5 pinnacle home improvement trends for 2019

If you want to understand where the home layout is headed, there’s no higher supply than Design & Construction Week, the enterprise’s biggest trade display, which took place Feb. 19-21 in Las Vegas. HomeAdvisor’s team was among the 85,000-plus attendees: designers, builders, manufacturers, and home professionals. Here are five tendencies we noticed on your next remodel.

1. High-tech kitchens and baths

Smart domestic technology has largely focused on other parts of the house, with gadgets like video doorbells and clever thermostats. But most of the coolest connectivity at this year’s display turned out to be aimed squarely at the kitchen and tub. Case in point: Kohler and Delta launched Alexa-enabled kitchen taps that let you fill particular volumes of water with voice commands.

In the bathroom, designers are betting on excessive-tech solutions, including linked leak detectors and clever toilets with integrated bidets, in step with the National Kitchen & Bath Association’s 2019 Bathroom Design Trends report.

Then there’s smart cooking, a prevalent subject with appliance producers. GE, LG, and Whirlpool all touted versions of the “guided cooking era,” wherein the variety or cooktop routinely adjusts temperatures and cooking times based on the recipe.

2. Luxury laundry rooms

The laundry room has popped out of the basement shadows. An upstairs laundry room crowned the list of forte rooms that a domestic should sell, consistent with the National Association of Home Builders’ 2019 version of its What Home Buyers Want file. Manufacturers are responding with smooth, fashionable laundry home equipment that demands visibility. One of the biggest head-turners at this year’s show was a washer/dryer set from Samsung in a fascinating champagne finish.

3. Black is lower back

You couldn’t stroll 20 ft at this year’s show without running into any other black-hued product or fixture — an indication of the growing hobby in the cutting-edge layout. Black toilets are hot, as evidenced by the bounty of taps with an ebony finish. With its rugged matte finish, Brizo’s Actavis Bath Collection changed into an actual showstopper.

In the kitchen, black chrome steel continues to be robust as a fingerprint-resistant alternative to conventional stainless steel. Finally, black has become the favorite window cladding coloration, with brands including Andersen, Marvin, and Ply Gem decking their cubicles in the hue.

4. Smart ways to conserve water

Rising water costs and water shortages in many municipalities make water conservation as crucial as power efficiency. Water-saving lavatories and showerheads were everywhere on the show floor. One of the most modern examples turned into the Nebia Spa Shower 2.0, which atomizes water to reduce utilization by using sixty-five percent without sacrificing strain.

Together with GE, Moen, and Phyn, several producers showcased water-tracking technology that supplies house owners with actual-time intake data for each fixture inside the domestic. That transparency helps households reduce their water use by using 15 percent, in step with an employer spokesperson with Phyn. In addition to stepped-forward water efficiency, the systems can perceive huge and small leaks throughout the home. In a first-rate incident, like a burst pipe, they may even turn off the water at the primary line, eliminating the chance of catastrophic water damage.

5. Bringing the outside in

Builders and architects find new ways to integrate houses with their herbal surroundings. Glass is the cross-to fabric, including doorways that do the paintings of home windows via flooding interiors with natural mild even as supplying expansive views.

Many modern-day glass wall systems include the option of automatic manipulation, permitting owners to bring the outdoors in with the flick of a switch. We didn’t see any versions with incorporated voice management; however, given the growth of digital assistants all around the home, from appliances to bathrooms to showerheads, Alexa-enabled windows and doorways are positive to be a feature at subsequent years Design & Construction Week.