What’s Your Style? Interior Design for Your Custom Built Home

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Designing the interior of your luxury custom built home takes time. After you have found an interior designer to work with, you’ll turn your attention to the best ways to highlight the distinctive features of your new home.  

As you probably already know, design is very personal. As you proceed, your new challenges will include remaining true to your vision of your custom built home, while considering your designers vision of your home. Another will be choosing a style that suits your aesthetics as well as the aesthetics of the house, one which showcases decoration and masterfully-crafted elements like fine carpentry and woodworking.

Although you’ve probably been collecting luxury interior design ideas all along, another good place to develop ideas is to look to yourself. What are the things you and your family are interested in? Is there a way to translate one of your beliefs, interests or hobbies into a unique piece of art, design vignette or theme room? Or are your ideas broader than that? Are you more concerned with incorporating green building practices?  

And there are other areas to explore. For instance, do you need a quiet nurturing space for yourself? You can make it a true sanctuary by slowing down to design it exactly the way you want it. Are you an avid reader? You can design that study with the magnificent bookshelves you’ve always dreamed about.   Or are you a wine enthusiast? You can design a wine cellar worth your passion. Whatever you choose to do, incorporating small, elegant flourishes of who you are at heart will make you appreciate the rooms in the custom home you are creating even more.

And if you still need a little more time to decide on which style will best suit you, your family and home, you can go online and take a design style test at www.sproost.com or www.houzz.com. These websites are excellent learning sources and attaching a name to the style and furniture you like best will help you when communicating with your designer.

What space in your custom built home do you dream about designing? Let us know by posting it below. And when you’re ready to pursue custom home building in the Houston area, contact Whitestone Builders, winner of a 2011 Star Award from the Texas Association of Builders. No other builder compares to Whitestone Builders when it comes to craftsmanship and fine carpentry.