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Luxury Home Plans
How to Find Luxury House Plans that Will Meet
Your Unique Needs
By: Mark J. Donovan
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While you can find luxury home plans
on the internet or in a house plan magazine, your best bet is to hire an
architect to generate your specific luxury house plans. Although stock luxury
house plans are much less expensive than hiring an architect you’re far less
likely to get exactly what you’re looking for in a custom luxury home. Also, if
you can afford a luxury custom home, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t spend
the money up front and define your home properly and to your specific tastes.
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Luxury homes by definition are
lavish and indulgent homes. A luxury house typically is a large square
footage home that is uniquely designed and opulently decorated for a
specific buyer in mind. Typically luxury homes are owned by wealthy and
strongly independent minded people. Consequently when this type of person is
looking to build a custom luxury home they won’t find what they’re looking
for in a gallery of stock luxury home plans. And even if they did, the odds
of it being exactly what they’re looking for are low.
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In the past, luxury homes were
limited to the extremely wealthy and famous, however today you can find
neighborhoods of McMansions all over the country in virtually every metropolitan
and major suburb area in the country.
The one benefit of searching on-line for luxury home plans is that you may be
able to find ideas for your unique luxury house plans, and in some cases you may
find much of what you are looking for in a luxurious home.
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sizes and styles. Some of the more common luxury home architectural styles
include Victorian, Colonial, Mediterranean, European, and Traditional. Typically
luxury houses are large, and have at least 3 car garages, pool areas, many
bedrooms and baths, large open kitchen areas, a study or library, media rooms,
gyms and bonus rooms. They also typically include very formal areas as well as
informal areas. In addition, they are typically found on an estate type of
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Besides hunting for luxury home plans
on-line or in magazines, you may also want to check with your local real estate
agents. They may have luxury homes on the market that you might want to take a
look at, if not for actually purchasing, at least for gathering ideas and
understanding the total costs for building, operating and maintaining such
homes. Besides the costs of building a luxury home, operating and maintenance
costs, as well as property taxes are typically very high. Consequently before
going down the primrose path of building a luxury home, taking a close look at
some existing luxury homes is an excellent way to understand the total annual
dollar cost of owning one.
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