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Home Interior Trends With Diverse Styles
By James R Blunt
Are you wondering what is new for home interior trends in ’09?
Perhaps you are looking to prep your house to sell, building a
new property from scratch, expanding to a new office complex or
you just need a change of scenery.
Interior design jobs encompass a range of diverse styles, themes
and tastes, although there are some clear trends emerging now
that builders are allowing clients so many customizable options.
This year, open floor plans will likely continue to flourish,
along with more practical ideas to combine energy efficiency and
frugality in a tasteful way.
Family Bedrooms Were Always Upstairs
Homes from the 1800s to early 1900s were special in that the
home designs of large family estates were internally divided to
create distinct environments. For instance, home owners had practical
servant’s quarters on the lower level floors near the kitchen,
whereas the family’s bedrooms were all situated upstairs.
A powder room was often found downstairs and an en-suite bathroom
was just off the parent’s master bath. The children often lived
down a hallway and in their own separate quarter of the house,
so the parents could have a bit of privacy and reprieve. In some
instances, a carriage house held the in laws or guests. This is
a home interior trend that’s coming back for 2009, with second
or third bedroom suites and added bathrooms increasing in popularity.
Secondary Suites For Children And Guests
"Buyers are saying, let’s put kids over here to one side
to keep things quiet for parents or in-laws who will be moving
in with them," explains Kyle Lindsey, owner of Kyle Lindsey
Custom Homes. These secondary suites are typically 300-400 square-feet
with full bathrooms and occasional sitting rooms in an isolated
section of the house, Lindsey adds.
According to Doty Horn, Director of Color & Design at Benjamin
Moore Paint Company, there are four designs color trends that
will see us through until 2011. The first is the "raw"
trend, which takes life down a notch to its minimalist roots.
Colors like Chantilly Lace, Mascarpone, Fossil, Frappe, Tucson
winds, Jute and Storm will be popular colors that reflect natural
building materials like sand, brick, cinder blocks and wood.
Urban Silence Blends City And Country Life
Another color trend she calls "urban silence," which
blends city and country life, will be popular. City colors like
Shadow Gray, Metallic Copper and Metallic Bronze meet country
colors like Wasabi, Yellow Tone and Winding Vines. "Simplexity"
is the third home interior color trend she lists, which blends
two colors together so that it is hard to tell whether it is black
or purple, blue or gray.
Colors in this palette include: Thunder, Merlot Red, Buttered
Yam, Hidden Falls, Arroyo Red, Meditation and Amsterdam, to name
a few. The last trend is the "private identity" trend,
which speaks to our continuous quest for self-definition and individuality,
Horn says, adding: "You’re your own person so you’re going
to put together a personal statement color.
You could do a bright red mixed with a powder blue and put a
bold gold against it. So you’ve got this contrast of very bold
color and then a very light color and that gives it an unexpected
twist."
Any architect interior designer will tell you that the home interior
vibe is all in the finishing touches: wall finishes, paint, flooring,
countertops. These nuances can draw home owners in or leave them
feeling discordant.
Native Rock And Brick Exteriors
John Friesenhahn of Imagine Homes says native rock and brick
exteriors are classic choices, but home owners are looking for
a little more color on their interiors. He says Silestone countertops
offer a wide range of colors. Last year’s mocha and sage green
paint colors will be traded in for mustard yellow and grassy greens.
Allergen-proof, easy-to-clean and natural flooring is in this
year too.
High-end homes will see Italian mosaic tiles, travertine and
porcelain. Dark exotic wood cabinetry became popular in 2008 and
will continue as an interior design kitchen and bedroom staple
throughout 2009.
About the Author:
James R Blunt has written a number of articles on architecture
and home improvement including The
Design, Architecture
And Design, Design
Development, Architectural
Digest, Architectural
Services, The
Architect, The
Architectural, Architecture.
Keep a lookout for more of his articles on this website.
Little Known Interior Design Facts....
What types of careers can you have as an interior designer?
You may think that all interior designers
concentrate on colors for sofas in people’s living rooms but you
would be wrong. The field of interior design is very vast. Some
professionals choose to focus more on corporate designs.
Some choose to focus on industrial designs
and of course some will focus on home designs. The only limit
is the ones that you place on yourself. An interior designer has
to be able to think of the overall picture and be able to have
a great imagination. He or she must be a salesperson because they
have to sell an idea. The jobs can be small, such as a single
room in a home, or it could be the redesign of an entire hotel
chain.
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