HOME DESIGN TRENDS Your Home, Reimagined
2024
At Pella, our eyes are always on the trends. Our dedicated team of interior design, innovation and product experts attends events and analyzes the market to keep you in the loop. We’re excited to present design trends we are seeing, the style conversations they are driving and products that can help you achieve the look. Let’s jump into the big trends for 2024 and talk a little more about how they can come to life in your home’s design. Inside: T H E T R E N D S
01 Intentional Design
• Designing for community and density • Indoor-outdoor living • Multifunctional spaces
02 Distinctive Capabilities
• Pushing design boundaries • Making an impact with color and material
03 Sustainable Building with the 1,000-year house
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Intentional Design
Improved overall well-being coming right up. Intentional design brings communities and lifestyles together for overall health and wellbeing. Catering the space directly to the needs of the people who utilize it, highlights intentional design considerations for the livability of everyone. New residential footprints are developing with intentional design sensibilities to create communities with quality of life as a core belief. Town centers, residential parks and community farms and gardens are being built with short walkability in mind. This works to foster more dynamic neighborhoods that encourage interaction and help expand a home’s footprint with communal amenities. 2 pella.com
“The houses are a little bit closer to the street. That means the main street in front of your house is beautiful with sidewalks and front porches. This encourages people to wave at friends, go to the park, walk to school and spend time together.” -Austin Tunnell, Founder and Owner of Building Culture
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01 Intentional Design Join us as we explore Pella on Pistache in Carlton Landing — a home and neighborhood embracing holistic, community-focused design.
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About Carlton Landing World-renowned town planner Andrés Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk designed this area to be an enchanting place which fosters a strong sense of community and encourages a healthy lifestyle. The award-winning Carlton Landing is a walkable master plan community in Oklahoma featuring more than 3,000 homes, a town center, a K-12 academy, a destination wedding chapel, an assortment of gardens, parks, pools, farms and amenities to serve guests and residents. Carlton Landing has been awarded the 2022 CNU Charter Merit Award for the Region/Metropolis/City/Town category. 4 pella.com
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DESIGNING FOR DENSE COMMUNITIES In addition to communities being designed with healthy living in mind, they are also being designed more closely together. High-density housing used to mean high-rise apartments, but a lack of land and growing populations are bringing this to suburban areas. According to John Burns Research and Consulting, the average detached new construction community has 6-10 homes per acre and 46% of homes are being built smaller. As communities become denser, traditional home design is changing.
How is Home Design Changing? Ceiling heights are increasing so that the space, while small, lives larger and more comfortably. As a result, the preferred front door height is growing from 8 to 10 feet. Big, floor-to-ceiling windows allow more light to flood the space and connect the homeowners to the outdoors. This connection to nature, known as biophilic design, has been shown to benefit the overall health of the homeowner.
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INDOOR/OUTDOOR LIVING Home footprints might be getting smaller, but it doesn’t have to feel that way. Adding fresh spaces to your home is as easy as looking out a window or opening the patio door. Leveraging patios and decks, no matter how big or small, is good for your overall well-being. Exposure to natural light promotes the production of serotonin, which has been proven to positively impact your mood and reduce stress levels and anxiety. Whether you want to sleep better, breathe higher quality air or reduce your carbon footprint, windows and doors help make a difference in your everyday wellness.
5 Ways Windows Affect Your Health & Wellbeing 1. Improve indoor air quality 2. Help control noise 3. Sleep better and wake more rested 4. Improve energy efficiency and home comfort 5. Improve mood and reduce stress 8 pella.com
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Pass through windows and large doors are perfect for entertaining.
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Make the most of your space with a rooftop deck like shown below.
Experience Rooftop Patio
Living Big on a Small Lot
This custom home is approximately 2,790 sq. ft. with an additional 1,350 sq. ft. of outdoor living space including a screened-in porch with a dual-sided fireplace, a rooftop deck with outdoor kitchen, and three additional porches.
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01 Intentional Design Big budget or small budget?
A seamless indoor-outdoor living space can be created using any budget. Explore these Pella® products to find the perfect inspiration for your project.
Pella 250 Series Premium Bifold Window $$$ Bifold windows feature large panels of glass that fold and stack like an accordion.
