2009 Home Trends on Outlook from Window and Door Giant JELD-WEN

Window and Door manufacturing giant JELD-WEN has just released some of the homeowner trends they foresee in 2009, and apparently, it is a whole new world out there. This year’s trends will be unlike those in recent memory as housing prices are plummeting and homeowners are looking to save both money and their time. Style and decoration considerations have been largely thrown out the window as homeowners look to more practical goals, such as increasing their homes value, lowering their stress, and considering the environment when the home.

The latest trends from JELD-WEN include:

1. Eco-Minded or Economics: 2009 Brings Balance of Both Mainstream and Green

- New options are readily available to homeowners and builders that allow them to “go green” without devastating their pocketbooks.

2. The Stress Free Home

- With debts mounting and personal wealth falling, Americans are feeling more stressed out than they ever have in the past. They are looking for low-maintenance solutions that afford them more free time.

3. Waste Not, Want Not: Homeowners Squeeze More out of Existing Spaces

- With less people moving into a new home, many Americans are making do with the space they’ve got by converting attics or basements as well as outdoor living spaces. These projects offer increased floor plan flexibility.

“The ‘Flip’ mentality of a few years ago has disappeared,” says JELD-WEN product marketing manager Brian Hedlund. “Now people are putting their own personal priorities – rather than resell value – first. That means making their current home as comfortable as possible.” And it could not have come at a better time. With climate change and sustainability largely ignored for the last two decades, Americans have now come face-to-face with the fact that living like there’s no tomorrow requires that at some point tomorrow doesn’t come. Putting off what is important for the future in order to fulfill short-term profits has led the United States into this mess, and in accord with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Americans are finally seeing the benefit of sustainability.

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