Designing a luxury house or apartment requires you to go through a lot of ideas, observations, and inspirations that go with your living style, functional needs, and aesthetic appearance. Building the beautiful home of your dreams is never less than any achievement or contentment.
In the case of choosing or designing a luxury house or apartment, you can either follow the process of selection or the process of rejection. While finalizing the design overview, the mood board, the furniture, the art pieces, and the storage, the process of selection will put you in the condition of choice paralysis, but here the process of rejection will help you reach finalization.
Deliberately describe your dream
Decide what kind of design you need: timeless, traditional, modern, or contemporary. Prepare a basic layout and room measurement metrics, and most importantly, carefully consider the budget because sometimes dreams are larger than pockets.
Create your mood board
The mood board is a visual presentation of your design inspiration, emotively appealing colors, dream themes, and material preferences to fine-tune your dream design into reality.
Take time to make your mood board clear and coherent. You can take feedback from others, and you can take a little risk with experiments to make your mood board communicate your creativity.
Material selection
Material selection is an important aspect that affects the functionality, appearance, and aesthetics of a design space. Materials can be classified into different types, such as natural, synthetic, organic, inorganic, composite, or recycled, which is why it is very important to carefully understand each material and choose the most suitable materials depending on their origin, composition, and properties.
Different spaces need different materials. For example, a kitchen needs materials that are resistant to heat, moisture, and stains, while a bedroom needs materials that are cozy and comfortable.
Different concepts and themes need different preferences for colors, textures, patterns, and shapes. For example, a minimalist design demands materials that are sleek and simple with a neutral color preference, while a rustic design demands materials that are natural and textured with a warm color preference.
Personalization
Luxury is never about decoration, and decoration never means just putting beautiful objects up. A home—the beautiful home where you love to live, where you want to raise your child, where your aspirations and dreams are taking shape—should be the canvas of your passion and the symphony of the story of your soul.
If you are an art lover, put some thought-provoking art in it. If you are a spiritual person, put stone sculptures of Ganesha and Buddha in your home to welcome calmness like a saint. Don't rush; collect pieces from different places, different cultures, and different tibes and textures.
Detailing of each piece
Each element—materials, wall hangings, art pieces, furniture, floors, and ceilings—should complement each other and not go against each other. You have to maintain harmony to make your story compelling. Floors can set the tone, walls can add character, furniture can add charm, decorative articles can tell stories, good lighting can set the mood, some beautiful rugs can raise the aesthetic resonance, and a few plants can make the space alive.
Have a continuous check on your budget.
During the building process of a house, you will face a lot of unexpected expenses because of the complexity of construction, which involves a lot of parties who need to be paid. Set a contingency fund of 20% of your total budget.
Moreover, design is a journey, not a destination.