Home Interior Trends for 2022

Designing your custom home in Sydney begins with that first spark of inspiration. It could be where your block is located, a favorite colour, or even how you want your finished home to make you and your family feel. Zee Builders understands the excitement of starting your custom home design and has curated this list of home interior trends to inspire you.

Kitchen

In modern custom home design, the kitchen is the focal point of the home and an area of gathering, warmth, and welcome. A custom-built kitchen can be designed to meet your needs while making the cooking and entertaining process more enjoyable. With improved accessibility, convenience, and aesthetics, the following features are trending options in custom kitchen design:
• Glass Partitions: Consider including a glass partition if you are designing your kitchen space within an open-concept floor plan. Made up of clear glass panels or bricks, these walls work well to break up and enclose spaces while still allowing natural light in and maintaining the overall flow of your interior.
• Statement Hood Fans: A kitchen vent hood isn’t just a valuable addition to your kitchen stove—it’s a great way to incorporate unique details into your custom kitchen design. Whether you choose a sleek stainless steel or distressed shabby-chic style, this decorative element adds a splash of style to your kitchen.
• Island with Bar-style Seating: An island is a center block in the middle of your kitchen that often includes extra space for storage and an elevated section with room for stools. This seating area helps improve the functionality of your kitchen and gives your family a place to sit as they gather to prepare food or eat an informal meal.
• Oversized Light Fixtures: Add a sense of drama to your kitchen space by including oversized light fixtures. You can select your light fixtures to match the size and scale of the room or use them in a smaller space to make a bold visual statement.
• Open Shelving: A trend in custom home design is to integrate several open shelves into your kitchen cabinets. These shelves are ideal for showcasing décor items, specialty serving items, and decorative dinnerware.
• Metallic Fixtures: Adding metallic details to your kitchen cabinet hardware, faucets, and light fixtures is a modern way to add warmth and sophistication to your kitchen space. Metallic accents also make your space feel more luxurious and can also bring industrial style to your domestic kitchen.

Toilet

Toilets are functional rooms, but as more people work from home and spend more time inside, having a space that encourages rest is the most significant trend in toilet design. No matter the size of your room, the following features can help your toilet feel bright, elegant, and calming:
• Home Spa and Wet Rooms: Design features like large windows, natural woods, luxury wet rooms, walk-in showers, and inset bathtubs are elements that give your toilet a spa-like feel.
• Natural Elements: Custom features such as bamboo cabinetry, granite tile, and open natural wood shelving are elements that bring the soothing elements of nature into your home.
• Stone Tile and Statement Marble: Not only are natural stone and statement marble eco-friendly building materials, but they also bring natural beauty and dimension to your toilet. The natural materials are popular around bathtubs, enclosed showers, and as decorative flooring.
• Natural Light: Skylights, glass walls, and frosted windows are trending options that allow natural light to flow in while maintaining privacy.
• Deluxe Fixtures: Investing in luxury fixtures is a unique way to add character to your custom toilet design. Upgraded faucets, showerheads, cabinet hardware, and towel racks bring sophistication and style to the space. Trending options for deluxe fixtures include brushed metallic, matte black, and polished chrome.

Lounge Room

The lounge room is often located in the center of the main floor, and recent trends have reinforced the function of this room as a gathering place for family members and a place to entertain guests. Depending on the size of your home, your lounge room may include a formal seating area, entertainment center, fireplace, or reading areas. The following features are trending options in custom lounge room design.
• Sunken Lounge Room: A sunken lounge room separates space in an open floor plan and creates a visual dimension in your interior. They are also great for entertaining guests because people naturally converge in that area of your living space.
• Floor-to-Ceiling Windows: This popular architectural feature opens up your lounge room and infuses it with natural light. Windows with opening and closing panels are ideal to allow fresh air into the room.
• Built-in Cabinetry: Built-ins are ideal for storage, displaying decorative items, and increasing floor space that would usually be taken up by stand-alone pieces of furniture.
• Exposed Beams: Lounge rooms are also known as “Great Rooms”, and one of the easiest ways to add drama and a sense of grandeur to the space is with exposed roof beams. These wooden beams run the room’s length and are typically stained in a colour that contrasts with the ceiling.
• Stone Feature Wall: Stone walls are a trending feature that adds texture, character, and interest to a room. You can design a feature wall with dedicated lighting or use stone to highlight the area around your fireplace. Popular types of stone include slate, brick, marble, and granite.

Master Bedroom

The master bedroom is a place of solace, and its primary function is to ensure a restful sleep and a quiet place to recharge. Master bedrooms are also where most of your day-to-day clothing is stored, and for some people, it serves a dual function such as home office, nursery, or library. The following features are trending options in custom master bedroom design.
• Variable Lighting: The right type of lighting can allow you to set the tone for your room to match your mood or to give you a more calming effect. Also known as a “dimmer switch”, a variable lighting switch lets you change the brightness of the light coming from select light fixtures in your room.
• In-Suite Toilet: An attached in-suite toilet adds value to your home and improves your quality of life because of the enhanced convenience, accessibility, comfort, and privacy.
• French Doors and Balcony: Design your master bedroom to be your own private oasis with a small balcony and french doors. Enjoy your morning coffee or breakfast in the fresh air or enjoy the time before bed enjoying the stars and night sky.
• Rolling Exterior Shutters: For maximum privacy and to allow you to sleep in darkness any time of day, consider exterior roll shutters. They are remote-controlled and add a layer of protection against natural elements of wind, rain, and hail, and deter intruders from accessing your property.
• Reading Nook: Designing a master bedroom with a reading nook is ideal for integrating your love of books with quiet and calming surroundings. Built-in bookshelves are popular additions to reading nooks.

Laundry

Laundry rooms are no longer relegated to the basement—trends in main floor laundry rooms have emphasized style and unique design features that make doing laundry efficient and enjoyable. The following features are trending options in custom laundry room design.
• Built-In Cupboards: The laundry room is often where clothing and linens are folded, ironed, or hung—and where the laundry detergents and supplies are kept. Installing built-in cupboards ensures plenty of space to store the items you need to make laundry feel like less of a chore.
• Farmer’s Sink: A farmer’s sink is an excellent addition to the laundry room because its waist height and deep basin are perfect for soaking and treating stains. These enameled sinks are a classic choice known for their durability and retro flair.
• Contrasting Floor Tiles: Add a hint of colour to an otherwise plain room with floor tiles in a colour that contrasts with the wall or cabinet colours. A darker colour floor will make a larger room feel cosier, while a pale or neutral colour floor will make a small laundry room feel more spacious.
• Pull-out Drawers for Baskets: The minimalist aesthetic is trending, and one of the best ways to incorporate it into the laundry room is with concealed laundry baskets. Wide slide-out drawers can also be fitted with hampers for each type of wash load.
• Valet Rods: A variety of different clothing comes through the laundry room, and some of it needs to be hung to dry. Laundered clothes that have been ironed also need a place for them to hang so they don’t get wrinkled. Valet rods are ideal for the laundry room because they keep the room neat and organized.
• Stackable Washer and Dryer: These appliances are functionally the same as their side-by-side counterparts, but they take up much less space because they stack on top of each other.

Designing the interior of your home is one of the most exciting parts of the custom home building process. Zee Builders’ trusted team of engineers, architects, and designers work with you to incorporate the features that make your custom house a home. Contact us today for more information.