The beauty in building a custom home is the many unique luxurious features you can add to elevate your home. While many of the options can make your home seem more expensive, they are very budget friendly and create an environment that promotes efficiency, comfortability, and sumptuousness.
1. Reclaimed Wood
Reclaimed Barnwood is the perfect way to give your home a rustic aesthetic while also elevating the upscale nature of your custom home. This feature can be added to any room as an accent or as an overall to the space, giving your home lots of character. On top of the physical beauty it emits, reclaimed wood is extremely strong and durable.
In the past, builders used reclaimed wood in warehouses, factories, and barns, making it much stronger than today’s lumber. Because of it’s stability and durability due to weather and climate changes it has seen, it’s often used in high traffic areas such as a kitchen and is equipped to handle the wear and tear of everyday life. Reclaimed barn wood gives your home an original, natural flare without losing any practicality.
2. Wine Cellars
With humid summers and extremely cold winters, adding a wine cellar to your custom Wisconsin home can provide many benefits in addition to keeping your wine fresh.
With wine having perishable properties, it’s important to have proper wine storage considering how much the weather changes in Wisconsin. Wine cellars are temperature controlled to safeguard your wine from losing its flavor and body. Additionally, a wine cellar provides the conveniences of an organized and centralized location, allowing easy access to all of your favorite bottles. It’s perfect for a night in or a day of hosting.
With a wine cellar comes the unique ability to put not only the cellar, but your incredible wine collection on display. This promotes a lavish feel throughout the home while creating an attractive aesthetic and polished space. Adding a wine cellar is an investment to your home. With such an impressive feature, it can increase the overall value of your home.
3. Customized Ceilings
Your ceiling doesn’t have to be plain white drywall. There are many unique elements you can add to your ceilings to magnify the character and grandiosity of your custom home. Shiplap is strong and durable, with clean lines that give your ceilings a unique texture. On the other hand, reclaimed barn wood brings rustic feel into your home, giving a natural feel to your home.
Crown molding can also add texture and elegance to your ceilings. Depending on the style of your home adding crown molding around the base of your ceiling that fits the overall aesthetic will promote an extra charm within your home.
4. Central Vac System
Adding a central vac system to your home has never made cleaning so easy! By placing a central unit in your home, it improves your cleaning efficiency and allows easy access to floor carpet vacuums. Because this centralized unit runs throughout the entire home, there are less cords to deal with as they are embedded in the walls.
While streamlining the cleaning process, a centralized vac systems also improves the air quality throughout your home by reducing the recirculation of dust and allergens. By placing this system in the main, high traffic areas of the home, these systems trap irritants, providing a healthier living space overall.
In addition to the other benefits, the system is budget friendly and improves the overall value of your home. While the initial investment may seem hefty, the longevity of this tool saves homeowners lots of money and time throughout the years.
5. Large Mudroom
While mudrooms are traditionally smaller in size, adding a large mudroom to your custom home can improve efficiency, organization, and cleanliness for your entire family. Mudrooms provide a space to organize items that would typically clutter your home. By adding more space to your mudroom, and thus more storage areas, there becomes more dedicated spaces for specific items, creating a tidier living space.
Because mudrooms are such a high traffic space, having a larger space can allow the space more durability over time. It can also decrease congestion when getting families out the door or home from events.
Choose JFK Design Build
If you’re considering building a luxury home, working with a builder like JFK Design Build can make all the difference. JFK understands all of the unique features that they can add to your homes, along with the pros and cons. JFK’s attention to detail, commitment to quality, and personalized approach ensures your dream home becomes a reality. Ready to start your luxury build? Contact JFK Design Build today and take the first step toward your dream home.
