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Top 5 Home Design Trends

Check out Darren’s Top 5 Design Trends for 2009:

1. Metal Roofs
   Environmentally friendly, clean and adds a new/different texture to the roofs… whether used as the whole roof or as accents
   
   
2. Dark Trim Colors
   These colors can give a real punch to the façade of your home. This allows the house to blend with the landscaping, picture frames openings and highlights glazing shapes as proportional architectural features.
   
   
3. Front Porches
   Not necessarily interpreted as covered porches, but those are always great, but a front yard sitting area, whether a bench, porch or patio, this space adds connectivity to the home and offers a sense of community when utilized as an outdoor space for congregation and socializing
   
   
4. Indoor/Outdoor Landscaping
   Let the landscaping reflect the architecture and vice versa… ie: using similar stone on the front porch as it carried in to the front foyer or back eating area, carrying trim details on the house into elements within the landscaping like a fence, arbor or gazebo heralds back to such Architects as Frank Lloyd Wright and his concept of “organize” architecture.
   
   
5. Brick
   With the numerous styles, shapes and colors of brick out there now from many of the different companies, both in Canada and the U.S., brick is making a nice comeback and can give some real depth to the character of the home.