The AIA Home Design Trend Survey Results

The AIA Home Design Trend Survey is conducted quarterly. Residential Architects and Design Leaders help to identify emerging trends in the house plan market industry.

For Decades the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the American Institute of Building Designers (AIBD) have worked with each other to create more healthy, valuable, secure and sustainable homes.  These organizations are poised to provide leadership and the guidance needed to provide the most cost effective designs for the future.

As seen by the statistics from the survey, functionality is now considered more important then more bathrooms or a larger kitchen in the floor plan.  According to U.S Chief Economist, Kermit Baker, “Kitchens remain the nerve center of the home, doing more with less is the key.” Integrating, kitchens and family rooms will remain a design priority.

Kitchen Trends that ranked important are areas devoted to recycling pantries, computer workstations, and spaces devoted to recharging laptops, cell phones, and PDA’s.

In Bathrooms, the survey found features gaining in popularity, among today’s consumers include water saving toilets, radiant heating floors and universal design elements.

Our newest house plan releases reflect many of the same ideas in the survey.

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