Trend Lists Are Everywhere, But This Is Your Kansas City Home Remodeling Edition
We know that every design magazine and blog has weighed in on 2025 trends. However, the Kansas City area deserves its own version, so that you can select trends that match well with your local historic home.
Although a creative design team can find ways to blend your contemporary tastes with the period architecture, three trends are particularly inspiring for a Kansas City home remodel: sustainability, spa-like retreats, and outdoor living spaces.
Architectural Craftsmen listens to what you love and don’t love about your home, learns your taste and design preferences, and helps you create a remodel that fits your needs. Schedule a complementary on-site consultation to find out how we can merge today’s sought-after concepts with your home’s original character and charm.
Where Sustainability Meets the Historic
Sustainability tops the list in any article about trends, but our home remodeling contractors can share our own twist on eco-friendly design: we understand where sustainability and historic architecture meet. Consider these ideas for a historic home remodel that also focuses on nature and resource efficiency:
- Energy-efficient windows: Historic homes built before 1940 aren’t known for their energy efficiency. You can install new, insulated windows that protect you from the cold and reflect heat. Your remodeling team can help you determine whether it’s feasible to maintain the original window frames or build new frames that echo the historic character of your home. Brand-new windows that blend well with your home’s original architectural style are visually appealing, while saving energy.
- Low-flow water fixtures: These fixtures, including toilets, faucets, and shower heads, reduce water usage without affecting a period-appropriate or contemporary design. Low-flow fixtures are available in vintage and contemporary styles, so your kitchen or bathroom project can maintain your home remodel’s historic charm, while still incorporating energy-efficient choices.
- Reused materials: Your home’s historic woodwork, tile, and other materials can be repurposed in unique ways to lessen your environmental impact. Our team finds ways to creatively reuse elements of your historic home for a remodel that are aligned with your preferences and needs.
Work with Architectural Craftsmen to discover how sustainability and energy conservation can work with stunning period details to create a home that is eco-conscious, functional, and historic.
Spa-Like Retreats Designed to Your Preferences
Designing a place in your home where you can unwind and relax is the perfect idea for a home remodel. However, your historic home’s bathrooms may be outdated or too small to truly give you that sense of peace you’re looking for.
Living in a historic home shouldn’t prevent you from a bathroom remodel or expansion that inspires a spa-like experience. Your bathroom can be remodeled to reflect a period style, with modern amenities. Imagine a retreat with vintage tile or period-appropriate cabinetry!
For inspiration, explore our white marble bathroom remodel, and call us to get started on your vision for relaxation.
Unique Outdoor Living Areas
Today’s Kansas City home remodelers add valuable living space to their homes through outdoor concepts that are functional and appealing for private relaxation and entertaining guests.
Consider these ideas for an outdoor living area that seamlessly connects to the indoors:
- Porches and three-season rooms: Many historic architectural styles include rooms that were meant to be enjoyed during the warmer months of the year – and they haven’t gone out of style. Consider repurposing an off-the-bedroom porch as a reading room with a comfortable chair or transforming a sun room for indoor and outdoor gatherings centered around a new fireplace.
- The garage isn’t just for storage: Your garage also presents opportunities to hop on the outdoor entertainment trend during your remodel. For example, our team of home remodeling contractors designed and built a three-car garage and a space for open-air parties with distinct period details.
Partner With Us For an On-Trend Kansas City Home Remodel
Our home remodeling contractors look forward to learning what you find most desirable among the latest home design trends. We’ll develop a remodeling plan completely customized to your taste and taste and implement it with the utmost respect for your home.
Even if the latest trends for architectural design aren’t your thing, our Kansas City home remodeling team can develop a design that fits your vision of how your home should look and function.
Call (913) 963-2246 or contact us online to work with Architectural Craftsmen on a whole-home or room remodel or an addition.
