lifestyle.
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Classy Cottagecore
We’ve seen this style preference off and on over the years. A pandemic and instagram are major contributors to its return. Recently, we moved at a slower place and found refuge in our homes. Cottagecore in interior design looks like a kitchen that inspires you to make your own sourdough bread. It prioritizes outdoor space and the facade of the home. It’s earthy but in a whimsical way. Think: rustic walkways, stucco, distressed wood grain floors, brick or stone walls, copper pots and finishes… basically, texture galore! We add the word classy because we believe the quality of these materials makes the look more timeless.
Which of our predicted trends do you like best? What other designs do you think are on the rise?
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The Perfect Lighting for
the Perfect Atmosphere
We often find the most effective lighting is a combination of decorative features and an abundance of recessed lighting, allowing families to live comfortably and age in place. Lighting can make a huge difference in mood. You need the right lighting for each and every room.
We mentioned natural and industrial materials earlier. Copper and wooden lighting solutions will jazz up the decorative composition of a home in an artistic and intriguing way. Gone are the days of basic, boring lights. Give us the multi-option dimmers for our handcrafted chandelier made of reclaimed bourbon barrel!
