I don't think dudes changing under a towel in the locker room, (which I always find hilarious anyway), is related to people wanting more private spaces at home. Open floor houses seem glorious in the photographs, but in real life are noisy/echoey and annoying to say the least.
Want to go take a nap after a long week? If your partner is home, chances are your nap will be disturbed. Especially if you work in an open floor office, you actually look forward to coming home to something where you can shut the door.
Another annoyance is food smells from the kitchen work its way all over.
The other thing is that unless you are facing the ocean, walking around naked in a glass building by night isn't very private. But walls are so XX century. Walls have to be made of glass today...
"new amenities as centralized cooking and catering within a development". Hah. A few years back, my sister rented a place in a 1930s block of flats in London that was designed to have a central restaurant rather than individual kitchens. The restaurant was converted to more apartments due to lack of demand. I guess sooner or later, everything old really is new again.
Yeah, only all the things it says are tame and they make much sense, as opposed to being some extravagant predictions about flying cars and robot assistants.
Other than that, totally like those futurist pieces from the 60s.
Urban areas with easy access to mass transit, ridesharing, etc., usually don't have huge garages. Rurally or in the suburbs, where mass transit is less applicable, people not only store vehicles, but also things like bikes, yard equipment, tools, and other outdoor equipment/toys.
I agree with the trend in home theaters. While a few of my recent projects had traditional "movie theater" designs, the trend is moving towards a more casual setup.
The living rooms, family rooms, master bedrooms all have the same sophisticated surround sound, high quality large LED screens, etc. It's harder now to justify the space and expense of a dedicated theater. I like the idea of a VR-room. Maybe multi-directional moving floor, padded walls, wind simulation, surround sound etc... Now that would make for an interesting home talking point.
As far as kitchens go, the trend I see is this: "Showroom kitchen" with large eat-in breakfast area and family room in one. An auxiliary kitchen connected to this either thru service doors or connected by dumbwaiter in the basement. So people can hang in the kitchen, eat appetizers, open the fridge, open a bottle of wine, etc.. while the heavy cooking prep is done in the service kitchen.
The idea about an "appliance garage"... I don't know... No one is hunting around looking for some appliance they use once in a blue moon. People are always going to have counter-top coffee machines, etc, just sitting on the counters.
As far as master-suites go... The advent of the internet is making people more creative and specific about what they want. What I'm building are really that, suites, like what you would experience in a high-end hotel. Double door entrance with a small anti-foyer, a small study room/area, double door entrances to the master bath and master closets. Sometimes the baths are split into his and her, as well as the closets. The big addition I've been doing lately are adding small, concealed bar areas. Mini-fridge, sink, coffee-maker... who wouldn't want that? Wake up on the weekend, have a steam and a shower, make a cup of coffee and sit out on a private balcony before ever leaving your room.
While this is a niche topic, surprisingly interesting article. Talking about home design trends and which ones they expect to disappear and why.
It might be focused on luxury, but trends often filter. Open plan was originally a luxury feature (in part because construction was more expensive for open plan) and now it is everywhere. Ditto with a master bedroom.
Keep in mind that some of the trends in the article may have gone to the excessive side. Completely open or a master bedroom taking up 1/2 of the living space might fall out of style, but only at the extremes.
Luxury trends filter by design. The greats are told to do something by a client, and the lesser firms copy the greats because their clients want to live like the people that the greats design for.
Edward Bernays has a great piece on this in Crystallizing Public Opinion in the explanation of how getting high end architects to include music rooms in their designs leads lesser architects to copy them and everything they do to stay current, so when the average Joe walks into the hardware store and sees a piano (another Bernays innovation), they think of getting a musical instrument in their music room in their new house, and they think the idea is their own, except for the case that the subtle nudges to spark that idea have all been carefully planned and out in place.
We bought a house recently here in Scotland and we must have looked at 20 houses before choosing the one we bought - all occupied houses had garages and not one was being used to house a car - they were mostly full of random junk.
Amusingly one house that wasn't currently occupied did have a car in its garage - a rather shiny and unused looking Lamborghini.
We ended up buying a house without a garage as we really don't need to collect more junk and our cars do fine outside. Only thing I did check was that it would be feasible to install a electrical charging point so I can finally look at getting an electric car!
[Edit: As expected of a British male of a certain age I am rather looking forward to finally owning my own shed and possibly a greenhouse].
Perhaps things have changed since I was a kid growing up in the suburbs, but back then it worked exactly the opposite way: once you get used to using your garage as a storage unit, you won't go back to parking your car indoors.
I think the 21st century trend is more that garages will shrink and in some cases disappear because "once you get used to not needing to own a car, you won't want to go back". Car ownership is growing rapidly less essential for people who live in big cities and can afford to use uber/lyft for personal mobility and delivery services instead of going out for errands.
