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BY TAMMY SCILEPPI
Exciting but practical: Find out what’s in store for home design as 2021 unfolds.
Zillow forecasts that this year will be less about keeping up with the latest style trends,
and more about the features that increase our homes’ functionality and comfort – and
in some cases, even add value.
For starters, some people are saying “bye-bye” to open floor plans.
“We expect to see a rise in intergenerational living in 2021, as young adults settle
in at home and aging parents move in with adult children, sparking a preference for
homes with more privacy features and separated living quarters, like backyard cottages,
mother-in-law suites and double primary bedrooms,” says Amanda Pendleton, Zillow
Home Trends Expert.
This month, another pro – Pauline Debra Noel, CEO and Principal Designer of Debra
Design Group in Hempstead – offers Press readers her cool insights on hot trends. She
has been helping homeowners reimagine and redesign with Zoom rooms, home offices
and gyms, smarter kitchens, fun multifunctional family spaces, and fab home theaters.
She says, “The way we design, the materials we use, how we furnish our homes, will
forever be a WHAT’S INSIDE ltered post-COVID.”
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An inviting outdoor oasis is a perfect escape, rain or shine. (Courtesy of Pauline Debra Noel, Principal Designer, Debra Design Group, Hempstead)
INTERIOR DECORATOR PAULINE DEBRA NOEL OF DEBRA DESIGN GROUP ON THE LATEST TRENDS
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