7 Luxury Features to Consider When Designing Your Dream Custom Home

If you are in the process of designing your dream custom home, it’s a wonderful idea to have a list of must-have needs and a list of items that you wish to include if your budget allows. We also encourage home builders to choose a few items that will lend to the home’s resale value and appeal. 

Before you finalize your customized home design plans, look at these 7 luxury features and consider adding them to one of your lists! These luxury upgrades will make you feel incredible about your forever home design and contribute to your home’s value. 

FLOOR-TO-CEILING FIREPLACE

Add a floor-to-ceiling fireplace for a show-stopping centerpiece in your Great Room or open-concept living area. These statement-making fireplaces can be built with brick, ceramic tile, or handpainted tile, depending on your home’s style and aesthetic. 

Another incredible option is to add a double-sided fireplace that caters to both the living room and dining area. A double-sided fireplace works best for ranch-style homes or homes with spacious living areas, but a floor-to-ceiling fireplace is a wonderful, eye-catching luxury upgrade for any living room. 

PET UPGRADES

If you are a pet parent you know how much daily work goes into keeping your furry friend healthy and happy. Adding pet-friendly features to your home can not only contribute to your pet’s quality of life but also create ease in your daily routine. 

One pet upgrade to consider is a built-in feeding and watering station. This helps your pet’s food and water dish look intentional. A custom pet feeding station also keeps things looking aesthetically pleasing and tidy. 

Our favorite pet upgrade is adding a pet bath or dog shower station in the laundry room. Tell our friendly home designers what kind of pet you have! For larger dogs, it may be helpful to include a bathing station with doors to keep your pet positioned between the outdoors and the utility room. This barrier makes bath time quick and easy and keeps your pup from tracking in mud and dirty paws.

Read more about this year’s customized home design trends in our blog here. 

CENTRAL VACUUM SYSTEM

Consider adding a central vacuum system to your new construction home. A central vacuum system keeps cleaning tools ready and waiting, eliminating the need to lug around heavy canisters or struggle to find an open electrical outlet.

With a central vac system, you always have a handy way to clean up messes and since these systems maintain consistent suction, they are more efficient than a broom and dustpan. They also add a few thousand dollars to your home’s resale value. 

WINE ROOM

Adding a wine room or wine nook is the perfect way to showcase those exquisite vintages. Add custom storage for wine glasses, decanters, corkscrews, and aerators. Consider adding a wine fridge or wine cabinets in this space as well. 

If you aren’t a wine drinker, you can add a custom area for your favorite beverage. You could include a customized area for your espresso machine, or water dispenser, or to store your flavored syrups for homemade sodas or sparkling waters.

If you love enjoying a cocktail after work, consider creating a personal bar with storage for highball and cocktail glasses, liqueurs, and garnishes. 

ACCENT WALLS

An accent wall or feature wall can add a lot of value in terms of design and aesthetics. Feature walls use color, texture, and building materials to turn a wall into a focal point. 

To keep things on trend, ask your home designer to use natural materials for your feature wall. Naturally-found materials like stone or rock adhere to biophilic design principles which is a current home design theory that encourages incorporating nature-inspired patterns, decor, or materials into buildings and structures. 

To read more about biophilic design theory, please check out our blog here. 

GAME ROOM

A home game room could easily become your family’s favorite room! A finished flex room can add between ten and thirty thousand dollars to the value of your home. 

Customize your flex room according to your family’s needs. Would you get more use out of a gaming room or a home theater room? Some features to consider include adding a powder room, full bathroom, or a powder room that doubles as a pool or guest bath. Our clients love adding in-room luxuries like a built-in bar with a beverage refrigerator, sink, and counter.  

HOME THEATER ROOM

If you prefer to customize your flex space as a home theater room, you can have the room built in levels like a true cinema. Of course, you’ll want to build in a large screen and include storage like custom utility cabinets. 

The great thing about including a modern home theater in your custom home design is that you’ll recover approximately 65% of what you spend on the home theater when selling your home. 

READY TO DESIGN YOUR PERFECT CUSTOM HOME?

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Let us help you design the home of your dreams with the needs of your family, your budget, and your individual aesthetic in mind. Then, due to our extensive network, we can connect you with reputable builders who will exceed your expectations and breathe life into your new construction home. 

See a plan you love in our collection? We can modify one of our exceptional home design plans to accommodate the square footage of your lot. We can adjust our plans to fit your design constraints and personal preferences or design something completely unique.

Call us today or stop by one of our 3 Oklahoma offices so we can get started designing your home and creating a 3D rendering so you can envision your future home and how you’ll spend your days there!