Indianapolis Design Trends: Styles to Look For in the 317

In the latest Indianapolis home design trends, there’s a focus on incorporating flexible spaces that enhance the functionality of many areas of the home, including laundry rooms and more dedicated flex spaces. With the trend towards smaller homes with more open plans, designers are creating more spaces with a focus on making the most of what’s available. Laundry rooms naturally double as storage, but are also well suited to being converted into a mud room, a small office, or a family organization space where schedules are kept. A murphy bed is the perfect way to transform any room into a flex space. The ability to fold away the bed gives you the opportunity to use the space as an office, play room, hobby space, or anything else you might imagine.

As we start to move away from the trends of the past decade, one countermovement has emerged. It’s probably a design trend you’re already familiar with, if not by name – maximalism. Going by the philosophy “more is more,” maximalism is an expression of yourself through your design in a more “honest” way, intended to show off every aspect of who you are and what your space is. Maximalist spaces are often brightly decorated, with an abundance of patterns and textures and an emphasis on quantity. With that said, maximalist spaces are carefully curated – after all, just having a lot of stuff is less maximalism and more just clutter. Maximalist design is about bold expression, and showing off who you see yourself to be. If you’re designing a maximalist space, make sure you ask yourself if each decision you make is really “you.” If its not, don’t do it!

One thing you can be sure you’ll need if you decide to go for a maximalist design in your home is display space. Its hard to show off who you are if you can’t show off at all! Display units in common areas offer the opportunity to create a modern cabinet of curiosities, while an entertainment center can nicely blend your television into the background when not in use. Remember to think big and bold, but remember that a space should be packed to be properly maximalist. Consider smaller display spaces to really maximize (haha) the lived-in, abundant feeling.

Keep in mind how easily maximalism can turn to clutter if you don’t treat your space with care and respect. Keeping your collections well pruned, so to speak, is both important to maintaining livable maximalism and much easier with custom display and storage. Closet Factory custom organization and display spaces allow you to conform your space to your taste, rather than having to adapt your taste to the space you have.

While homes are trending a bit smaller, high ceilings are becoming more popular. Higher ceilings attract more attention to themselves, which means it’s becoming more trendy to incorporate the design of the room into the ceiling as well. Consider painting high ceilings with an eye catching color to draw the eye upward, or continue a wallpaper from the walls onto the ceiling to really tie the whole room together. If you live in an apartment with exposed ductwork – usually found in older downtown cores – consider hanging drapery from the ceiling to obscure the less attractive elements like duct work and plumbing. While this will physically lower your ceiling, if you use a light color sheer fabric, it can actually make your space appear much brighter as the fabric diffuses the light.

Plant patterns – and plants themselves – are particularly trendy right now. They help blend a space with the natural world, and can have a calming effect. Plant patterns work particularly well for places where you are meant to be alone; they create a feeling of refuge and pleasant solitude which might not suit common areas as well. Think offices, bathrooms, even bedrooms if you’re looking to enhance the feeling of calm and relaxation.

And if a more natural feel is appealing to you, you might like the Cottagecore style! This style modernizes the more traditional rustic woods and hard-worn furniture by adding white-washed furniture and a sense of nostalgia for the idealized world of the American Prairies. Simplicity of design and purpose are important to Cottagecore, as is a much brighter feeling than traditional rustic.

While the design trend in the area is toward smaller homes, not everyone gets what they need from these more open plans. With many people working from home or even learning from home, having our own space – one that is truly all yours – has never been more important. While it can be quite expensive to completely remodel your home to add rooms (not to mention the square footage you lose), you can transform any room into an incredible work or study space with a custom office.

Creating study spaces within kids rooms will make them much happier and better able to concentrate than working on the kitchen table or their bed, and they can keep all of their important documents and school work in one easily organized space. Virtually any room can be transformed into a home office, but we recommend creating a “flex space” like we discussed at the beginning.

Of course, what could be trendier than a well organized wardrobe? Custom closets are a perennial design trend for anyone looking to get more from their closet than the wire rack you’ve seen everywhere. And no matter what trends you follow, a custom closet from Closet Factory is sure to be exactly what you’re looking for. We can match, compliment, or contrast any style with our incredible selection of materials, accessories, and design options. Closet Factory systems are truly custom: your designer works hand in hand with you every step of the way to create the space you’ve dreamed of, and once you’re satisfied, every piece of your system is cut in our factory to your specifications to ensure it fits your space perfectly.

If you’re ready to follow the trend of custom organization, give us a call at 317-812-0304 or visit our factory at 3250 North Post Road Suite 265 Indianapolis, IN 46226. We look forward to meeting you!