Updated On: December 18, 2023 by 
Aya Radwan
The dream of having your own luxurious home is what we all dream of. Luxury homes are as varied in style as human preferences. Many elements make a home more luxurious, from the design phase to the installations and the refined finishing touches. We bring you the main elements to consider when designing or looking for your luxury home, whether you opt for a rustic feel throughout your space or aim for a futuristic abode.
What is a Luxurious Home?
Many elements make a home luxurious. When you enter a space of grandeur decorated with the latest technology, high-end finishing touches, and eye-relaxing furnishings with a prime location, you’ve entered into a luxurious home. Many would argue about the elements that make a home luxurious; some would choose location and living space as the main two elements, while others would argue that the interior design of a home is what makes it luxurious. We do not doubt that combining the two sides will create the ideal luxury home. This home will be the perfect reflection of the owner’s personality.
Why Are Luxurious Homes Special?
Luxurious homes are special for the uniqueness they radiate; when you enter one, you’re transported to an enchanting place with incredible features. Luxurious homes are dream homes; they have all the ideal aesthetics, finishings, decorations, amenities, location and the added benefit of the latest technology. Nearly every year, a new trend sweeps the world of luxury homes with possible changes in interior design, the addition of further amenities or a new technological advance, all to make your home more luxurious.
What Colours Make a Home Look Luxurious?
When you think of a luxurious home, you naturally think of white spaces or light colours. However, interior designers resort to seven colours, or hues, to make a home feel more expensive. These colours are black, white, terracotta, rust, blue, green and ochre. Each of these colours has a different meaning, and each accentuates your luxurious home differently.
You can use some colours in certain rooms that best suit them, such as blue hues in offices and green in kitchens. A brilliant idea to try is to add an accent wall in the home’s largest room or in each room if you like. This accent wall has a different colour than the rest of the walls in the house and creates a unique feeling in the space.
Colour also extends beyond the walls; it can be the theme of your luxurious abode. Choosing the right colour for each room to draw out the best of your home decor. You can thread the colour of your choice into the decorations or finishing touches, such as curtains, decorated wallpaper, furnishings or ornate designs. Suppose we use the trendy colours we mentioned.
In that case, we can suggest blue for ideal colour saturation in your home office, rich velvet green or terracotta curtains for an earthy feel for your living area or library and a black-themed powder room paired with a golden-infused black sink. Use ochre in cushions to elevate a room’s elegance, rust to bring warmth, and classic white for elevated spaciousness, cleanness, and finesse.
What Makes a Home Luxurious?
Several elements make a home luxurious; these elements differ from one place to another. However, there are undisputable elements that a luxury home needs to captivate its visitors. We can equate luxury to the attention to all the fine details in a home, from the initial feeling you get when you enter the space, a pleasing interior, refreshing natural light that brightens up the space, and opulent colours to enhance the deep essence of the place.
Adding the latest technology to create a smart home is one of the aspects people view as luxurious. However, some of these elements are subjective; we will focus on the indisputable elements of luxury living with some additional tips on how to make your home luxurious.
Location
The first element of a luxurious home is its location within the city or countryside you’re looking to buy in. This location greatly helps determine the value of the space you want to buy. The location also depends on the buyer’s preferences; you might prefer a remote location outside the city and over the highway to facilitate your transport. Some might prefer an oasis close to natural parks or reserves; others might prefer a marvellous extension of the sea to feel the rhythm of the waves.
In contrast, some feel a prime location close to schools or educational facilities is ideal for them to suit their need to be close to the children’s schools. Another detail to add here can be high floors; some luxury seekers prefer higher floors, such as the penthouse in a luxury tower that overlooks the bustling city.
High-end Finishing Touches
The finishing touches are the final stage in your luxurious home decoration. These last fine touches can either close the luxury circle or break the aesthetic altogether. A statement piece in a minimalist room will assert your aesthetic and immediately capture a visitor’s attention. High-end Finishing touches also include utilising the latest technology, from smart lighting to security features and audio and home theatre options; technology is an impressive way to customise your luxurious home.
High-end Finishing touches include benefiting from soft lighting that radiates relaxation in its respective areas and heading for bolder choices in offices, cooking spaces and sports areas. Our last tip in this category is smart decluttering. Don’t throw everything into the room and hope for the best; add layers to create a more refined interior. You can add throw pillows to plain-coloured sofas, colourful rugs to create contrast with wooden floors and a throw blanket on the back of your favourite lazy-boy chair.
Light Fixtures
Lighting in your luxurious home ought to enhance your house’s overall look and feel. These lighting fixtures intertwine with natural light to complete your home aesthetic. The shape and size of the fixtures depend on your room’s overall theme. A vintage chandelier and wall fixtures will fit perfectly if the room boasts a retro style.
