How to Stand Out With Your New House Design

Posted by Anna Johnson on July 11th, 2023

If you are in the process of designing a new house for yourself, then you might be feeling some pressure. Why? Because when you are designing a property of your own, there is a certain expectation that it in some way reflects your personality or your tastes. However, unless you have an unlimited amount of budget to throw at the design, and it is situated in the middle of nowhere, you will have certain restrictions which prevent you from being completely outlandish with your design. You may therefore be struggling to make your new property stand out from the crowd, without going overboard and making it stick out like a sore thumb in the local neighborhood. 

Overall, you need to inject a sense of originality and flair, even if you need to toe the line with local planning authorities. To help you do this, there are several approaches you can take. You could work alongside a design team to find a design that works for you and the local community. Moreover, you could create a detailed mood board to draw inspiration from. You could even integrate some ideas from nearby properties, which would help make your home more in keeping with the area. This is how to stand out with your new house design:

Collaborate with a design team 

One of the easiest ways to improve the design of your new build and make it stand out from the crowd is to work with a property design team who can advise you on how to improve it or even suggest ideas of their own. For example, if you are currently grappling with a double storey house design, then the designers could help you come up with innovative ways of overcoming obstacles like land topography and nearby planning regulations.

Create a mood board for inspiration

Another great way to find ways of standing out with your new house design is to create a moodboard of other properties that you like the look of. By doing this, you can clearly see them all together and analyze what you like about each one. You could also lay your own plans out beside these images and see whether you could integrate any design elements of these other houses into yours. If nothing else, it will help get the creative juices flowing and enable you to spark new ideas which could transform the look of your new house design.

Take ideas from the local area

Of course, houses do not exist in a vacuum, and unless you live in the middle of a desert, you are going to have to blend in with the local area in some meaningful way. While many house designers see this as a bad thing, you could twist it around to your advantage. If you are struggling to stand out, then why don’t you just take design elements from other properties in the local area, but do it bigger and better. This way, people will respond positively to your property, as it will reflect the local culture, but it will seem in some way original and bold.