How to Future-Proof Your Home to Grow with You

Investing in a new home should be something that brings you joy for years to come. New homes represent a promise of a brighter tomorrow, a place where new memories can be made. When it comes to home design, you want to include elements that will also stand the test of time. Incorporating timeless design choices and the latest technology will make your home future-proof (and potentially save you money in the process).

As a Howard Hughes community, our engineers at Teravalis are heavily focused on future-focused amenities and innovations that will continue the legacy of our LEED-certified master plans. Each new element of the community is built with tomorrow in mind, aimed at maintaining our valuable natural resources. Our amenities are designed to continually meet the needs of our residents, so future generations can enjoy life within the community.

There are plenty of ways you can stay focused on the future within your home as well. It’s all about choosing timeless designs and increasing the level of interior flexibility within your home.

Natural Materials Will Always be in Style

Interior design trends come and go, but one that has always remained popular is the use of quality natural materials. These include natural wood and stone for furniture, countertops, tables, and more. Natural, sustainable materials age gracefully, often building a beautiful patina as the years pass.

Many local furniture stores and farmers’ markets offer rustic, handmade decor made from naturally occurring desert plant life and rock. By repurposing local materials found throughout your area, you can to add a touch of the outdoors inside, while staying sustainable in the process.

Neutral Colors Give Homes Flexibility

One big consideration when designing any home is choosing elements that give you the most options for the future. There will likely be a time when you’ll want to redecorate your home, so choosing a flexible backdrop, one that goes with pretty much any future design, is the easiest and least costly choice.

While bolder colors like reds, oranges, and deep blues can create a striking and moody effect, they offer less versatility to add new furniture. Your home should be a place that grows with you and accommodates your needs, should they ever change.

Neutral colors like whites, grays, beiges, taupes, and other earth tones can be mixed and matched with a wide variety of home decor. These colors also create a calm and inviting space, perfect for hosting casual dinner parties and gatherings. Teravalis is situated in the scenic city of Buckeye, which boasts stunning desert landscapes, sunny weather, and a diverse array of desert wildlife. Neutral colors pair perfectly with our community’s vibrant backdrop and help enhance the natural light we receive year-round here in the Valley of the Sun.

Natural Lighting Saves Energy and Improves Mood

Despite numerous advancements in modern lighting, natural lighting from the outdoors remains the best way to illuminate your home for several reasons. From a health perspective, natural lighting from the outdoors fills a room with soft light, which helps to reduce eye strain. Sunlight also helps our bodies produce vitamin D, which aids in the processing of calcium used to build stronger bones.

When it comes to design, soft light helps to fill every corner of a home, providing a tranquil and soothing effect for you and your guests. Adding sheer window treatments like shades or sunscreens will diffuse the sunlight, so rooms are filled with a soft glow, rather than hard sunlight that can damage furniture.

Switching to natural light can help reduce your overall energy consumption, leading to lower utility costs and a smaller carbon footprint. Light filtering treatments like window tint or cellular shades reduce the amount of UV rays and heat that enter the home, so you can rely on natural light to brighten your home without raising your cooling bill.

Natural light will play a crucial part in our community design here in Teravalis. Arizona has the sunniest weather of any state in the country. It’s one of the primary reasons Buckeye has become one of the fastest-growing cities in Arizona.

The city is full of hiking locations and parks where people can enjoy time in the sunshine and live an active lifestyle.

Floreo, our first village in Teravalis, will set aside over 600 acres of open space for parks, trails, and outdoor gathering areas. Our Echo Community Center will also be designed to utilize plenty of natural light throughout, and will include pickleball courts, outdoor sitting areas and a pool for residents to enjoy some fun in the sun.

Flex Spaces Help Homes Evolve

As the years pass, our situations change. New family members are born, we follow different career paths, and children leave for college. As our lives change, it’s important that homes have extra space to accommodate new needs.

Flex spaces are extra spaces in the home designed to evolve with the future. They can serve as a playroom for children, a home office for a new career, or a home gym for staying fit.

Many new homes, including those from our award-winning homebuilders here in Teravalis, will feature flex space, allowing homes to grow with the changing needs of our residents. These spaces will give homeowners unparalleled versatility to personalize their homes, unique to them.

Smart Energy-Saving Technology Reduces Costs

Filling your home with energy-efficient technology and appliances is not only smart, but it can also save you money. Upgrading your home with energy-saving appliances ensures that your lighting and appliances stay relevant and future-proof. They also require less maintenance, and in some cases, are more versatile.

One common example is LED lighting, which provides superior lighting that uses a fraction of the energy that older incandescent light bulbs ever did. LED lighting is also significantly smaller and comes in various shapes and sizes, providing light from almost anywhere in the home.

Here in our community, we’re also doing our part to reduce resident costs. Each new home in Teravalis will feature high-quality insulation, energy-saving windows, and high-efficiency appliances to help residents keep utility costs down. Finally, all new homes will be WaterSense certified, which will help families save around 50,000 gallons of water a year.

The community of the future is being built today, and we’re doing our part to ensure Teravalis will be a home where residents can continue to grow and prosper as time marches on. By providing access to the latest innovations and giving our residents places that accommodate any lifestyle, we’re doing our part to make sure people of all life stages can call our community home.

About Teravalis™

Teravalis is primed to be a 37,000-acre premier master planned community located in the West Valley of the Phoenix metropolitan area, in Buckeye, Arizona. Translating to “land of the valley,” Teravalis is positioned between the White Tank and Belmont Mountain ranges and is committed to embracing the natural High Sonoran Desert beauty. Utilizing innovative technology and sustainable planning, the community will feature unparalleled amenities and wide-open spaces to explore and discover.

Teravalis is a community of Howard Hughes®, known for its mission to curate vibrant communities that elevate the everyday, creating meaningful moments in great places where people can live their best lives – and thrive for generations to come.