5 Hot Custom Home Design Trends in 2019

Designing a custom home gives you the chance to create a
beautiful living space tailored to your needs and full of your favorite home
design trends. Let’s explore five hot home design trends and make your dream
home Pinterest board come to life.

1. Industrial Is In

Chip and Joanna’s modern farmhouse style has had its moment,
but now it looks dated. This year’s home design trends, especially for
luxurious custom homes, are leaning away from Waco in favor of sleek and sexy
industrial styles.

The industrial look is all about clean lines, moody color
palettes and polished materials. As you design your custom home, think about
using polished concrete as a base. Use it for flooring, built-ins and kitchen
islands. Make dark colors pop with fantastic lighting by mixing in sleek Sputnik
chandeliers, recessed lighting and bare Edison bulbs.

If you worry about your home feeling lifeless if you go
industrial, fear not; industrial design doesn’t have to be cold. You can bring
in texture with exposed brick accent walls or add walnut wood accents to warm
up a space without compromising the ascetic.

2. Sleek, Striking Fireplaces

Contemporary fireplaces are blowing up Pinterest. Gas-burning fireplaces give home designers the opportunity to create a design moment wherever the custom home builder installs a fireplace.

Sleek fireplaces create a sense of luxury and high style in a living space (or bedroom). Think clean lines, simple shapes and mantels painted matte black or covered in sleek tile. It’s best to avoid chalky brick, especially in red, and bulky chimneys and mantels. Ornate, old world marble fireplaces look nice in hundred-year-old chateaux, but not so great in more contemporary custom homes.

3. Back to Nature

Bringing nature indoors is a major home design trend,
responding to people’s desire for a more organic living experience. Live plants
and other organic materials can help make your custom home feel like a retreat
from the hectic world.

Embrace indoor/outdoor living in your floor plan by
including large windows for plenty of sunshine, screened-in porches or even a
courtyard. Living walls give you an amazing opportunity to incorporate natural
design and bring the wow factor to a custom home.

You can still have natural influences in your custom home,
even if you aren’t ready to design the entire house around plants. Opt for wood
finishes to bring organic warmth into your home or use stone detailing and tile
to create a unique vibe. 

4. Terrazzo Walls (and Countertops and Tile)

Terrazzo is showing up in a lot of home design trend roundups,
and for good reason. This durable, statement-making composite material costs
less than marble, has more options for customization and can be used
practically everywhere. Terrazzo includes chips of marble, granite, quartz or
other materials, and larger chips can evoke a river stone ascetic, without the
lumpiness. 

Terrazzo manufacturers allow homeowners to fully customize
the look of this versatile building material including the color of the cement
binder and the color, size and material of the chips. This design control
ensures that the finished product will complement a home’s established design
preferences, including industrial interiors.

Homeowners who want to make a visual statement with their
custom home can use terrazzo tiles to create a one of a kind floor or a breathtaking
accent wall. Terrazzo islands also look fabulous and bring the wow factor to
the kitchen. 

5. Wallpaper That Wows

Wallpaper is one of the 2019’s hottest home design trends
for custom homes, but this isn’t your granny’s floral follies. Today, statement-making
wallpaper in custom homes is all about creating a unique atmosphere by bringing
color, pattern and texture into the home.

Custom homeowners don’t have to limit lux wallpaper
treatments to the walls. Applying wallpaper to the interiors of built-ins and cabinets
— or even on the ceiling — is a major trend for 2019 and is sure to stun.

Any committed Pinterest DIYer can tell horror stories about
attempting to hang wallpaper without professional (and often expensive) help.
If you think you want amazing wallpaper in your custom home, having your
builder hang it lets you move into your stylish dream home and cuts down the
cost and hassle of having to install wallpaper after the build.