12/12/2024

Design Detailing

Design Detailing Experts

How to boost your home’s value by £100K

 

For insights on the biggest trends in renovation and home improvement, take a look at the Rated People Home Improvement Trends Report 2022

 

Whether you’re looking to sell, or you’re just keen to update your home, we’ve discovered this year’s biggest home improvement trends and how much value they can add to your home. 

We analysed 800,000 home improvement jobs posted on Rated People – from new kitchens to loft conversions and painting, and dived into TikTok, Instagram and Google data to uncover 2022’s top trends.

We then spoke to thousands of potential homebuyers about which adaptations and design features they’re looking for the most from their next home and how much extra they’d be willing to pay for each one.

Our research shows if you implemented all 20 of this year’s biggest home improvement trends on TikTok and Instagram, you could increase the value of your home by £105,000!

2022’s biggest home improvement trends

Whilst not every interior design trend is everyone’s cup of tea (we’re looking at you foam mirrors!), TikTok and Instagram are great places to find inspiration.

We looked at hundreds of home improvement trends and created a popularity score for each one by combining the total views on TikTok, with the number of hashtags on Instagram, and the annual UK search volume on Google. We then ranked the trends to reveal the top 20 for 2022.

Natural materials, neutral colour palettes and vintage charm are key trends, with living walls, pampas grass décor, flagstone floors and Cottagecore all featuring in the top 20 biggest trends for 2022. But bold is still popular, with dark kitchens, pink bathrooms, maximalism, and colour blocking also making the top 20 list.

This year’s most popular home improvement trend is Herringbone floors – videos that showcase the flooring have been watched a staggering 72.3 million times on TikTok! There are almost 100,000 Instagram posts about the trend and people have googled ‘herringbone floor’ 40,000 times in the UK over the last year.

Alfresco dining is also a big trend on TikTok, with videos of outdoor kitchens clocking up an impressive 56 million views. The trend also boasts around 450,000 Instagram posts with people sharing their outside dining set ups.

When it comes to kitchens inside the home, green kitchens and dark kitchens are some of the trends taking TikTok by storm. Views for green kitchens have topped 38 million on TikTok and they’ve received almost 10,000 annual searches on Google.

Whilst there are many shades of green to choose from, dark kitchens are also still proving popular. Dark shades can be a punchy design feature, giving you a more interesting focal point within the home, and they’re perfect for making lighter worktops really stand out.

Both Grandmillennial décor and Cottagecore décor also feature in the list. Grandmillennial style sees the likes of Laura Ashley prints, embroidered linens and quirky ruffles making a comeback, and it’s had over 3.8 million views on TikTok alone. Cottagecore decor, a rustic romantic trend, has had over 2.8 million Instagram posts and almost a million TikTok views.

2022’s top 20 home improvement trends:

Rank Trend TikTok views Instagram posts Search volume – annual UK  Overall popularity score
1 Herringbone floor 72,300,000 99,100 40,500 72,439,600
2 Outdoor kitchen 56,000,000 449,000 27,100 56,476,100
3 Living walls 47,800,000 142,000 8,100 47,950,100
4 Green kitchen 38,100,000 88,400 9,900 38,198,300
5 Home office 31,700,000 373,000 1,600 32,074,600
6 Vintage furniture 25,300,000 2,200,000 8,100 27,508,100
7 Dark kitchens 26,500,000 82,200 1,300 26,583,500
8 Neutral decor 20,400,000 1,200,000 320 21,600,320
9 Pampas grass decor 21,200,000 121,000 18,100 21,339,100
10 Wall panelling 18,000,000 76,200 110,000 18,186,200
11 Maximalism 18,000,000 84,400 6,600 18,091,000
12 Flagstone floor 16,300,000 93,200 2,900 16,396,100
13 Painted arches 15,100,000 1,000 210 15,101,210
14 Japandi decor 12,400,000 134,000 2,900 12,536,900
15 Colour blocking 9,300,000 137,000 3,600 9,440,600
16 Green walls 4,700,000 106,000 5,400 4,811,400
17 Kitchen pantry 4,300,000 22,700 2,400 4,325,100
18 Grandmillennial decor 3,800,000 93,300 20 3,893,320
19 Cottagecore decor 946,100 2,800,000 33,100 3,779,200
20 Pink bathrooms 3,300,000 39,100 3,600 3,342,700

