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Cultivating an enjoyable home is not the work of an afternoon. It is a multifaceted task to build your dream home from the shell you receive, whether your new home was move-in ready or a doer-upper like no other. Not all of us are interior designers by trade, either, so the creation of a home that delivers in every aspect can require more than a few days’ worth of research…
If you find yourself faced with the project of a lifetime – as many first home-renovations are increasingly beginning to feel – without much in the way of inspiration, let the following serve as a useful jumping-off point for you. These are some of the essential features of the modern home, straddling modernity and tradition to give you a harmonious-yet-interesting set of ideas for a modern-feeling home.
Storage Smarts
Let’s start with storage. It’s not the most glamourous starting point, but it does happen to be the most essential – and it doesn’t have to define your home in the conventional sense, either. Storage solutions can take a great many inspirational shapes, particularly when you let those shapes conform to the shapes of your home.
Fitted shelving in alcoves, recessed wardrobes with doors that slide effortlessly outwards to reveal your well-organised cloths, bookshelves that snake under and around your windows to create a seamless display of media; all of this can come to define your home as a thrilling space where practical and aesthetic meet.
Open-Plan Living Spaces
The open-plan living space is nothing new. We’ve been knocking interior walls down for generations, in service of opening up the usable space in our homes, blurring the lines between areas and creating incredible sightlines where confining partitions once stood. Open-plan living greatly expands your décor possibilities, from creating more space for bespoke furniture to enabling statement pieces more space to breathe. Open-plan living spaces are especially good for entertaining guests, too.
Energy-Efficient Home Features
Energy efficiency is the toast of the home-building industry, and one of the new leading factors in the value of new homes. As energy gets more expensive, so too does demand for high-efficiency housing rise. In investing in sustainable features for your home, you are at once investing in your future self and granting access to the unique aesthetic stylings of the eco-conscious.
Incorporating Natural Light
Natural light is always a delight in any home, and should be nurtured wherever possible in your own renovation efforts. Mirrors and open-plan designs are essential for this purpose, as are brighter wall colours for bouncing that light around your home – hence showing it in its best light.
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