If you’re aiming for a futuristic or minimal visual, simple and mono-toned chandeliers and fixtures will be more fitting. Lighting fixtures, in particular, are the final piece to highlight all elements in the room and choosing the main pieces is pivotal. This choice also includes candle spots, especially if you’re decorating a bathroom, a spa or a relaxing area or adding a warm aesthetic to a cosy room. If you’re decorating a dining room, whether you should use candleholders, lanterns, or opt for a chandelier as the centrepiece is also something to consider.
Plants
Adding plants to your luxurious home has two parts: the plant itself and the plant pot, which has recently gained significant importance in luxurious homes. A mixture of short plants and tall pots significantly changes the room’s aesthetic. For this reason, it’s best to choose a plant and plant pot that complements the room and its decor. The latest plant pot trends include metal and ceramic pots with a touch of colour from the usual terracotta and texture to authenticate the feeling.
The way you choose to display your plants can elevate your luxurious home. You can choose to feature them on shelves on a special wall where they share the space with smaller antiques or decoration books. Another interesting way of displaying your plants is by weaving them with lights and through the ceiling; this works best for outdoor spaces. You can hang the pots from the ceiling for an unconventional display, using innovative materials for your pots, such as rattan baskets and brass hangers.
Interior designers have several favourite plants to use to change a room’s ambience. Christmas Cacti is a year-round favourite, for it blossoms under any conditions. They use Anthurium and Hoya Carnosa, which are low-maintenance and bring spring into the house. Meyer Lemon is another designer favourite with its refreshing-smelling flowers in early spring.
Wallpapers
Wallpapers are a magnificent way to make your home more luxurious and are easily changed afterwards for a complete makeover. Choosing the right wallpaper is essential to add the touch you need. Luxury wallpaper includes numerous designs and patterns that seamlessly blend with the remaining elements of the room.
The choice between plain, decorated wallpaper or wallpaper with full-painted scenes depends on your vision. We can add that if the room’s furnishings are multi-coloured, this will affect the colour and pattern of your wallpaper and vice versa. A luxurious home has a unified theme throughout each room as one of the house’s parts where all rooms blend together. This fact means that excessive pattern or colour use is incoherent and disrupts the luxurious visual.
Technology and Sustainability
You can incorporate the latest technology with sustainability measures to create your ideal home. The best luxury homes are eco-friendly, where interior designers attempt to preserve the home’s carbon footprint. Using technology has two main aspects. You might prefer enough technology to elevate your luxurious home experience or opt for a completely smart home, with technology as the home’s backbone.
Technology can be incorporated through electrical fireplaces, sensor-activated lights to preserve carbon footprint, and even automated plant watering systems to preserve water. You can set your luxurious home up with smart door openers and automated control of the house’s temperature, all to smart doors with fingerprint and facial recognition. A luxurious homeowner who utilises these technologies can enjoy their elegant abode and rest assured they are helping Mother Earth.
Installations
Luxury home installations include everything from the impression your front door makes to installing heated floors in your bathroom. If your luxurious home is blessed with natural light, ensure your front door’s design utilises this light to give an opulent first impression of your home. The next step is a handy walk-in closet for your outdoor gear and attire, which allows you to come and go swiftly.
Suppose we head to any home’s heart, the kitchen. In that case, we see custom-made cabinets with natural woods or high-quality MDF paired with marble or granite countertops with the latest kitchen appliances ideally installed and elegantly stored. To finish up the kitchen, you may want to add an island to increase the spaciousness and provide additional storage space.
Luxurious installations will also elevate your bathroom with spa-like amenities, a free-standing and deep-soaking tub, and heated towel bars. Even your garage can cope with your home’s luxurious theme when you keep it organised to maximise its original space and create a handy working space for your various hobbies. You can also fit an exercise area, a home office and a lounging area in your garage.
Space
Typically, luxury homes are more spacious than regular homes. This space allows for the seamless incorporation of all the previous elements together. Space also negates any feelings of elements cramped together at home. If the space element is not available in the place of your choice, there are numerous steps to take to make the place feel more luxurious.
To enhance the space element of a luxurious home, you should choose light colours for the walls, or if you prefer wallpaper, choose a simple background with some decorations if you like. The light colours will reflect against everything in the house and accentuate the colours of your ornaments and gadgets. Another point to consider is to avoid gypsum decorations on the ceiling or walls; this will take up the space and radiate a narrow vibe.
The last element to add here is to carefully select the items in your home and how and where to place them. Utilise every space smartly to ensure you’re keeping enough space to make your home look more spacious and organised, and it will help the place feel more relaxing than cramped.
Your luxurious home is your sanctuary; when you take good care of it, it will take good care of you!
