Four trends to look for in Canton
- The Stark County Home & Garden Show runs April 21 and 22 at the Center for Performance inside Hall of Fame Village.
- The show is from noon to 8 p.m. Friday, April 21 and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 22.
- Josh Hostetler, president of the Building Industry Association of Stark & East Central Ohio, shares four trends builders are featuring in today’s homes.
CANTON − The 72nd annual Stark County Home & Garden Show, presented by the Building Industry Association of Stark & East Central Ohio, starts Friday at the Center for Performance inside Hall of Fame Village at 1901 Champions Gateway.
This is the largest indoor home show in the region and features more than 100 area vendors, demonstrations and beautiful landscape displays.
The show is from noon to 8 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday.
The show will feature a variety of home improvement experts, landscapers, artists, craftsmen, bakers, makers, growers and brewers mixed in with live entertainment, including The Shootouts at 1 p.m. April 22.
The 720 Market and gourmet food trucks also will be at the show. Guests can enter to win door prizes, including a $1,000 gift certificate to use with a vendor, a 20-foot-by-10-foot patio deck, tickets to the Red Zone Ferris Wheel, tickets to the Forward Pass Zip Line Ride, USFL game tickets and gift certificates to Don Shula’s American Kitchen, among other prizes.
Admission is $5 for adults. Children 12 and younger get in free. Parking is free.
Each year, the show shares trends in home improvement.
Here, Josh Hostetler, president of the Building Industry Association of Stark & East Central Ohio, shares four trends builders are featuring in today’s homes:
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1. Smaller homes on the rise
In recent years because of COVID, people required more residential space for more purposes, such as home offices. But the trend is shifting to smaller home sizes because of housing market conditions and affordability factors. According to 2022 third-quarter U.S. Census data and National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) analysis, the median single-family square floor area declined to 2,276 square feet, compared to 2,326 in the third quarter of 2021.
2. More bedrooms and bathrooms
According to the most recent data available, only 9.2% of new, single-family homes have two bedrooms or less, while 44% of new homes had three bedrooms and 36% had four bedrooms. Four-bedroom homes increased for the second year in 2021.
The majority (62%) of new, single-family homes have two full bathrooms. According to an NAHB analysis, since 2005, most new homes have two full bathrooms. And 93% of homes 5,000 square feet or larger had three of more full bathrooms.
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3. Patios are preferred to decks
For the sixth consecutive year, 2021 showed that the share of new homes with patios increased. New homes with decks are trending in the opposite direction, although they are popular in certain parts of the country, including New England.
4. Two-story foyers on the decline
In 2021, most new, single-family homes were built without a two-story foyer, an entranceway inside the front door with its ceiling at the second-floor ceiling level. In the U.S., new homes with two-story foyers dropped 4% to 25% in 2021, the lowest level in the last five years. Many homebuyers consider two-story foyers energy-inefficient, and they have been on the decline for the last decade.
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