With much longer days of sunlight and warmer weather, Summer in Canada is the ideal time to renovate your house or backyard into a forever home of only your wildest dreams. Here are some of the top renovation trends we have witnessed so far this year:
1. Outdoor Living Spaces
Outdoor living spaces, such as outdoor kitchens, custom decks, and patios became more popular in 2020 during the COVID-19 Pandemic, due to people having to spend more time at home and not being able to go on vacation.
2. Open Concept Indoor Renovations
Popular open concept indoor renovations in 2025, can include, taking out a wall separating your living and dining rooms to create a more modern and spacious kitchen and living room area that flows better. Besides being more functional, open concept living areas can provide more natural light.
3. Eco Friendly Renovations
Some of the most popular eco-friendly renovations in 2025, include: installing energy efficient windows and doors, LED lights, and using more sustainable materials, such as bamboo and reclaimed wood for flooring and furniture. By implementing these more eco-friendly renovations in your home you will not only help reduce the negative impacts of global warming and climate change, but also save quite a bit of money over the long term on reduced energy bills, and from not having to replace incandescent light bulbs, since LED lights last much longer. In fact, LED lightbulbs can last 25-50 times longer than the old kind of incandescent light bulbs, which only lasted up to 1,000 hours V.S. 25,000-50,000 hours for the average LED lightbulb. However, some LED lightbulbs can even last up to 100,000 hours!
4. Smart Home Tech Integration
Some popular smart home tech integrations that we can do is install smart home thermostats, alarm systems, and lighting systems, which can easily be controlled from your smartphone (including creating custom voice commands)
5. Kitchen Upgrades
The kitchen is often seen as the heart of your home, so you want to make sure that this space is as welcoming and comfortable as possible. For instance, by upgrading to more modern custom cabinets and countertops, and stylish light fixtures, such as pendant lights. In addition, when it comes time to sell your house, kitchen updates will pay off huge! One could even argue that choosing to do kitchen renovations can make or break a home sale. In fact, according to a RE/MAX study many real estate professionals say that kitchen renovations can increase your home’s value by 75-100%.
6. Spa Like Bathrooms
We can transform your bathroom into a luxurious spa-like atmosphere with our highly experienced bathroom renovation experts who have been renovation bathrooms for over 20 years. This includes spa-like features, such as rain showers and soaker tubs. And also by adding enhanced lighting to improve relaxation.
7. Energy Efficient Solutions
For instance, improved insulation, solar panels, and more energy efficient HVAC systems. Energy efficient solutions not only help with environmental conservation efforts in Canada, but also reduce utility costs and increase property values.
8. Multifunctional Spaces
With more people working from home, creating multifunctional spaces has become not only useful, but a necessity for many households. For instance, a basement space turned into a home gym or an unused bedroom turned into an office. Alternatively a bedroom can also double as an office space.
9. Colour Drenching
Source: HouseDesigner.com
Colour drenching occurs when you feature a certain colour hue across walls, trim, and furniture in a room. In effect, colour drenching creates an immersive mood-setting environment. Searches for colour drenching have more than doubled on Google Canada this year to 480 searches/month. on Google.ca, and have tripled on Houzz according to Houzz’ Summer Trends Report, which was published at the end of May and represents the opinions of over 70 million homeowners, home design enthusiasts, and home designers.
10. Living Rooms With Light Hardwood Floors
According to Houzz, searches on their website for “living rooms with light hardwood floors” have gone up an incredible 400% in recent months.
11. Fun Zones
Source: Forbes.com (JAUREGUI Architecture Interiors Construction)
In addition to these trends, entertaining “fun zones” have become very popular lately, such as putting greens (up 2x), although searches for billiard rooms, lego rooms, and video game rooms are also up 1.5x year over year.
12. Beverage Stations
Source: Schloegel Design Remodel
Searches for custom beverage stations, such as whiskey bars and coffee bars are up 2x and 19% respectively over the past year on Houzz.
Transform Your House Into a Forever Home With Oak 42
At Oak 42 our highly trusted local London, Ontario renovation experts are here to help make your renovation dreams a reality. From sleek ultra modern kitchens to luxurious spa-like bathrooms. We’ve got all of your home renovation needs covered under one roof! Contact us today to let us turn your wildest home renovation dreams into a reality at 226-448-8450.
