bark Thank You the start of the new year
is a good time to give your home a
makeover this morning we are looking at
the top home design trends for 2019 so
joining us now
Kent fiddley from radiant places and
properties and Sam Clawson from dosti
homes thank you both for coming in and
you guys are all about making sure that
you have a house that is happy that is
healthy and that is going to last
absolutely we are and I think we'd like
to talk about some of the design trends
that we're gonna see maybe in 2019 if
that's okay absolutely so we are looking
down here we are and what I'm noticing
is a whole lot of colors almost Key West
style you are noticing a lot of color I
think the first thing we'd like to talk
about is the fact that we're gonna see
trending in 2019 still a continuation of
the open-concept floor plan okay
that stems to still be preferred for
most families out there we see it
trending on most of the popular
remodeling design shows on TV
I think everyone's heard of chip and
Joanna Gaines and shiplap so we continue
to see that and in Florida we like our
open concepts to really open to the
outdoors as well creating more of a
seamless indoor/outdoor living situation
especially when you have weather like
what we especially when you're referring
to the weather like we keep talking
about this morning absolutely so what
you're talking about basically is
everybody's together so you've got the
kitchen you've got the living room all
in one so you can be cooking you can be
entertaining you can be celebrating with
family without having to separate as
compared to the old days where you had
the kitchen in one spot and then you had
family room elsewhere you were
absolutely correct it used to be
compartmentalized living now we call it
more family friendly living or a family
friendly floorplan and those are very
very important in talking about colors
in these bold colors we're gonna talk
about the exterior of homes and I think
we're gonna see a shift in what the
exterior architecture of homes are doing
in the in the future we've seen a clear
shift away from stucco or more
Mediterranean style homes and a clear
trend towards more traditional homes
where we we're in 2019 I think we're
gonna see a lot more farm
houses more coastal styles okay of
architecture a timeless timeless
classics I like that term that's good
we're gonna see farmhouses we're gonna
see coastal we're gonna see more of what
we call Florida cracker inspired
architecture with large front porches
horizontal lap siding and dormers on the
roof brick is very popular painted brick
accents are also very popular and we
have some samples here what is this
material because it's interesting it is
it's actually fiber cement or
cementitious siding normally people will
see it referred to as hardy board it is
what most people see as horizontal
siding it can come prefinished or we can
paint it in a new and a number of
different colors everything under the
rainbow now here's a question maybe you
have a house that's older can you stick
this on the outside of that home you can
we see that in remodeling quite a bit
where people will choose to take off an
existing cladding and put on this
cladding instead so Kent we want to
bring you in wild light is a huge
sprawling development in Nassau County
you know a lot of people are moving to
the north of Jacksonville
you know Nassau County is an amazing
place you're not far from the airport
you're not too far from i-95 if you do
work in the downtown Jacksonville area
tell me about what you're seeing there
in that community the community there is
more about placemaking
so all those architectural styles that
Sam was talking about are incorporated
there so it's making a unique community
that's about trails and outdoor living a
healthy place to live we're you know we
have a YMCA we're partnering with UF
health and making it sort of that that
place to be outdoors a place to live and
work so we're incorporating a lot of
those architectural styles and the
colors that you see in front of you are
there too so we're more thoughtful about
all the things that we do we have a
pattern book that sort of puts all that
in place it's so that way it's a great
community to live in it more about
placemaking yeah how's the rest of
Nassau County of the community taking it
oh I think it's been very popular we've
had huge success so far it's just really
taking off yeah absolutely well thank
you both for coming in we appreciate it
I know that they can reach out to both
of your companies if they have more
questions we're also going to
post links on our website news for Jax
calm just look under the link section of
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Jenice