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Choosing The Right Contemporary Features For Your New Home

Annie Herrera

If you are in the market for a new home, you may be ready to start designing your new house with modern features. There are a lot of options to integrate contemporary design features into the design of your new custom home. The following information will help you choose where you want to add contemporary design features for your new home.

Contemporary exterior architectural design features—The first option that you may want to consider for your new custom home is contemporary architecture. This type of architecture has different architectural features such as flat roofs, more glass, and cleaner lines in the design. Contemporary architecture can have artistic design and more functional features for the needs of your new custom home.

Adding the right modern features to your interior design—There are also modern features that you may want to consider for the interior design of your new home. The first contemporary design feature you will want is an open-concept layout. This is a great feature for spaces like living rooms and kitchens. In the kitchen, modern design will give you a more functional kitchen with the modern features your family needs for their daily life.

Fusing traditional and contemporary architecture together—There are also options to fuse the different architectural styles together. For the main silhouette of the architectural design, you may want to have your home to have a more traditional appearance with roof slopes and a traditional look. There are options like adding solar energy to the roof with solar roofing tiles or having rooftop space with flat outdoor spaces. You can also choose different exterior finish materials as an alternative to siding and masonry to give your home contemporary design accents.

Landscaping, hardscaping, and modern design features for your property—It is often easy to overlook the landscaping of your new custom home, but this is another area where you may want modern design features. The things that can be done for these designs include:

  • Contemporary fence and gate designs
  • Attractive outdoor flooring-like surfaces
  • Outdoor gathering and living space areas
  • Modern materials like metal and glass in hardscaping designs

These are some of the exterior design features that can be done for the terrain around your new custom home.

These areas are where you will want to add to the contemporary features of the design of your new home. When you get ready to design your new home, contact custom home builders to get started with the process.


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