Pella Hurricane Shield Series Sliding Window $$ Opens horizontally, gliding on a track from one side to the other. Sliding windows also available on Pella 250 Series. 12 pella.com
WOW ! Window to Watch: Strut Awning
Watch the Window Open Pella® ReserveTM - Traditional Strut Awning $$$$ Large window hinged at the top and swings out from the bottom. A strut awning window is perfect for a transitional entertainment area. Contact your local Pella Sales Representative to learn more about this product.
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See Operation Pella® ReserveTM - Traditional Bifold Patio Door $$$$$ Expansive panels of glass fold like an accordion.
Pella 250 Series Premium Bifold Patio Door $$$ Expansive panels of glass fold like an accordion.
Pella Reserve - Traditional Multi-Slide Patio Door $$$$$ Multiple panels that glide open horizontally and stack.
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Live Big on a Small Budget
Pella 250 Series Premium Multi-Slide Patio Door $$$ Multiple panels that glide open horizontally and stack or pocket.
Achieve indoor-outdoor living on a budget with a 4-panel French sliding patio door. Unlike multi-slide and bifold patio doors, you may not need to consult a structural engineer for this gorgeous style. The expansive glass floods the room with natural light and the bi-parting doors seamlessly connect the two entertaining areas.
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MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE Your space should work smarter and harder. With less interior square footage overall, it is more common that rooms need to serve multiple functions and homeowners need to think creatively about how to set them up. This might mean double-duty rooms to maximize space for daily use, like a home office that also acts as a guest bedroom.
Budget friendly room arrangements
Build a desk across the window to maximize space and light.
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Use a room divider to create privacy between the bed and desk.
Place the desk under the window and use the window sill as extra storage.
Watch the Space Transform This office can easily morph into a guest room. Move the desk under the windows. Pull down the murphy bed and the space is ready for company.
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Distinctive Capabilities
It’s time to choose — where will you invest in your home? While a countertop, paint colors and bespoke appliances commonly make the list, windows and doors can make a big impact. Pella® specialty products and custom products and solutions make a home unique and personal to its owner.
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PUSHING DESIGN BOUNDARIES Windows and doors can impact a space, or amplify a design, based on your exact needs. Make it truly yours with unique shapes, colors and functions. ALTERNATIVE FUNCTION Change a traditional casement window to a tilt-turn window.
SPECIAL SHAPES & BRIGHT INTERIORS Swap a rectangular window for a specialty shape. 20 pella.com
Watch the Window Open
Custom Pella® Reserve, Traditional, Inswing Door. Contact your local Pella Sales Representative to learn more about this product.
MORE PERSONALITY Substitute a traditional front door with a Dutch door.
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See the Space
THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX Consider using a window as a backsplash for your countertop.
Photo courtesy of @michaelakaskel/martirecustom
Want a completely custom look? Bigger changes like new shapes or large-scale sizes can come to life through a conversation with our custom solutions team.
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IN UNEXPECTED PLACES Add light and connect adjoining rooms with a window.
IN THE BATHROOM Hang a mirror from the ceiling or in the window trim.
Transform Your Space with Grilles Grilles and their patterns can create a stylish look that is distinctively yours.
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02 Distinctive Capabilities THE IMPACT OF COLOR & MATERIAL One of the least expensive ways to customize your space is by adding paint or changing out hardware.
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High contrast color schemes are softening. Consumers are no longer gravitating to the combo of black and white that made the farmhouse trend so popular. According to Kiki Redhead, Global CMF and Trend Manager of DesignHouse at Sherwin Williams, stark color combinations tend to feel
Unique Hardware Change up your space by swapping the style or finish of your window hardware.
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cold, sterile and even chaotic in a time when homebuyers are looking for their spaces to evoke a sense of calm. There is now a subtle warming of the blacks to charcoal grays, like Sherwin William’s Iron Ore, which is in Pella’s product collection, and to whites like Drift of Mist.
Low Contrast Color Combinations The media room at Pella on Pistache is a great example of a lower contrast color combo.
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Want more color? Wood windows offer the most color options and design flexibility.
