Trending Designs For Home Exteriors

26 Sep Trending Designs For Home Exteriors

Building a new home comes with a lot of choices to make, but many of these can be confined to the interior. Curb appeal is one of the most critical aspects of your home because, as they say, you never get a second chance to make a first impression. The exterior of your home is the first thing that your guests will see as they approach, so you want to make your design choices count. Here’s a look at what’s currently trending when it comes to home exterior design.

Combining Materials

While the trend used to be in keeping materials consistent in exterior home design, today, it’s perfectly common to combine materials to give a more textured look. Think wood and metal. Or stone and glass. The sky is truly the limit when it comes to picking out materials for your exterior, and this is a great way to give your home more dimension and visual appeal. 

Let There Be Light

Glass is one of the most amazing building materials because of the amount of natural light that it allows inside of your home. And windows have become a significant focus on exterior home design, with many using more sleek and thin window frames to promote even more natural light flooding in. What’s great too is that windows allow the outside in, so you can feel at one with nature and your landscaping. 

Farmhouse Fabulous

The farmhouse trend continues to be one of the most popular in exterior home design, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere soon. Many designs favor the contemporary design style with farmhouse features built-ins, like shiplap, dark window frames, and vertical siding.

Bringing the Outside In

Another trend in exterior home design is bringing the outside in, meaning blending indoor and outdoor living. One of the easiest ways to achieve this is to use a collapsing, multi-panel door system that disappears from your view and connects your outdoor and indoor living spaces. This works really well off of a kitchen or family room that is connected to an expansive deck. And speaking of the outdoors, more and more homeowners are opting to take modern indoor conveniences outside, like kitchens, dining areas, and even TVs, to catch the big game.

We would love to assist you in building the custom home of your dreams in the Marion, Cedar Rapids, or Iowa City area! At Dahl Custom Homes, we are experts at custom home construction and would love to discuss your project in more detail. 

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