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NEW YEAR, NEW HOME 5 inspiring trends for 2024
In your bathroom, add a practical and visually appealing sink faucet that enhances aesthetic appeal but also improves functionality. Opt for a model like the Stryke Single Handle Pull-Down Bathroom Faucet, which quickly cleans toothpaste, dirt and small debris from your sink with a nimble pull-down spray wand. The Lumicoat Finish marries function and fashion, offering several options, including Champagne Bronze, Chrome and Matte Black. Best of all, the finish resists water spots and mineral buildup. It easily wipes clean without needing cleaners or chemicals, helping to keep your bathroom spotless.
BRANDPOINT The new year brings an air of excitement and inspiration that many people channel into new projects. This year, use that energy to refresh your home! Your home should be a space that you can’t wait to return to after work, school and errands. With a few updates, you can easily transform your living room, kitchen and bathrooms, infusing these spaces with both style and function. So, get ready to start 2024 with a home update using these five inspiring trends. Embracing organic and natural materials In 2024, consider integrating soothing neutrals and rich earth tones in your home for a beautiful and clean aesthetic. Also, embrace organic and natural materials. They’re timeless and long-lasting, bringing airiness and texture to any room. You can achieve this by incorporating natural stone, wood and rattan materials in furniture, flooring and decor. Together, these natural elements and colors will create an inviting space that brings a touch of nature indoors. Indulging in a spa-like bathroom You don’t have to leave your home to have a spa experience. In 2024, transform your bathroom into a
Mixing styles Why settle for one style? Mixing styles is a popular design trend, allowing you to choose styles that resosink can bring personality faucet in the kitchen that to the space. So, this year, has features that make nate with your multifaceted embrace your creativity cleaning up easier, like Del- aesthetics. Combine tradiand choose a color or patta’s Touch2O Technology. A tional and modern elesimple touch anywhere on tern that makes a statements or vintage and the spout or handle with contemporary pieces. Exment. your wrist or forearm actiperience a journey with Investing in functional vates the water flow at the your home renovation, find spaces intentional inconsistencies temperature where your Function should be at the faucet handle is set. between rooms and spaces forefront of your mind and add more colors, texThe Delta TempSense when upgrading your LED light changes color to tures and finishes. home. Whether you rearalert you to the water’s This year, resolve to uprange furniture to improve temperature and eliminate date your home to suit your any possible surprises or flow or add technology to style and everyday needs. discomfort. Perfect for little Let these five trends inspire simplify tasks, you’ll enones who might not realize you in your home renovahance your daily life at the water is too hot to home. tion and decoration entouch! For example, opt for a deavors in 2024. COURTESY OF BRANDPOINT
serene oasis with spa-inspired features. For example, consider switching your current showerhead with a newer model like the Delta ProClean 6-Setting Hand Shower. This powerful and practical addition to your shower features two massage spray settings so you can relax to the fullest. You can easily restart the water with the same temperature as when you left it off, providing a seamless showering experience while helping conserve water and, most importantly, your
Long-term mortgage rate climbs to highest point in four weeks ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate rose for the second time in as many weeks, climbing to its highest level in four weeks. The average rate on a 30-year mortgage rose to 6.66 percent from 6.62 percent last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. A year ago, the rate averaged 6.33 percent. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, eased this week, bringing the average rate to 5.87 percent from 5.89 percent last week. A year ago, it averaged 5.52 percent, Freddie Mac said. The latest increase in the average rate on a 30-year home loan follows a nine-week string of declines at the end of last year that lowered the average rate after it surged in late October to 7.79 percent, the highest level since late 2000. Still, the average rate on a 30year home loan remains sharply higher than just two years ago, when it was 3.45 percent. That large gap between rates now and then has helped limit the number of previously occupied homes on the market by discouraging homeowners who locked in rock-bottom rates from selling. It has also crushed homebuyers’ purchasing power at a time when home prices have kept rising even as sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slumped more than 19 percent through the first 11 months of last year. The overall decline in mortgage rates since late October has loosely followed a pullback in the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing loans. The yield, which in mid October surged to its highest level since 2007, has largely fallen on hopes that inflation has cooled enough for the Federal Reserve, which has opted to not move rates at its last three meetings, to shift to cutting interest rates this year. Housing economists expect that the average rate on a 30-year mortgage will decline further.
hot water supply. Once you’re done with your shower, use the ProClean spray setting to clean shower surfaces at least two times faster than standard sprays, powering off soap scum and shower messes. Delta bath products make it easy to maintain a clean bathroom. Making statements with accent walls An accent wall can completely shift the design of a room. For example, a floral wall in the bathroom or a tropical print behind the
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