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No one follows house trends more than the home and design experts at Houzz. As we work with our custom home building clients across southern Colorado, we often encourage our families to create their own Houzz idea books to help research, collect, and organize their wants and desires for their new Colorado custom home.
The kitchen, often referred to as the heart of the home, is one of the main areas of focus for a custom home buyer. This year kitchen designers across the nation are predicting nine trends that will define kitchen design in 2016.
From soft, muted color palettes to nod towards midcentury modern, you’ll want to checkout these kitchen design ideas that will have you cooking up a plan for a new custom home in 2016!
At Pioneer West Homes, the leading Energy Star custom home builder in Southern Colorado, we love great kitchen design trends as much as we love the great kitchens in the homes we build.
About Pioneer West Homes: The only home builder in Southern Colorado to commit to building 100% of our Colorado Custom Homes to the Energy Star Version 3 Standard, Pioneer West Homes is celebrating our 10th anniversary of building trendsetting and energy efficient custom homes in Colorado and New Mexico. Pioneer West Homes is the recipient of numerous Parade of Homes awards from the Pueblo Association of Homes Builders and the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs.
If decorating your custom home is in your New Year’s plans, here’s what the design editors at House Beautiful predict everyone will love in 2016. After scouring the best in the industry, their predictions for interior design trends include a little of this and a little of that and some that will send you to the attic to recycle treasures that you’ve loved in the past!
1. The “Glamily” Room: What’s an immaculate aesthete to do with a dog around — or a Doritos-loving tween? Let her living room go? Hardly! Turn to hardworking-yet-fabulous fabrics paired with sexy silhouettes.
2. Monthly Clubs: It’s decor at your door! And will make you count the hours ’til mail drop. Click here to see House Beautiful’s favorites resources.
3. Boutique Showrooms: Indie upstarts are the newest sources for designer textiles.
4. Bed Linens With Pizzazz: This year, we’re taking a hiatus from plain white sheets thanks to Bailey McCarthy’s Biscuit, which puts dozens of covetable patterns in play — all made in the U.S. of A.
5. Pretty Pendants: We love our chandeliers, but 2016 is the year of the statement pendant.
6. Perky Pedestals: Another star, ideal for your sparest corners: The tall, handsome pedestal, primed to exhibit a sculpture, a plant, or even the house cat (who likely considers himself worthy of it anyway).
7. The Return of the Desk: The honeymoon period for working on your laptop in bed is officially over. In 2016, we’re reserving the bedroom for more important things!
8. Traditional Tableware: Consider this a doting note to grandmothers everywhere: You were right. Gravy boats and footed bowls are necessary members of the tablescape — especially now, with their au courant edge.
9. A Matcha Moment: Green juice is so 2015. We’re sipping on the elixir of 11th-century Japanese Zen priests: antioxidant-rich matcha green tea, with a ceremonial brewing process (and cool tools) that feels Zen in itself.
10. Mixed metals: Platinum, gold, copper, steel — as long as they’ve got metallic sheen, they go together in our book. It’s bling like you’ve never seen before.
11. Fabric Wall Art: Attention, all designers: Robert Allen is paper-backing almost all of its textiles for a flat fee, from silks to damasks.
12. Design-Trepreneurs: A new rising trend is designers by day who pursue other passions with equal verve, from custom accessory lines to movie-set styling. Click here for a rundown of new designers to watch in 2016.
13. A Delft Touch: The pottery of choice from 17th-century Holland is every bit as coveted today, thanks to its charming depictions of country life — forever preserved in inky blues and soft whites.
14. Better Sleep: Blackout curtains and lavender sachets get you only so far. And while this San Francisco bedroom is super serene, there are a few things (other than a calming atmosphere) you can do to maximize your zzzs, like opt for pillows technologically designed to do the best possible job.
15. Guatemalan Fabrics: Textile gurus often find muses in indigenous artisans the world over and collaborate to great effect. Trending presently is Guatemala, where colorful weaving has been part of the fabric of Mayan life for thousands of wildly vivid years.
16. Consignment Now: In lieu of life after Craigslist, here are three websites to help you buy and sell furniture and accessories worry-free:
Viyet –
Luxury furniture and accessories from Knoll, Holly Hunt, and more at up to 80 percent off retail — with white-glove delivery.
Chairish
– A highly curated treasure trove of 65,000 vintage and new finds — all of which ship to the continental U.S., with two-day returns.
At Pioneer West Homes, the leading custom home builder in Southern Colorado, Colorado, we love great interior design trends as much as we love great design trends in the homes we build. To read the entire article on these trends, visit HouseBeautiful.com.
About Pioneer West Homes: The only home builder in Southern Colorado to commit to building 100% of our Colorado Custom Homes to the Energy Star Version 3 Standard, Pioneer West Homes is celebrating our 10th anniversary of building trendsetting and energy efficient custom homes in Colorado and New Mexico. Pioneer West Homes is the recipient of numerous Parade of Homes awards from the Pueblo Association of Homes Builders and the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs.
10/5/2015 Building a new custom home is all about building the home you’ve always dreamed of that includes all the custom features that make the home uniquely yours.
Lighting, white it can be tricky, is typically one of the areas that Pioneer West Homes families have the most fun with. The perfect lighting for your custom home needs to be stylish and functional. From modern to traditional, dining area lighting needs to make a decorative statement and also provide enough light (without glare) for the space.
Whether we’re helping you design a dining space for just the two of you, or for a formal gathering of 20, we’ve found that Lumens.com offers the best tips for illuminating this subject!
Mini-Pendant & Multi-Light Pendant Lighting: On its own, one mini-pendant is probably not sufficient to properly illuminate a dining table. But when 3 or more are grouped together, you effectively have a contemporary take on a traditional chandelier.
