Imagine entering your home and thinking you have entered a vacation or getaway resort. You look around, and every design choice makes you feel relaxed, invites you to a comfortable time, and makes you want to spend your day doing absolutely nothing but chill.
If you want this for yourself, then redecorate – resort style.
But you must know that creating this resort-style experience in your living area is not just about the aesthetics. It is about creating a space that contributes to your well-being and offers an everyday escape from the demands of life. To do this, you must incorporate particular design elements and conveniences carefully.
The following sections discuss what it will take to create a resort-style experience at home.
Design Outdoor Living Areas
The biggest pull of the best resorts is how they make their outdoor spaces look like places you want to live.
Resorts build outdoor spaces to be comfortable enough for visitors to relax, have meals, play, and socialize. They achieve this by setting out swimming pools, characteristic seating, and seating arrangements, ambient lighting, and perhaps a fire pit or grill.
A vacation resort’s outdoor space’s main feature is always the water feature, which is where your custom swimming pool comes in. Rather than the regular, customize your swimming pool to suit your design taste. Discuss your goals with a professional, and they will bring your dream pool to life. Build your new-look yard around this swimming pool and enjoy the accompanying peace.
You can incorporate shade features like umbrellas and weather-resistant materials to protect your seating and other design elements.
Add Natural Elements
Adding natural elements to your home during your redesign is a cheat code, regardless of the look you are going for. Resorts are particular about this, as you typically see potted plants in their hallways and large trees, shrubs, and bushes on their grounds.
Since you want your home to look like a resort, take this bit more seriously than most. Incorporate a serene garden area or introduce elements that make your home look like it is right in the middle of the woods. Polished wood, stone, bamboo, and grass should be part of your redesign, along with house plants and aquariums. Get an indoor fountain if you can afford to. They make rooms calmer, and the sounds from the falling water are refreshing to the mind, body, and soul.
Create a Spa-Inspired Bathroom
Spas are a fixture and a feature of any resort you can think of. People go away to get treated and relax at these spas with their saunas, cryotherapy rooms, and facial massage parlors. While you may not build all these into your living space, you can make your bathroom into a mini-spa!
Focus on comfort and luxury when you redecorate. Include features such as a rainfall showerhead, a soaking tub, or a steam shower for an upgraded bathing experience. Use calming colors, plush towels, and scented candles to induce a calming environment. More importantly, introduce natural elements and soft lighting in your redesign.
Embrace Open and Airy Spaces
Ventilation is one of the most chronically underappreciated facets of home design. Poor airflow is usually not noticed until a foul odor starts coming from somewhere in the house. It is also greatly overlooked because many building codes do not enforce proper ventilation techniques.
This is also why many people spend all the money they make to get away, breathe new, fresh air, and rejuvenate themselves. But you do not have to do this all the time if your home is just like those resorts that offer this getaway.
When you want to redecorate your home, look into an open floor plan that allows simple traffic from one part of your house to another. Remove walls that your house could do without and build in large windows or sliding doors for more natural light to filter in.
Add Luxurious Touches
Resorts are renowned for luxury. If your home must look like a resort after redecorating, you should not compromise on luxury.
Everything from your paint to your lighting choices, your seating, and the style of your yard must scream luxury. Invest in fine linens, plush rugs, contemporary art, and whatever else that is luxurious.
Augment these with accessories that reflect your style while also creating the atmosphere of a vacation getaway. Again, do not compromise on luxury when remodeling your house to look like a resort, or it will just be another redesign.
Intentionality is key if a resort-style experience at home is the aim. Whether you are leaving it in the hands of a professional or doing it yourself, follow the steps outlined, and you will be amazed at the final result!
Published by HOLR Magazine.