Sunday, December 6, 2009

Reviving History With Luxury House Plans

By Paul Hansen

Luxury -- the word itself -- has invaded our brains, used to describe fast food products, cars, cup holders, and of course luxury house plans. But do we even appreciate what it means to be luxurious?

Many people identify luxury as a product of the McMansion generation: sprawling estates meant more as a sign of social status than a genuine home. Others define luxury as being able to keep enough cash in the back to allow the bills to pay for themselves, rather than racking up ulcers over where the money for the next electric bill's going to come from.

As much as we may differ on what luxury means, architects are more than willing to extend their opinions of luxury to our homes. These hard workers draft incredibly elaborate luxury house plans, and despite certain aesthetic differences, they are quite similar conceptually.

Luxury house plans might reference styles from any historical period or culture, but at heart, they push for the same thing.

Reimagining History

The post WWII era is recognized by most home designers as the period where functionality took the driver's seat and style was relegated to the back seat, if it wasn't dumped out the door entirely.

By fiddling with these designs and incorporating them with as many as three or four other styles, architects are crossbreeding their own version of history with artful exuberance. The result? Beauty and intrigue all wrapped up with all the functionality you need.

Conserving Energy

Eco-friendliness is unquestionably "in" and that means architects have turned the environment into a valuable ally. By working with natural sunlight, luxury house plans typically feature numerous large windows and gorgeous skylighting.

The homes themselves are built with recycled materials to keep the proceedings nontoxic and the emissions down low. The concept here is to include nature in the building process rather than run it over, which allows architects to borrow motifs and colors from the natural surroundings to help the home blend into its surroundings.

Entertaining Guests

It's perfectly acceptable for luxury homes to have sweeping external rooms for parties and entertaining guests, even as simple conversation pieces. Even so, these artistic pieces are built with the environment in mind, drawing in the natural elements with physical structures imitating nature with appropriate colors.

In conclusion, luxury house plans can provide environmentally conscious homes with gorgeous colors and styles reminiscent of times long past.

These homes are not only beautiful, but their appeal to the environment will inspire you and allow a space for you to, for once, feel right at home in Mother Nature's arms. - 23204

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