6 Features Your Luxury Home Needs

Many types of luxury home designs are sure to impress whether the home features a traditional design or has a more modern take. The unifying key to luxury is amenities and features that pamper the owner in their own home. If you are lucky enough to live in a well-equipped and decadent residence, you might not ever want to leave!

With intelligent building technology and generous open spaces in luxury homes, it is up to you to connect your design dreams with a serious builder who can achieve your dream space. At Tomkins Constructions, we have a team of award-winning architects, interior designers, and suppliers to deliver the highest quality craftsmanship. We have designed and built the finest luxury homes in Southeast Queensland for more than six decades, evolving with design trends to create luxury homes with modern comfort, design, and style.

As home design trends evolve with technological advancements, there is a lot you can do in a home to add luxury. Some people may choose to add luxurious touches to their home through lavish artworks or designer furniture, but we love to add luxury to a home with inbuilt features. Keep reading to find out 5 features that you need to incorporate into your luxury home.

 1. Alfresco Living & Dining Area

When designing your luxury home, many clients love to add luxury by making the outdoor space adjoining the dining room a central focal point in their home. This creates an Alfresco living and dining area which means that dining spaces are located out in the open air as opposed to within the home. Lifestyle factors are one of the main motivators for building and designing a new home, especially in Southeast Queensland, so many clients love to ensure outdoor living applies to their new home. Features to consider when designing this area to add small touches of luxury are:

• An inbuilt barbecue that includes a sink, refrigerator, and bench
• Outdoor heating such as electrical, gas or an outdoor, purpose-built fireplace
• Built-in sound system
• Dimmable lighting to create a pleasant night-time atmosphere as well as fans to ensure comfort on those warm summer evenings

2. Butler’s Pantry

The butler’s pantry is the ultimate kitchen luxury in a modern home, especially in homes that are lifestyle orientated and have a large focus on entertaining. It helps keep the main kitchen looking flawless while providing extra space for storing kitchen appliances and preparation of meals, giving a perfect explanation as to why it’s a favoured feature in luxury homes. Butler’s pantry’s generally feature:

• Storage for food items
• Kitchen appliances
• Dishwasher
• Sink
• Bench
• Fridge
• Microwave

3. Mudroom

The latest addition to our design features is a Mudroom. Mudrooms were initially a massive feature in American luxury homes but began gaining popularity in Australia as the much-loved Hamptons style infiltrated the nation. Mudrooms provide a small walk-in space accessed from the garage that offers built-in shelves, wardrobes, benches, and seating that can be used as a drop-off area before entering the living area for accessories such as coats, school bags and shoes. This room is situated between the garage and laundry and is equipped with durable cabinetry and tile flooring and has the option of featuring artwork or a full-length mirror for the final checks before exiting the house.

4. Luxurious Lighting

The easiest way to create a luxurious feel in your home is with lighting. Lighting that can be adjusted for different atmospheres and is a fantastic option alongside indirect lighting such as recessed LED luminaires, wall luminaires or many downlights. Indirect lighting not only helps set a mood within a home but also prevents unnecessary exposed lights from taking away from important features within your home. The indirect lighting is often dimmable and can be combined with a few selected droplights to give the house a whole new night atmosphere. Other new lighting trends include:

• Stair railings with integrated LED lighting
• Suspended strip lighting for island benches
• LED interior lighting in wardrobes
• Super-slim LED downlights that are used to highlight specific interior design features

5. Motorised Blinds and Integrated Pelmets

Luxury homes nowadays often have large windows that require blinds or curtains to control light and provide shelter from the sun as well as provide privacy. However, blinds can be quite an eye saw, especially in a luxury home, and can distract from other features of the home. The optimal solution for keeping your home clean is by installing integrated blind pelmets which are built above the window frame and help hide the roller blind base. These blinds can also be motorised for convenience while also providing that luxurious final touch.

6. Smart Home System

Smart home systems are becoming an increasingly popular addition to homes across the world. Smart home systems are integrated within your home and use the latest technologies to automate a range of different areas in your house and help you save energy in your home. These systems are frequently used for:

• Automating tasks such as turning lights on and closing blinds
• Keeping your home secure
• Climate control within the home
• Saving energy by monitoring aspects such as lighting and turning it off when not in use

Generally, smart home systems are fully customisable so you can control which parts of your home you want to control using the system.

Beginning to design and construct your luxury home is an exciting process but can also be intimidating as they frequently require a higher investment. At Tomkins Constructions we have over six decades of experience within the construction industry specialising in providing affordable new and custom-built homes. Our team not only provides current innovative design concepts to our clients but also considers future residential trends and we pride ourselves on providing and personalized experience to each client from the initial concept stage until completion of the project.

If you’re interested in designing your dream home but don’t know where to start, we can help! Get in touch with our team today and we can begin bringing your dreams to life.

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