How much value the top 20 trends can add to your home

Six in 10 homeowners are planning to recreate at least one of the top 20 trends this year, and if you do all 20, you could increase your home’s value by £105,046!

With so many of us now working from home, the study shows a dedicated home office space can add almost £6,500 to your home’s value.

In second and third place it’s all about the kitchen – a kitchen pantry will add almost £6,000 of value to your selling price and an outdoor kitchen could increase your home’s value by around £5,700.

The rest of the top 10 trends that will increase the value of your home the most are related to neutral palettes and natural materials. Vintage furniture, neutral décor and flagstone flooring can all bump up your sale’s figure by over £5,500. And herringbone flooring, Cottagecore décor and Grandmillennial décor can increase your home’s value by around £5,400.

How much value 2022’s most popular home improvement trends can add to your home:

Rank Trend Value increase
1 Home office £6,368
2 Kitchen pantry £5,757
3 Outdoor kitchen £5,683
4 Vintage furniture £5,643
5 Neutral decor £5,528
6 Flagstone floor £5,527
7 Herringbone floor £5,485
8 Cottagecore decor £5,406
9 Grandmillennial decor £5,398
10 Maximalism £5,394
11 Green kitchen £5,344
12 Living walls £5,263
13 Wall panelling £5,114
14 Japandi decor £4,936
15 Dark kitchen £4,909
16 Colour blocking £4,776
17 Painted arches £4,723
18 Green walls £4,691
19 Pampas grass decor £4,603
20 Pink bathrooms £4,498

The home improvements that add the most value to your property in 2022

Alongside this year’s biggest trends, our research also looked into the home improvements that are now the most attractive to buyers in general. Buyers now want their new home to suit new ways of living, and it looks like having more space, multi-functional rooms, and areas for working out and entertaining are now more desirable.

Topping the list is a self-contained annex, adding an impressive £17,003 to the value of a property, as buyers look for those extra pockets of space around the home. You could also achieve this by converting existing rooms or a garage, or by building an extension or garden room.

Another space-adding improvement is a new orangery or conservatory – this was the fourth most wanted feature in the list, adding over £13,500 to the value of a property.

Having a home gym can add almost £12,000 onto your home’s value. An outdoor entertaining area can increase the value of your home by £11,750 and an outdoor kitchen adds on around £11,500.

If this has inspired you and you’d like to make some changes to your home, you can find trusted local tradespeople right here on Rated People – from bathroom fitters and electricians, to builders and plasters and renderers.

The top 20 value adding home improvements:

  1. Self-contained annex – £17,003
  2. New roof – £15,407
  3. Newly renovated kitchen – £13,877
  4. New orangery/ conservatory – £13,611
  5. New windows throughout – £12,784
  6. Separate kitchen/diner and lounge – £12,379
  7. Large open plan space – £12,103
  8. Home gym – £11,927
  9. Newly renovated bathroom – £11,906
  10. En-suite bathroom – £11,817
  11. Outdoor entertaining area – £11,757
  12. Landscaped garden – £11,741
  13. Home office room, in the house – £11,706
  14. New driveway – £11,706
  15. Garden office room – £11,648
  16. Outdoor kitchen – £11,549
  17. New porch – £11,015
  18. Downstairs toilet – £11,000
  19. New wooden flooring throughout – £10,896
  20. New stone/tiled flooring – £10,876

For more of this year’s home improvement trends, check out the full 2022 Home Improvement Trends Report.