A lot of people think that a luxury home space doesn’t take all that much work to pull off. Whether someone likes a minimalist look or prefers plenty of personal touches, when it’s luxury, it’s effortless.
That’s quite a common misconception. The luxury design takes a careful eye and plenty of forward thought about keeping the space looking and feeling luxurious. As time goes on, the usual amount of dirt and grime that comes with daily living is still going to build up, but there’s extra pressure on the space to never look impacted by it.
It’s this consideration that brings the hard work. Turning your home into a luxury place to spend your time can’t be an overnight job. It’s something you have to approach with an action plan, no matter the budget, to ensure the effect lasts as long as possible.
But what kind of decisions need to be made here? What does it take to achieve that luxury look? The work consists of points like these.
Landscaping the Front Garden for a Luxurious Entrance
The front garden of a luxury home needs to be just as luxurious as the interior. Because of that, a lot of landscaping work goes into designing the exterior portion. And this isn’t cheap, as you might expect, but it isn’t easy either.
Landscaping usually involves a team of people – all of whom tend to be contractors and/or expert gardeners – working multiple days on a single project.
Depending on the size of the front garden, the project in question may require more manpower and more days to get the work done. Techniques like hardscaping may be required to arrange the land in an aesthetically pleasing way. And when we think of luxury houses, we don’t tend to think of smaller dwellings.
The upkeep for this landscaping is ongoing as well. Weekly maintenance is essential to ensure the grass is kept a deep green color and that any plants don’t discolor or shrivel up at the edges.
Keeping Floors Pristine
No matter if it’s a luxury home or not, it’s going to have floors people walk over. Whether there’s a rule in place about no shoes on the carpet or not, floors get dirty after they’ve had so many feet traipsing across them all day long!
But once again, being able to remove this dirt and keep it off the floor is part of creating a luxury space. It’s why so many luxury homes come with hardwood and thick layers of varnish.
Real wood and a proper seal coated on top makes for one of the best flooring types in the world, seeing as the wood itself is soft yet durable and the embellishment means nothing is going to get through.
Similarly, traditionally high workspaces are made with this repeated use in mind. A garage in a luxury home is likely to have containment mats work for rain, snow, mud, and more laid down to catch anything that might drip off boots or a vehicle.
The walls are also likely to be decorated with oil-resistant paint, to ensure nothing that comes off of tools, tires, shelves, and hands sticks around to stain.
Designing Against Grime and Grease Buildups in the Kitchen
The kitchen is another heavy-use room. This means it’s a space prone to dirt and grime, but in the case of the kitchen, things like grease and fat tend to be much more likely. These can be very harmful when they get into the walls, and when they build up on the backsplash, they certainly don’t look very nice either.
As such, the kitchen in a luxury house needs to be designed to collect deposits of these substances across the surfaces, walls, and even in the grouting between the tiles.
This requires routine cleaning every time something is cooked, but luxury kitchens tend to come with a lot more protective items, like a large cooker hood and plenty of splatter screens in the cupboard.
They’re also more likely to have a specific and specialized oil disposal system. This means grease can be disposed of safely without any chance your plumbing will be affected by it. No chance for build-ups in the pipes also means there are little to no bad odors wafting through the air!
Finding Space to Keep Pipes Hidden
Speaking of pipes, luxury home builders work double time to ensure any plumbing or heating systems are kept well out of view. Cheaper and affordable builds don’t put this time and effort in, and it’s common to see copper piping running around the bathroom or across the kitchen ceiling.
But in a luxury home, a lot of pipes tend to be worked into the walls, in cupboards, or under other architectural features like the stairs. The pipes are kept out of sight, but not so impossible to reach that they cannot be serviced.
Thus you have little to worry about when it comes to keeping the pipes warm when the temperature drops, as they’re already densely packed in. They also won’t be unsightly when you’re trying to decorate, which a lot of homeowners can find incredibly frustrating.
Exterior Upkeep That Gets Harder Over Time
We mentioned it during our point on luxury landscaping, but it’s not just the garden that’ll need upkeep. The entire exterior of a luxury home has to stay looking luxurious over time, but unlike the inside, you can’t just spend a bit of time dusting or wiping things down.
You have to ensure the siding or brickwork doesn’t suffer the worst from the weather. Many luxury homeowners employ tree coverage for this purpose, but this won’t always be possible either.
Designing a luxury home means working with quality materials and preventative measures that keep the look up to scratch. Both inside and out, your home needs to be thought over with ideas like the ones above. Otherwise, all the time and money you spend on your luxury look might fizzle into nothing.
