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When remodeling your home, people frequently feel as if there is a choice between aesthetics and utility. As if it isn’t possible to have both at the same time and that something needs to be sacrificed. New home remodeling trends in San Diego show the opposite, as you can have the best of both worlds.
The only thing for homeowners to remember is that fads are not the same as trends. You can have luxury, comfort, and utility all at the same time if you are not simply trying to copy what you have seen on Pinterest. Use good materials and new advancements, and there can be timeless luxury.
Additionally, you should imagine who you are remodeling your home for, including current and possible future residents. Time passes, children are born and grow up, and aging parents might want to live close due to retiring and to have access to their grandchildren.
Not to mention that it’s not the same if your profession forces you to only sleep in your house or has you working from home. You should adapt the home to your lifestyle, not the lifestyle present in California 50 years ago when many of the houses were first built.
In many cases, you might not need to do a whole home remodel. Maybe it’s just the kitchen or the bathroom. But, even in those cases, you should follow the current rules of doing the best for yourself.
Remodeling to Your Taste
As far as general aesthetic trends go for San Diego today, bright spaces with mixtures of natural material and modern design are totally “in.” But, there are a lot of ways how you can come to the same conclusion using a different path.
For one, bright doesn’t need to be conflated with “white.” Thankfully people are starting to drop the “millennial beige” and to have everything in shades of gray. Rather, you can use gray as the base and build some color over it. And this doesn’t need to be just the interior design.
When remodeling your home, you can use accent walls, stained wood floors, or even colored shutters.
Regretfully, especially if you live in a HOA neighborhood, you won’t always be able to use European-style roller shutters, which can be added to a smart home and are one of the best ways to manage internal temperature. Even then, the regular internal shutters or drapes can be colorful.
Finally, don’t be afraid to introduce furniture or remodeling pieces that speak to you directly. Regardless if you find them functional or simply nice, using some material can make you glad that you are the one living in your home.
Home Remodeling Trends for Families
While it is always good to plan for a possibly expanding family, skyrocketing prices are forcing homeowners to think beyond the normal paradigm. Namely, multi-generation living is becoming increasingly popular, and for a multitude of reasons.
For one, California is now subsidizing Accessory Dwelling Units (ADU), which can be separate houses on the same property, in-law suites, adapted garages, or remodeled insides so that there are more units. Most people are choosing for their family to live there rather than to rent out.
With multi-generation living, it is possible to save on a lot of overhead expenses, including cars, gas, groceries, utility connections, and similar issues. If you have your adult children on the property, they can save literal millions in buying property in San Diego while contributing to home maintenance and budget.
The best part about ADUs is that they maintain everyone’s privacy and freedom while allowing for all of the benefits of cohabitation.
Bright, Natural Spaces
Especially if you are remodeling your home in Solana Beach, Cardiff, or any of the similar coastal towns, there has been a widespread trend for over a decade now to make the home as filled with natural light as possible.
When facing west, the sun will enter your home for more than half a day, making your home look magnificent with large windows and spacious terraces. With the return of natural materials and old California architecture in fashion, some owners even choose to have rooftop patios to capture as much light as possible.
Mixing Metal Finishes
Especially if you have a beige home with few accents and wish to keep it simple and easy to maintain, there are options to spice up your kitchen or bathroom without overwhelming anything. This is easily done by mixing metal finishes on your fixtures.
One option is to choose fixtures from the same metal family, such as mixing silver with chrome or polished steel. Alternatively, you can mix it up by installing an accent piece made from something like brass or even a gold plate to make your bathroom “pop out.”
Stylish, Comfortable, and Useful
There is no need to make a sacrifice between style, comfort, and usefulness. While some pieces like art can have their utility remain subjective, your kitchen should still be useful for cooking and comfortable for sitting down to eat while remaining utterly stylish.
Similarly, for bathrooms now it is in fashion to have large walk-in showers that offer a lot of space and have a large rainfall showerhead. These features not only look amazing but are also very easy to clean and very safe to take a shower in.
Always Abide by the Code
Having a licensed, and even more so experienced, general contractor in San Diego has the advantage of not only fulfilling your vision correctly but also doing so while honoring everything from the building code.
For some homeowners, this is wrongfully seen as a baseless government restriction, but that is rarely the case.
In most situations, the building code is there to protect the home from winds, fires, and earthquakes. Every year, Southern California has roughly around ten thousand earthquakes, and while most are relatively small, they can spell the death of a thousand cuts for your house.
Because of that, it is much better to use high-quality materials and ensure that everything is made by code, even if nobody else would notice it. This will also make it easier to ensure the home with a smaller premium, as well as to reduce the lifetime maintenance costs on the house.
During the discovery stage of remodeling your house in San Diego, allow your contractor to find and plan for these code restrictions on time, as that would be preferable to allow the building inspector to do the same.