Drum Pendant Lighting: With their clean-cut profile, drum pendants are particularly popular choices for modern dining rooms. However, while the overall shape seems simple enough, there are enough sizes, materials and other details out there to make a drum pendant distinctive from the others. Materials range from pleated fabric to frosted glass to laser-cut metal and are often finished with a bottom diffuser to minimize glare.
Medium & Large Pendant Lighting: Medium or large pendants offer even greater sculptural possibilities over a dining table. You can keep things relatively simple with large bell-shaped metal pendants, add a natural element with metal branches, or create a whimsical look with a fluffy “poof” of curled wood veneer. Again, proportion is important. You want to choose a pendant that will compliment the size and shape of your dining table, not overwhelm it. Lumens suggests a good rule – choose a pendant that is 6” narrower on each side than the smallest width of the dining table.
Tips from the Lumens Pros:
Ideally, locate your pendant lighting between 28 and 36 inches above the surface of the table. It should be higher than eye level, but low enough to provide ample light on the surface.
If your room is filled with calm colors and complementary decor, experiment with an unconventional pendant shape, material or color.
A dimmer is a must for changing the mood of the room between parties, gatherings and quiet dinners.
For design ideas for your custom home, visit our new custom home galleries.
About Pioneer West Homes: The only home builder in Southern Colorado to commit to building 100% of our Colorado Custom Homes to the Energy Star Version 3 Standard, Pioneer West Homes is celebrating our 10th anniversary of building trendsetting and energy efficient custom homes in Colorado and New Mexico. Pioneer West Homes is the recipient of numerous Parade of Homes awards from the Pueblo Association of Homes Builders and the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs.
Locally-owned Pioneer West Homes swept the 2015 Pueblo Parade of Homes Industry Awards of Excellence for the price category for homes over one million dollars! Awards include Best Kitchen, Best Floor Plan, Best Master Suite, Best Architectural Exterior, Best Interior Design, Best Landscape and Best Overall Home.
This year’s Parade Home by Pioneer West Homes is a custom ICF (Insulated Concrete Form) stone and stucco ranch style home with a rustic interior and exquisite custom finishes. Highlights of the home include a floor to ceiling stacked stone fireplace, wood beams, and walnut floors in the open family room. The spa-like master suite promises to offer the perfect destination for the owners’ “staycation” as they enjoy the custom cabinetry, over-sized walk-in shower, his-and-hers vanities, and tile flooring. The finished lower level features a large rec room with custom walnut wet bar and floating walnut shelves, and walks out to an incredible outdoor, in-ground swimming pool.
The craftsmanship and custom features of this home are not to be missed so purchase your tickets at Pioneer West Homes at 35001 Hidden Mesa Road or online at PuebloHBA.org.
This year’s show, July 17 – 26th, is open Fridays from 1 to 6 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tickets are $5.00 per person (under 16 admitted free of charge).
Unable to attend this year’s Parade of Homes, no worries, you can click here to take a tour!
About Pioneer West Homes: The only home builder in Southern Colorado to commit to building 100% of our Colorado Custom Homes to the Energy Star Version 3 Standard, Pioneer West Homes is celebrating its 10th anniversary of building trendsetting and energy-efficient custom homes in Colorado and New Mexico. Pioneer West Homes is the recipient of numerous Parade of Homes awards from the Pueblo Association of Homes Builders and the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs.
The 2015 Pueblo Parade of Home for Pioneer West Homes has come together beautifully. The stone and stucco ranch style home is not only an incredibly stylish home, it’s the best performing, energy-efficient home in this year’s Pueblo Parade of Homes.
A low-maintenance, ranch-style home located on a walk-out homesite, this Pueblo custom home is built entirely of ICF Construction (Insulated Concrete Form). The home is a custom design build project that has been built to provide the family with a living environment that is stylish, comfortable, and energy-efficient, meeting the stringent Energy Star Version 3 Standards.
ICF is a system of formwork using reinforced concrete usually made with a rigid thermal insulation that stays in place as a permanent interior and exterior substrate for walls, floors, and roofs. The forms are interlocking modular units that are dry-stacked (without mortar) and filled with concrete. The units lock together somewhat like Lego bricks and create a form for the structural walls or floors of a building. ICF construction has become commonplace for both low-rise commercial and high-performance residential construction as more stringent energy efficiency and natural disaster resistant building codes are adopted.
This year’s custom home will be open to the public July 17 – 26. Open Fridays from 1 to 6 p.m. and weekends from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., tickets are $5.00 per person (under 16 admitted free of charge) and available at each Parade home or online at PuebloHBA.org.
About Pioneer West Homes: The only home builder in Southern Colorado to commit to building 100% of our Colorado Custom Homes to the Energy Star Version 3 Standard, Pioneer West Homes is celebrating its 10th anniversary of building trendsetting and energy-efficient custom homes in Colorado and New Mexico. Pioneer West Homes is the recipient of numerous Parade of Homes awards from the Pueblo Association of Homes Builders and the Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs.
The Home Builders Association of Pueblo is pleased to present the 2015 Pueblo Parade of Homes. This year’s show, July 17 – 26th, features homes built by member home builders of the Pueblo Association of Home Builders, including Pioneer West Homes. (more…)
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pioneer West Homes is a custom home builder company dedicated to exceptional craftsmanship and design, while also providing unsurpassed high-performance Energy Star homes. (more…)
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Pioneer West Homes of Colorado has been awarded “Best Of Houzz” for Customer Satisfaction by Houzz, the leading platform for home remodeling and design. The 10-year-old custom home building company that specializes in energy-efficient, well-designed custom homes from El Paso County, CO to New Mexico, was chosen by the more than 25 million monthly unique users that comprise the Houzz community from among more than 500,000 active home building, remodeling and design industry professionals. (more…)