Here we bring to you the definitive guide on the items that need to be taken into account when talking about modern houses design. To do this we analyse the main aspects of 10 modern houses which have been the protagonists of our section, “home of the week”, all with a spectacular design. Let's talk about various themes of modern facades, of if it influences the size for a house to be modern, of the distribution and the architecture of the houses, price... And for the end of this I will let the designs of houses super modern and more shocking.
In this post, we delve into:
What is a modern house
The definition of “modern” refers to “something fresh”, or something “in line with the current time and advanced in its features”. Obviously, we are left with the second definition: a house is modern when you have a design according to the current time, and advanced in its features, not only because they have been designed or built recently.
For example, if you now me I make a house in the shape of a medieval castle does not mean that this house is modern just by having done it recently.
What then does it mean that a modern home should have a design that according to the current time?
For us that a house has a “design in keeping with the current time, and is advanced in its features” means that it has been designed with a constructive system effective, sustainable, energy efficient. For example, a house can be with a flat roof, brick walls rendered and painted white. All this give a modern image but in the background lurks a construction as the beginning of the century, although he removed the shingles.
It is usually distinguished between traditional houses and modern houses. Visually summarized in if they have tiles or if you have a flat roof, or in such as are the windows: large or small, with bars or without them. All these parameters give an image that is identified with modern or traditional. We believe that for a house to be modern, must be given more of these conditions, as we will see below.
Modern facades
The facade it is the first thing that catches the attention of a home, the first impression we all get before entering to view the interior, then it is very important to match with the design of a modern façade. To do this you must take into account a number of considerations, such as: to see if you have a single plant or several, the size of the house, the exterior surrounding it... etc
The design of facades for homes with a single plant
Talk about composition in a single plant may seem simpler than in several plants, although it is not always so. Clearly the houses are more comfortable since there is no up and down stairs. If the parcel is large you can afford it, but if it is a small plot you will see the coefficient of occupation that marked the zoning regulations and the size of the garden to leave the house.
The design facades of houses of a plant is usually more closed towards the street, to achieve more intimacy, and more open towards the garden and the best views of the landscape.
Is usually normal to the façade open to the garden is the living room, and this be extended by a porch to the outside to have an area vividera outside. To study the orientation of the house it is essential to see where to place the large areas of glass that give continuity to the garden.
As in the case of not being well studied, the effect of the sun, you can find yourself with a house that in summer becomes an oven in an area with hot weather, or with a window to the north, where in winter, you lose all the heat in a cold climate.
When studying the facade must also take into account the size of the house, and as you'll see below is of particular importance when the facades of the house are small.
Facades of modern houses small
When a modern house is small you have to study very well the proportion between windows and walls. It is common in the architecture of a low level that the position of the holes come to be imposed by the internal distribution of the house. For example, find a small window of a toilet in the main façade. This is unforgivable. If the composition is well studied, and the facade of the house is small, look for a clean design and with consistency, always looking for a strategy gaps that ensures privacy to the street or the neighbors, and offer large holes to where you want to, as the garden or the views to the landscape.
Careful with designing large areas of glass in facades where there will be no privacy whatsoever. This can make the inhabitants are forced to live with windows with curtains closed permanently. For that it is better on a wall and open holes to where they really going to enjoy.
As we will see below the internal distribution plays a fundamental role in designing the facade.
Architecture and distribution of modern houses
Not only can we speak of facades, it also imports the internal distribution of spaces, and for this purpose there is to know perfectly the client. Each person (or family) have a way of inhabiting a house, some customs, and each tastes completely different. This is why we are contrary to the great promotions housing where the promoter makes all the houses the same without the possibility of customization.
A house works perfectly for a client, and the same house is a disaster for another.
Usually it gives you the feeling of modern when the spaces are open, spacious, with natural light and avoiding dark areas.
For example there is always the debate of whether the kitchen should be integrated in the living roomin order to give a modern look, or if they must be separated by functionality.
If you opt for the first option, together, you must take care of two issues:
1- ventilation. The kitchen should ventilate perfectly as cooking produces smoke and odors that may not be welcome in the lounge area. If the ventilation is achieved in a natural way much better, so we do not depend on the hood get to pull out all the smell.
2 - The noises. Imagine that you want to put the Thermomix just when your partner is watching a movie... don't suggest it. The most effective way to eliminate the noise between the kitchen and the living room is to have a movable partition, which may be made of glass so as not to lose the spatial continuity, and which can be open all the time except when you go to cook something with odors (fish for example) or with noise.
For example, we can see some images of modern houses with open spaces where they perfectly distinguish the lounge arearoom , dining room and kitchen, although there is not a physical partition. But of course, you have to be a house of great size.
Interiors of modern houses
In the distribution of a modern home do not think only about the areas of day, as are the lounge and the kitchen, also in the night as are the bedrooms and bathrooms.
In the images of these modern homes you can see how it is separated living area and sleeping area, even with elements of modern décor, or height changes of soil or types of pavements.
Let's see one by one the rooms of a modern home, and how we can get around the game.
Modern living rooms
We have already discussed the possibility of joining or separating the living room and kitchen, but there is a theme that a modern house is crucial: the relationship between the hall and the garden. To connect the interior with the exterior and is essential in any modern home.
As mentioned above, having a porch allows us to enjoy an area vividera exterior that if you are well-oriented can be very enjoyable. There are houses with a decor and modern furnishing outside that exceeds even the interior.