I don't think the garage will go away, but I do think we won't store transportation in there - especially if we happen to get mass transit to everyone via self-driving cars or something like that. (Obviously fantasy, but you get the drift).
The garage is so much more than car storage, though - as many others have pointed out, it makes for a grand workshop.
> Millennials don’t like to get naked—if you go to the gym now, everyone under 30 will put their underwear on under the towel, which is a massive cultural shift,” he continues. As gym designers are adapting, so are condo developers.
That's ... just wow. I guess I'm totally out of touch.
As a single guy, I almost never leave my bedroom. The family room with the huge screen TV is rarely used since I torrent most everything. I have a laptop for bed and an attached bathroom. Food delivered by postmates on a lazy day.
[+] [-] jarjoura|9 years ago|reply
Want to go take a nap after a long week? If your partner is home, chances are your nap will be disturbed. Especially if you work in an open floor office, you actually look forward to coming home to something where you can shut the door.
Another annoyance is food smells from the kitchen work its way all over.
[+] [-] woofyman|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] coldtea|9 years ago|reply
Other than that, totally like those futurist pieces from the 60s.
[+] [-] redm|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] jondiggsit|9 years ago|reply
The living rooms, family rooms, master bedrooms all have the same sophisticated surround sound, high quality large LED screens, etc. It's harder now to justify the space and expense of a dedicated theater. I like the idea of a VR-room. Maybe multi-directional moving floor, padded walls, wind simulation, surround sound etc... Now that would make for an interesting home talking point.
As far as kitchens go, the trend I see is this: "Showroom kitchen" with large eat-in breakfast area and family room in one. An auxiliary kitchen connected to this either thru service doors or connected by dumbwaiter in the basement. So people can hang in the kitchen, eat appetizers, open the fridge, open a bottle of wine, etc.. while the heavy cooking prep is done in the service kitchen.
The idea about an "appliance garage"... I don't know... No one is hunting around looking for some appliance they use once in a blue moon. People are always going to have counter-top coffee machines, etc, just sitting on the counters.
As far as master-suites go... The advent of the internet is making people more creative and specific about what they want. What I'm building are really that, suites, like what you would experience in a high-end hotel. Double door entrance with a small anti-foyer, a small study room/area, double door entrances to the master bath and master closets. Sometimes the baths are split into his and her, as well as the closets. The big addition I've been doing lately are adding small, concealed bar areas. Mini-fridge, sink, coffee-maker... who wouldn't want that? Wake up on the weekend, have a steam and a shower, make a cup of coffee and sit out on a private balcony before ever leaving your room.
[+] [-] tbirrell|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] Someone1234|9 years ago|reply
It might be focused on luxury, but trends often filter. Open plan was originally a luxury feature (in part because construction was more expensive for open plan) and now it is everywhere. Ditto with a master bedroom.
[+] [-] matwood|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rm_-rf_slash|9 years ago|reply
Edward Bernays has a great piece on this in Crystallizing Public Opinion in the explanation of how getting high end architects to include music rooms in their designs leads lesser architects to copy them and everything they do to stay current, so when the average Joe walks into the hardware store and sees a piano (another Bernays innovation), they think of getting a musical instrument in their music room in their new house, and they think the idea is their own, except for the case that the subtle nudges to spark that idea have all been carefully planned and out in place.
[+] [-] tonyedgecombe|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] arethuza|9 years ago|reply
Amusingly one house that wasn't currently occupied did have a car in its garage - a rather shiny and unused looking Lamborghini.
We ended up buying a house without a garage as we really don't need to collect more junk and our cars do fine outside. Only thing I did check was that it would be feasible to install a electrical charging point so I can finally look at getting an electric car!
[Edit: As expected of a British male of a certain age I am rather looking forward to finally owning my own shed and possibly a greenhouse].
[+] [-] rfrey|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] marssaxman|9 years ago|reply
I think the 21st century trend is more that garages will shrink and in some cases disappear because "once you get used to not needing to own a car, you won't want to go back". Car ownership is growing rapidly less essential for people who live in big cities and can afford to use uber/lyft for personal mobility and delivery services instead of going out for errands.
[+] [-] Broken_Hippo|9 years ago|reply
The garage is so much more than car storage, though - as many others have pointed out, it makes for a grand workshop.
[+] [-] vondur|9 years ago|reply
[+] [-] bsder|9 years ago|reply
That's ... just wow. I guess I'm totally out of touch.
[+] [-] jack9|9 years ago|reply
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[+] [-] Someone1234|9 years ago|reply
Luxury home features which are popular, which may disappear due to changing consumer trends. How would you title that?
[+] [-] maxerickson|9 years ago|reply