The Biggest Custom Home Building Trends in 2022
The covid lockdown period of 2020 through 2021 saw some historic upheavals in the Australian building industry, instigating major delays in custom home builds and placing the sector under significant pressure.
2022 still felt the echo of this period; however, the Australian building industry showed its resilience and is nearly back to full steam. With homeowners and trade professionals spending more time at home and online during lockdowns, they have had a lot of time to muse and share information about building ideas, sparking a wide range of custom building trends in 2022.
the biggest building trends in custom homes across Australia in 2022
Two-story dwellings
As the building industry has been back on the up and up in 2022, so have our custom home designs, with more people building up rather than out, creating a strong trend towards two-story dwellings.
While two-storey townhouses have been trending features/list/two-storey-homes-on-a-budget-double-the-space-for as property size has been shrinking due to busy modern lifestyles, 2022 has seen a returning trend to the two-story family home.
Upper-floor Laundries
As a result of the two-story townhouse trend, there has also been a shift towards upper-floor laundries.; this may seem a little strange to some, as laundries have traditionally been a ground floor or basement utility.
However, when you analyse a typical two-story dwelling, the upper floor often contains most, if not all, of the bedrooms, which requires you to carry baskets of clothes, bathroom linen, and bed sheets downstairs.
Having your laundry on the top level makes it much easier to carry your washing straight into the laundry on the top level, especially if you generally use a dryer rather than hanging the washing outside.
Ground-floor bathrooms
Ground-floor bathrooms have become more popular for people with large families to help reduce family traffic jams in the morning rush hour. Ground-floor bathrooms tend to be much smaller and sometimes feature a shower and basin with no toilet.
A full lower-level bathroom is also popular in homes with regular guests or where people have chosen to rent space on accommodation sites like Airbnb for extra income.
Accent feature walls
Feature walls are nothing new and have been re-trending for most of the last decade. However, 2022 has seen a resurgence of accented and textured feature walls.
This has been trending in many creative ways, including:
Shiplap timber walls
Full-length floating shelves
3D removable wallpaper
Textured wallpaper
Custom painted murals
Faux and living plant walls
Geometrical designs and much more
Traditional painted feature walls are also still in vogue, providing rooms with contrast and depth.
Feature ceilings
Along with feature walls, homeowners and interior designers have also been looking up, creating stunning feature ceilings.
Though you may not give it much thought, ceilings, especially lower ceilings, are always in your field of vision; however, this large space is often overlooked in the interior design phase of a custom build.
While painted feature ceilings may be the first thing that may come to mind, people who want to create a unique custom space have taken things a step further.
Some examples of feature ceiling trends include:
Pre-printed self-adhesive ceiling murals
Faux exposed beams
Ceiling parquetry
Hand-painted ceiling art
Classic and contemporary plaster mouldings
Custom whole-ceiling lighting designs
Multi-dimensional ceiling panels
Hanging plants and more
Blending the feature wall and ceiling into one piece is also a current trend and can produce some incredible designs, whether for bedrooms, kitchens, or living areas.
LVF - Luxury vinyl flooring
Vinyl flooring has often been considered a cheap option for homes on a budget. However, the new wave of luxury vinyl flooring, or LVF for short, provides a cost-effective solution without sacrificing class and style.
Even custom home buyers with a disposable budget are investing in LVF, as it provides a wide range of benefits over timber flooring, including:
Superior durability
Easy cleaning and maintenance
Realistic timber appearance
Easy to fix if damaged
Easy installation and more
Compared to stone or real-timber flooring, LVF is also slip-resistant, making it a prefered option for families with small children or homes with ageing occupants.
Home office installation
While many aspects of post-pandemic life have returned to some normality, professional lives may have changed forever. One of the most significant changes is the number of white-collar workers working from home more or less permanently.
This new age of working life has prompted a trend in creating custom home offices, with people transforming spare bedrooms or even adding a small office extension either attached to the home or as a new structure out in the yard to separate work and home life.
For creatives, this has sometimes become a larger creative suite that allows business and artistic endeavours to be conducted out of the same space, creating a multi-use studio rather than just a simple home office.
Luxury backyard areas
Covid lockdowns have had a significant impact on our social lives. Although people are returning to restaurants, pubs, clubs, and music venues, social batteries tend to drain a little faster, especially in cities that have experienced extended lockdown periods.
Many homeowners are now more focused on providing deluxe entertainment areas in the backyard, returning to a previous time, like the 70s and 80s, when entertaining guests at home was the norm.
The luxury backyards of today, however, feature many modern conveniences, with features such as:
Full outdoor kitchens
Custom pizza and bread ovens
Deluxe gas heaters
Feature fire pits
Water features
Custom lighting
Artistic Landscaping
Relaxation and meditation areas
Custom sun beds and much more
Social sites like Pinterest, Facebook, and Instagram are full of images of deluxe luxury outdoor areas and have prompted a significant rise in this trend.
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