In addition to a petition, very common in this type of house is to have a pool modernin accordance with the design of the rest of the house. In another post we will talk about swimming pools, as there is so much variety and possibilities in the design of a swimming pool modern that we prefer to go more in depth in the topic.
Modern bedrooms
If the garden and the areas of the day are important to achieve a good design in a modern house, no less important is the study of the area at night. The bedrooms and their relationship with the baths is a very personal issue. We will see examples of bedroom super modern bathrooms fully integrated and open in the same space, and bedrooms looking for a little more privacy.
Something common in bedrooms of a nice house design is to have the windows floor to ceiling, to be able to go out to the garden from any bedroom. If you are, well thought-out the house, we can talk about main garden and garden and the bedrooms, this second much more private. Some of the modern houses that we even have restrooms open to the garden.
In this case the issue of privacy becomes even more important. Comment if the bedrooms open up to the outside with large windows is essential to study the orientation, since if they open to this will be the light by the morning, something very nice in a bedroom. And if they open to the west will have sunlight in the afternoon, something that in the warmer climates will force you to have a solar protection to achieve a good energy efficiency.
Modern bathrooms
The bathrooms are the rooms of the house along with the kitchen, where they note the passage of time. You just have to see a bath of 20 years ago to figure out how to change the trends in fittings, sanitary ware, wall coverings, and showers or bathtubs.
The latest trends are to large shower trayswith screens to fixed glass and sanitary hung on wall (toilet and bidet) to facilitate the cleaning of the floor.
Faucets sinks depend on the concept that you want to search for, from the above counter basin with faucet coming out of the wall, until the situation is more traditional where the faucet out of the sink.
In the case of the tub gives a lot of play, and if the size of the bathroom allows you may opt for a shower and a bath, the latter exempt with the faucet coming out from the ground. This option will not leave anyone indifferent, and if the bathroom has a large window to a landscaped courtyard with a tree as the combination is simply perfect: privacy and nature.
Some of the solutions that we've talked about, as the bathroom with a landscaped courtyard, are only possible in modern houses big. We will see that the size is not what defines a house to be modern, but in large spaces arise greater possibilities.
Modern houses big
Currently the price of land makes the plots are increasingly small. When it comes to a client with a large plot of land our advice is to always do the house on a single floor. Want comfort at not having stairs, and you don't lose the space that this takes.
In the integration between the house and the garden, if you are looking to do a jardín modern, we advise you do a single plant so that it extends along the plot, and that it was the home to organize the exterior. Although this criterion is to make the home into a plant and with great extension goes against the energy efficiency, which have more surface of walls where you lose or gain heat.
We recommend them because these distributions allow spaces much more rich in the sense that the house itself organizes the parcelto, distinguishing main garden, garden bedroom, garden secondary where to hang clothes.
Obviously all these strategies of houses in a plant are possible only in modern houses big with plots that allow it. If the home is small, you have to opt for other strategies, as we will see below.
Modern homes small
A priori it seems more challenging to make a modern house smallbecause it should be more compact. In this case gets more importance still have spaces open and connected. If the house is very small and combine living room with kitchen, and exterior porches by enclosures glass to get an amplitude much greater.
To be two-storey houses normally, you can choose to provide a double height room to win amplitude. What is important in small homes is that the layout is very clean, with few windows but as large as possible, and use light-colored coatings to reflect the light and are all wider visually. A customer chooses a big house or a small obviously, it will depend on the budget that you have. To do this we are going to talk about the prices of modern homes.
Modern homes prices
This is one of the topics that are most asked by our customers, which even though I love modern houses are not raised by the issue of the price, as have in mind that houses are very expensive.
It is important to clarify that really get a home you have a huge advantage compared to buying it already made in regards to the price. If the purchases made there has been a promoter that has been a benefit to build it (that benefit is lawful as it is the person who risks their money).
If the home you want to do you, or buy a piece of land, hire an architect, a quantity surveyor and a constructor, it means that are you the developerand of course you save the benefit that other promoter would win, thus increasing the price of the house. To save the paperwork and difficulty, which means to manage the contracting of all these professionals, there are companies such as LIVING KITS that give you the key in the hand of your house. This is that you have architects, quantity surveyors, a construction company, and give you the finished house to enter to live.
As in everything, you should avoid prices that are excessively cheapas usually we all know someone who has hired a construction company that has offered you a price very cheap, and half of the work, when there is no turning back, you will ask for more money to finish the house. This has been the day-to-day in the time of the construction boom. There is a popular belief that says that the houses are worth 100,000 pesetas/m2, today would be 600 €/m2.
Currently these prices are not real, and if any constructor you the features you need to run away as fast as possible, since it is simply a price hook to then upload it. The reality is that a home with good finishes, good energy efficiency and a modern look with large windows, usually round between 1,500 and 1,800 €/m2 (up to date prices 2025), depending on the type of foundation that you need, the facilities that the customer wants (especially in air conditioning there are large price differences between one and the other), or the extras that you want, for example smart home automation systems, photovoltaic system... etc
These are real prices although they can vary, of course, in the case of lower grades, especially in coatings and finishes, or upload in case you want to whims or material too expensive. Some of the modern houses that we see now have a lot of that, are authentic whims.
Homes super modern
For the end we left most impressive images of modern houses. Whether for your glass surface, by its huge functional program (very complex), or simply by the location so privileged to have, these homes super modern are a sight to behold. Its appearance is impressive and worth seeing, even though most of us can't never live in them, or do you yes?
