5 Smart Luxury Home Features to Elevate Your House
Have you ever wondered what ‘luxury’ really means in the context of a smart home?
Does it mean only using the priciest technology possible? Or the most talked about systems on the market? Or is it about stacking gadget upon gadget upon gadget, until your house has more electronics stuffed into it than a tech shop bargain bin?
We’d argue that no, it’s not any of these, and anyone who tells you otherwise is just blowing smoke.
To achieve true luxury with smart home technology, every feature and system must be doing the most it can possibly do for your quality of life.
For some folks, this may mean designing a bespoke smart home from the ground up, with every imaginable bell and whistle. Honestly, we love that.
For others, that means a more streamlined and focused approach, targeting specific goals around comfort and ease. We love that too.
But whichever camp you fall into, these five smart house features are worth investing in for the exceptional value and luxurious edge they give your property.
1. Bespoke Intelligent Lighting Design
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of light in our daily lives. It impacts our mood, how we perceive our surroundings, even how well we sleep and how much energy we have when we’re awake.
So, it stands to reason that one of the most universally applicable luxury features of a smart house is bespoke lighting design.
An expert in smart home design can assess your home’s architecture, helping you determine the best placement for your fixtures.
The goal is to create a layered light effect, with customizable degrees of warmth and illumination. Done right, it can turn even utilitarian spaces into aesthetic oases, and provide effortless control of the whole home from a single, convenient source.
2. Custom Crafted Home Theaters
Most people get plenty of screen time already, so simply upgrading to a bigger monitor or projector isn’t enough to create a true luxury home theater anymore.
Luxury demands immersive sound systems and plush seating, all integrated in a way that takes maximum advantage of the room geometry.
This holistic approach to home theater design creates spaces that go beyond simply watching – they create full-body experiences, authentic to classic cinema. Plus, with advanced automation controls, you’ll be able to bring the lights down, draw the blinds, and roll your favorite film so effortless that it feels like real movie magic.
3. Whole Home Audio Integration
Listening to music, podcasts, and audiobooks at home is another near-universal pleasure.
Smart, whole home audio design lets you take that enjoyment to the next level, keeping you fully immersed no matter where you move throughout your home.
Designing this kind of luxury system requires a trained ear and eye. An expert who can map your home into its various activity zones, select the best speakers based on your habits and the home’s architecture, and integrate it all into a single, fluid system controllable from anywhere.
4. Smart Outdoor Living
These days, some of the best features of a smart house actually belong outside just as much as in. Luxury living has expanded onto decks, patios, and the yards beyond. Pulling this off requires specialized technology, though.
Outdoor smart lighting fixtures, for example, need not only create a relaxed, enjoyable atmosphere, they also need to clearly illuminate paths and social areas. They may also need to be unwired, without sacrificing connectivity or performance.
As for outdoor audio, there’s little luxury in a system that fails to reach the end of your yard while deafening those standing right beneath it. That’s why today’s most elevated luxury homes feature smaller, more distributed, outdoor-specialized speakers, such as those developed by Architechne partner Origin.
This technology can perfectly recreate the sound of a live concert, maintaining even audio levels throughout your landscaping while preventing audio pollution that can potentially bother the neighbors.
5. State-of-the-Art Security Measures
Finally, if you’re going to invest in an elevated luxurious home, you need to also invest in its protection.
That means cutting edge video surveillance and smart locks, facilitating instant access to monitoring and controls no matter where you are in the world.
But this requires more than just rigging up a couple of devices and seeing what happens.
Your security concerns, monitoring goals, and property specifics all need to be taken into account when choosing your technology and setting your monitoring parameters. Customized security, for custom-crafted smart home systems.
Elevate Your Home with Artistry and Technology
Regardless of which systems you pursue, they all need to be tailored to you home to deliver on that luxury promise. That requires an artisan’s touch and an expert’s technical know-how – in other words, exactly the combination that Architechne has to offer.
Our technologists design your solutions from the ground up, guided by your goals and your home’s unique features. The result is a top-of-the-line, seamless experience, with spaces that almost seem to anticipate your needs for you.
For the best technology, best integration, and best support, all executed with a craftsman’s dedication to excellence, you can do better than Architechne. Ready to elevate your home? All it takes is reaching out to our team today!