When you’re investing in a custom home, you deserve to go all-out on installing the features that you’ve always wanted. Whether this is from vintage furniture to eye-catching neon lights from Neon Mama or other sites. For those who are still planning the features they want for their brand-new dream home, looking over additions other proud homeowners have chosen can prove inspirational. To kickstart your brainstorming sessions, here are ten must-have features for your custom home:
1. Mudroom
Especially if you’re building a custom home out in the country, having a mudroom is a dream. They allow you to clean off after a fun day outside, which ensures that your living spaces are not constantly filthy and frustrating to clean. Mudrooms can also greatly boost your new home’s equity value.
2. A Master Suite
If you’re spending the money to hire a professional custom home builder, you need to go all out. Including a master suite in your home will make you feel like royalty. Additionally, you can add all types of other additions, perks, and modern amenities to your master suite to make it a true dream come true. Just make sure you speak to your custom home builder before making any final decisions.
3. Hobby Rooms
Hobbies are one of the great joys of life. If you’re building your dream home, it needs to include a room (or rooms) that are dedicated entirely to your hobbies. Whether you enjoy sports, the arts, gaming, or something else entirely, having a room dedicated to your life’s passion will greatly boost your quality of life.
4. A Home Office
In 2024, more people are working from home than ever before. If you’re working from home currently, or hope to in the future, having a dedicated home office is highly recommended. Even if you do not work from home, having a comfortable home office where you can handle at-home work can prove incredibly beneficial.
5. Freestanding Tubs
If you want to make your new home’s bathroom hyper-trendy and built for relaxation, you need to consider installing a freestanding tub. These tubs are perfect for those who want to stretch out in a giant, warm, bubble-filled bath after a long day of work. You can even attach a quality shower head to perfect your investment in a brand-new freestanding tub.
6. Smart Home Tech
When building a new home, you deserve to invest in the best technology and appliances available. Doing so will make your dream home a modern home, after all. These smart appliances not only make your life easier but are much more energy efficient than non-smart appliances (making them that much more worth your initial investment). Be sure to ask your home builder about any pre-planned details that will affect your ability to use smart home tech in your newly made custom home.
7. A Quality Deck
If you love to spend time outside, adding a quality deck or patio to your custom home is a must. Otherwise, you will not have a relaxing, clean place to enjoy the sunshine after a long day of work. If you’re constantly hosting people at your home, having a deck or patio is especially valuable, and can help you from making your living spaces cramped and dirty.
8. Heated Floors
Heated floors are one of the most mind-blowing pieces of home technology that’s come out in the past few decades. Especially for bathrooms, a heated floor can make you feel as though you’re living in a professional spa. That being said, you need to decide on what homes in your custom-built home will have a heated floor before the construction process begins, as adding them mid-construction can prove expensive.
9. A Wine Cellar
Do you love wine? If so, you deserve to install a professionally-crafted wine cellar at the bottom of your custom home’s layout. Not only will this make your new home incredibly fancy, but it will allow you to make the most out of your wine investments in the future. Once you’ve tasted the difference that keeping your wine in a cellar creates, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without one.
10. Fireplaces
Lastly, a cozy fireplace can provide a quality way to perfect the comfort of your brand-new custom home. Be sure to check with local ordinances to ensure you can build a fireplace into your home legally, however. Thankfully, your custom home builder should already know the answer to this question in most cases (especially if you hired them locally).
Perfect Your Dream Home
With the right features, additions, and installations, you can perfect the vision for your dream home. Given how much money you’re investing by choosing to build a custom home, you need to ensure that every detail of the home is accounted for. With the right luck and hard work, you’ll be living in your new dream home in no time!
