If you plan on building a custom luxury home in Naples or anywhere in Southwest Florida, it’s time to activate your brain’s decision-maker. You must constantly make important decisions, whether size, floorplan, square footage, architectural style, building materials, plumbing/electrical fixtures, budget issues, or a host of other considerations.

From decades of personal experience working with our homebuilding clients, the general contractors of Naples-based Carlson Harris know that such decision-making can prove daunting. Thus, they recommend that clients start the process with the basics like size, layout, architectural style, and unique design features. For help with design features, we remind clients that Southwest Florida is known for luxurious, high-end homes that reflect a combination of elegance, modernity, and a close connection to our coastal environment. With this in mind, here are a few of the most popular luxury home design trends in our area:

COASTAL AESTHETIC

Given our coastal location, many luxury homeowners in the Naples area desire to meld their home builds with the beauty of our natural environment. Coastal-focused home builds emphasize clean, straight lines with limited ornamentation and convey a contemporary look that feels relaxed and inviting. Where possible, the coastal aesthetic style incorporates natural materials like stone and exotic woods and utilizes white, sandy neutrals, and soft blue color schemes that reflect the natural environment.

INTEGRATION WITH THE OUTDOORS

With natural outdoor beauty and a fantastic climate, Naples-area homeowners want to spend as much time outdoors as possible. Thus, many of our luxury home-build clients strive to integrate indoor spaces with outdoor ones or create outdoor living spaces integral to the home. While brainstorming your perfect indoor-outdoor luxury home configuration, consider the following:

• Outdoor living areas that emulate or extend the features of indoor areas like kitchens and living rooms are all the rage.
• With Naples-area luxury homebuilding, water features like infinity pools, lap pools, integrated spas, fountains, and waterfalls are a must.
• Retractable glass walls that expand indoor living spaces to the outdoors.

GOURMET KITCHENS

Gourmet kitchens are all the rave in Southwest Florida, and many of our custom home build kitchens in the past decade have included:

• Open layouts that seamlessly connect the kitchen with dining and/or living room areas to enhance entertaining.
• High-end custom cabinetry and finish work with exotic woods and unique countertop materials like marble, quartz, and granite.
• High-tech professional-grade appliances designed for efficiency and to streamline gourmet food prep and kitchen chores.

PUT THE SPA IN YOUR BATHROOM

Your luxury bathroom shouldn’t just be for body cleaning, makeup application, tooth brushing, and—“ahem”—using the toilet; today’s luxury bathrooms can deliver a spa-like experience. Potential features of your luxury bathroom can include, but are not limited to:

• Walk-in showers with multiple showerheads, rainfall showerheads, or steam room capabilities.
• Soaking tub with jacuzzi, whirlpool, or other features.
• High-tech saunas.
• Custom vanities to meet desired usage and storage needs.
• Premium high-end fixtures that can include touchless faucets, defogging mirrors, and smart lighting.
• Radiant heated flooring.
• Heated towel racks.
• Natural lighting via skylights and large windows that preserve privacy with clever design elements.
• Enclosed toilet area to maintain the spa-like experience of the remaining bathroom area.

DEDICATED ENTERTAINMENT AREAS

Entertainment rooms are a standard feature of many Southwest Florida-area luxury homes. Today’s entertainment rooms are a far cry from your parent’s den, family, or TV room and they incorporate whatever features you desire to deliver the best in-home entertainment. Consider the following entertainment room basics:

• Home movie theater.
• Multi-TV-screen sports viewing.
• Surround sound or whatever system fits your sound system needs.
• Private bar.
• Mini kitchen.
• Simulated sports platform.
• Games galore (pool, ping-pong, darts, foosball, card/board game tables, computer gaming, virtual reality platform, etc.).
• Dance floor.
• Karaoke platform.
• Jam center.
• And the list goes on….

SMART HOME TECHNOLOGY

We live in an ever-evolving high-tech world, so you probably want your luxury Naples-area home build to reflect this. While the capabilities of “smart” home technologies continue to evolve, your luxury home can incorporate a plethora of smart home technologies, including:

• Voice-activated and/or digital apps that control lighting, security, climate, entertainment, and even your daily coffee-making needs.
• Energy-efficient smart lighting that can adjust according to occupancy or natural light levels.
• Integrated security via surveillance cameras, motion detectors, and intrusion detection that delivers real-time monitoring to your smartphone or other device.

ECO-FRIENDLY DESIGN

If, like many people, you are interested in preserving the environment and ensuring your home build is eco-friendly, consider the following:

• Eco-friendly materials like reclaimed wood, low-VOC coatings, and sustainably resourced materials.
• Rainwater harvesting systems.
• Drought-resistant landscaping.
• Energy-efficient windows.
• High-performance HVAC systems.
• Energy-efficient appliances.

UNLOCK THE LATEST LUXURY HOME DESIGN TRENDS WITH CARLSON HARRIS GENERAL CONTRACTORS

These are just a few luxury home design trends popular today in Southwest Florida. Carlson Harris’s residential contracting experts keep abreast of all homebuilding design trends and are adept at incorporating unique features in their home builds.

For expertise in luxury residential contracting in the Naples, Florida, area, contact Carlson Harris today at 239-352-2460.