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02 Distinctive Capabilities 3 TIPS FOR DESIGNING WITH COLOR & PATTERN From Rachel Shingleton of Pencil Shavings Studio, interior designer of Pella on Pistache. 1. Find a jumping off point for inspiration. In my experience, color is definitely something that evokes an emotion. Maybe it’s a really amazing wallpaper, an incredible rug or your grandmother’s art. Start there and find little threads that you can pull from. Find the color that makes you happy and roll with it. This can also give you boundaries to work within for a consistent color scheme. 2. Look at the undertones of the hard surfaces in your home. If you have warm tones in the fireplace surround or in your hardwood flooring, bright whites and colors with cool undertones will cause discord in your design.
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3. Just start somewhere. Many people are afraid of color and pattern because they are afraid of making the wrong choice. Take it in small doses when you are starting out. Maybe you add some throw pillows, add art to the walls or paint. You can even start with a smaller space in your home where you feel like you could safely take a risk, like in a powder bathroom or a guest bedroom. Give yourself permission to experiment and get more comfortable with it. With wallpaper, if you are worried about cost or over committing to a pattern, sometimes I’ll say, “well, let’s just do one wall.”
ABOUT RACHEL SHINGLETON Rachel is the color-obsessed designer at the helm of Pencil Shavings Studio, an Oklahoma City-based full service interior design studio that specializes in total room transformations, new construction and furniture selections.
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Sustainable Design
Your home is your legacy. It enriches your life, family, community and planet. That’s why Austin Tunnell, Founder and Owner of Building Culture, designs structural masonry homes and crafts them into healthy, low maintenance, generational assets that grow more beautiful with each passing year.
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03 Sustainable Design SUSTAINABILITY HINGES ON DURABILITY An Interview with Austin Tunnell Pella (P): You’re shining a light on old processes and techniques, with a lens to a 1,000-year lifespan of a home. Can you help explain to Pella’s audience the concept of the 1,000year home?
Austin Tunnell (AT): At the Building Culture, our goal is to figure out how to build for 1,000 years again because we used to know how to build that way. There are so many buildings and cities that exist today that are 500 years old, 1,000 years old and even more. We live in the wealthiest time in the history of the world and in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, yet most of what we build ends up in a landfill in 60-80 years. P: Can you explain how durability is a central factor when discussing sustainability in construction?
AT: As a whole, the building industry is really moving towards obsessing about energy efficiency and our values. And while that’s important to us because we care about our environment, you can’t have sustainability without durability. Sustainability is central to culture and identity. In a lot of ways, we have lost that in America. Architecture is the human habitat and connects the past and the future, as cliché as that is. 30 pella.com
Arches of brick add timeless appeal to any design.
Play ABOUT AUSTIN TUNNELL Founder and Owner, Building Culture Austin’s path into building began in the jungles of Panama where he was first introduced to the idea that how we build shapes how we live. He sharpened his design and construction chops in Carlton Landing, winning 2 national awards in the process and in 2022 bringing Oklahoma City its first new structural brick masonry home in generations — with many more to come.
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03 Sustainable Design That’s why our argument is that the number one way to achieve sustainability is to build buildings that last 500+ years, that don’t have to be rebuilt 10 times. That comes through in quality products, materials and methods that focus on craftsmanship. P: You’ve been quoted dreaming about the next Paris or Florence, describing rich, beautiful cities that are built for people. Can you elaborate
and tell us what it means to design more intrinsically for people?
AT: It’s about human flourishing and how we can facilitate it. That’s really what we’re about at Building Culture. You can see it in our houses that those are expressions that are really manifested from the why of building for people, building for beauty and building something that can be celebrated.
People complain about the suburbs as if it’s cookie cutter. But, it’s not cookie cutter, it’s a bad cookie. The greatest towns, cities and neighborhoods in the world have a very narrow range of housing aesthetics. That’s why it fits together and works like a mosaic. P: How has your personal global experience in building sustainably influenced the more localized work of a community like the Wheeler
Natural stone lintels, as seen above the kitchen sink window, enhance any architectural style with timeless quality. 32 pella.com
RAISE THE DRAMA Instead of using an arch window, use a rectangular window and create the arch using window trim for less cost.
We’ll Take the Window Seat The space in front of a window is an often overlooked area in a home, but this nook is anything but. We love how the breakfast bar and shelving above it spans the width of the window. The result is added storage and seating without sacrificing natural light and how the windows open.
