Currently at the end of 2024, it’s an exciting time with huge opportunities within the home renovations space if you’re thinking about transforming your home into more modern retreats from the outside world. 

OakWood’s track record and expertise means that anyone can convert their homes into stylish, modern and cotemporary oases that reflect your tastes while incorporating the latest modern home design trends. 

Ready to read the latest insights on how to modernize your home in 2025 and beyond? 

Let’s jump into 5 tips on how to modernize your home! 

Upgrading Your Floors, Trim and Millwork 

Attention to detail makes the biggest difference in any type of design. This is especially so if you’re designing a home.  

Details such as your floors, trim and millwork are all critical aspects of interior home design that brings everything together and helps you create a more cohesive aesthetic look throughout your home or specific areas of the home you retouch.  

In 2024, we are seeing many homeowners modernize your home in a way that is more sustainable and functional yet aesthetically pleasing and does not skimp on craftsmanship. 

• Sustainable Materials: Not only do sustainable and eco-friendly materials such as bamboo, cork, recycled hardwood and others reduce your environmental impact but also adds luxurious textures and warmth to your interiors.
  

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• Wide Plank Floors: Wide plank floors are beautiful materials that recently came back as a modern home design trend. They help you create an illusion of space and provides a unique yet clean look that works beautifully in modern and minimalistic spaces. 

• Custom Millwork: Whether you are building custom built in shelves in your home or thinking about adding wainscoting details to your walls. Custom millwork can add a lot of personalization and a luxurious vibe to any space. Not only that, it also helps you create a more functional space where you are making the best use of space while adding an architecturally pleasing look. 

• Trims Tailored to Your Tastes:  Trims such ass crown molding, baseboard and casings around entryways and doors can drastically make a positively significant impact on the look of any room. By refreshing the look of your trims, you can quickly modernize your space without necessarily making extensive renovations. 

Enlarging Your Windows in Select Areas 

Who doesn’t enjoy natural light? Natural light is one of the most requested features homeowners look for in newer and more modern space. Adding natural light to your home can be done by enlarging windows within specific spaces and will create a fresh look that is more inviting and can make the space feel more open.   

• Increasing Light and Airflow:  A direct impact of adding bigger windows is that you get more natural light. This can help your dependency to turn on lights throughout the day and improve the mood of household members. Opening these windows can also help you maintain a healthy indoor environment. 

• Making Your Home More Energy Efficient: by investing in quality, modern and most importantly energy efficient windows, you can create and maintain a comfortable indoor temperature throughout the entire year and reduce your energy bills. Energy efficient windows tend to include double or triple glazing, low-E coatings and insulated frames. 

• Boosting your aesthetic appeal: Adding large windows to your space can offer a picture-perfect view to your space and provide a synergy between the outdoor and indoor spaces of your home. 

Creating Stylish Bathrooms 

Your bathroom shouldn’t be looked at kind of sanctuary within your home where you go and have a relaxing moment at some point throughout the day… To modernize your bathroom, you must carefully pay attention to the details. Clean lines, luxurious finishes and smart technologies are all commonly requested features in new bathrooms. 

• Smart Technology: Smart faucets, digital shower/tub controls, heated bathroom floor, smart mirrors amongst many other innovations can be incorporated in your bathroom to add convenience, improve user experience and provide a state of the art or luxurious experience to your bathroom. 

• Minimalistic Design: Sometimes less is more. Especially when creating aesthetically pleasing bathrooms. This includes features such as frameless glass showers, floating vanities and minimalistic features. You can complement these choices by opting for more neutral and monochromatic colour choices in combination with sleek surfaces that make your bathrooms be more timeless. 

• Eco-Friendly Fixtures: There are great choices when it comes to water-saving faucets, low flow toilets and energy efficient lighting. Not only do these help you reduce your overall environmental impact but also make your bathroom more modern and sustainable. 

Modernizin Kitchens Through Open Floor Plans

Open floor plans (IE: open concept kitchens) are not going away anytime soon. They are one of the most common ways to modernize your home and create a sense of spaciousness and allows for better communication and bonding throughout your home. 

• Better Flow: An open-concept space will make it much easier to move throughout your home and engage with members of your household and simplify engaging with your guests while entertaining them. 

• Multi-Functional Spaces: Open floor plans allow you to create more flexible spaces that serve for various purposes depending on the occasion. For example, your kitchen and living room can turn into a central space for family activities and a home office nook can be integrated into a living room. 

• Social Living:  By removing the walls to create more open concept living, you are removing the walls that prevent social interactions when household members are in adjacent rooms. Taking down the walls will promote social interactions and provide a more inclusive and collaborative environment. 

There you have it! Modernizing your home in 2024 has never been this easy, especially if you have the backing of reputable designers and builders with a track record of craftsmanship and innovation, such as OakWood. 

Don’t wait to make your home the modern oasis you’ve always dreamed of.  

Contact us today or visit our website to take the first step of turning your dream home of a vision into a reality!