If you’ve recently toured a newly-built home, you may have noticed that a couple of things are not there any longer; multi-storey layouts for starters.

Today’s modern homes tend to reflect a practical urban lifestyle, with the family centre being at the heart of the household. Open-plan spaces have become increasingly popular over the years, and it’s not very hard to see why.

The Pros

Lateral living, where a home spreads laterally across a single storey, rather than vertically across several, has been a trending home-design for a number of years now. This open plan structure promotes the interaction among family and friends as walls are no longer impede this. In addition, this floor plan allows the increased ability of dividing your living space to suit your needs, giving you the flexibility to tailor the size of specific areas as you please.

The Cons

Traditionally, open plan structures include an oversized, central room with a kitchen area, a casual dining area, and a living room. The options on how to personalise your living space however are endless. The current dilemma however, revolves around furnishing and interior design. Up till recently, furnishing bespoke living environments has proven to be time consuming, laborious, and worst of all all, increasingly costly. And finding furniture that allows a sense of uniformity across the entire apartment was another headache in itself.

The Latest

We’ve looked around and stumbled upon The One, an interesting furniture fusion concept that incorporates living, kitchen and sleeping areas into a single, competitive, and entirely customisable catalogue. Launching in the coming weeks at the prestigious SaloneInternazionale del Mobile in Milan, The One shall be revealing an entirely new range of design solutions for the entire home.

The Verdict

Design should both reflect as well as accommodate total living; two words that shape a home’s interior design. Your personal space should represent your style, as well as improve the quality of your domestic life. It is for this reason that you should be at the centre of all your plans. Complete furniture solutions are definitely what we’re on the look-out for this year, and what you should be looking out for too.