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AT: The Wheeler District and Carlton Landing are people first neighborhoods. The Wheeler District is only a few years into building and it’s just going to get better
with time. The houses are a little bit closer to the street. They’re a little bit closer together. There’s an alley off the back for utility, but that means the main street in front of your house is
beautiful with sidewalks and front porches. This encourages people to wave at friends, go to the park, walk to school and spend time together. Centers are what most neighborhoods are missing. Where you walk 5 minutes and suddenly there’s a coffee shop, a brewery, a taco shop and a playground. Centers create this amazing life and vibrancy. Even if you design the perfect neighborhood, it doesn’t mean that culture and community will absolutely 100% exist. It’s ultimately up to people. We can’t force community, but at the same time, we can prevent it by making it so difficult and so impossible to overcome the physical barriers that it’s nearly impossible to create community.
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For example, a suburban subdivision may have a very active homeowners association that puts on a few big events a year, but that’s not community. You don’t have enough time to get to know each other. It is so much better to have many more smaller interactions than to have few big interactions because you don’t have enough time to talk to people. Where there’s
Pella Lifestyle Series casement window with grilles-between-the-glass and a contrasting foldaway crank handle.
no interaction, there’s no relationship. P: What are some of the more challenging obstacles you face with traditional build techniques in modern settings?
AT: It’s very, very difficult doing anything different and in construction, doing anything different in general is difficult. The industry generally isn’t known for its forward thinking or openness to new ideas, even though what we’re talking about is an old idea. Building
buildings that last hundreds of years and don’t have to be rebuilt several times is something engineers, inspectors, bankers, cities and municipalities aren’t familiar with anymore.
things to overcome with what we’re doing, but at the same time, we believe in it and that’s why we’re doing it.
The way we build today is incentivized and focused on price per square foot. It can be a helpful metric, but it’s a weird way to actually evaluate the value of a community. We believe in building that luxury quality in a smaller box. There are so many
AT: As I’ve become a better designer myself, I’ve actually eliminated some windows in our design. As a designer it’s very easy to put a window wherever it is going look good on the outside or just bring more light in, but what is the purpose of the
P: How do windows help you achieve your people-first designs?
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03 Sustainable Design window? Is it for the light or for the view? We need to think about how the house lives because that is what makes it unique. In an urban context, sometimes you want lots of bright light, but you want privacy too. So, in some ways it makes a little more sense to be smaller sized windows. We’ll do clerestory windows where the windows won’t start until eye level and go upwards from there. Generally speaking, a lot of our designs are more vertically proportioned. For me, in a lot of ways that comes from the human body being vertically proportioned and trees being vertically proportioned, and so actually my favorite window size is 20 x 60. That’s the perfect size if you stand in that, that’s like me. As humans, we like to see faces and like to see people and things including a house. We also think of a lot about health. Indoor air quality can be far worse than outdoors in urban environments. Over the next 20 years, indoor air quality is will become a big deal and windows that vent, whole home filtration systems and other things are going to be really important. 36 pella.com
Create a High-End Look with Backband Trim Backband trim is a type of trim added alongside existing window and door casings to create depth, dimension and enhance visual interest. Follow these steps to execute the look: Cut Trim to Length Put your chosen trim up against your window or door to fit it perfectly around the existing trim you are upgrading. Mark with a pencil and indicate the angle you need to cut with the mitre saw for your desired look. A 45-degree angle is the most popular for this traditional look added to flat casing. Cut the pieces to size. Brad Nail the Trim in Place Firmly hold the cut trim in place and nail the trim every 10-12” from the side. Make sure to slightly angle the brad nailer towards the wall so you don’t damage the trim. Once it is nailed securely in place, fill the holes and sand them down. Add a Fresh Coat of Paint Give your backband trim and moulding a fresh coat of paint in the same color as the rest of your trim. This creates an “it’s always been there” look with upgraded style. pella.com 37
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Pella® Lifestyle Series casement window with matte black hardware
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Windows 101 Start with the basics to find the right window for your home and style.
Bay or Bow Combine fixed and operable windows to create a curve that extends out from a home’s exterior.
Picture Maximize light with stationary windows that do not open.
Single-Hung Bottom sash slides up from the bottom, while the top sash stays stationary.
Double-Hung Two sashes slide up and down to efficiently ventilate.
Casement Hinged at the side and swings outward.
Sliding Opens horizontally, gliding on a track from one side to the other.
Awning Hinged at the top and swings out from the bottom.
Custom Achieve a one-of-akind look with a madeto-order window.
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