With social distancing and travel restriction guidelines in place, many homeowners have shifted focus to elevating their outdoor spaces. Even amid economic turmoil and uncertainty, demand for housing industry professionals has skyrocketed by 60% compared to last year, according to Houzz’s latest analysis. The most popular projects are swimming pool design and installation, along with deck, patio, and porch projects. Leads for such projects grew by 334% and 178% respectively. Forbes outlines the growing trends for pools, decks, home extensions, and fencing. Read more to see what the hottest trends are for the most popular projects.
These all have a wellness design component. For example, if your gym closed, then reopened, then closed again, you could very well be looking for a more consistent solution for your daily swim right about now; those ‘quarantine 15’ pounds aren’t going to shed themselves.
Since this latest Houzz report looks at contractor inquiries, rather than trends related to the spaces themselves, here are some glances at what’s going on in each of these areas, generating these calls to home improvement pros. You’ll see a wellness design component in each of them.
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