by Choosing your dream home design reflects your persona – from the choice of decors, the colors, the tiles, the lights, the shadows, the patterns, to the styles they portray. It is an amalgamation of your dreams and your preferences. Given enough resources, every person would have a unique taste and style.
“A house is built with walls and bricks, but a home is built with love and dreams’’ – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
So, to mold a home from a house, one needs to think from his heart. In this article, we will be walking through 10 interesting dream home design ideas I think would make your house dreamy!
1. Backyard patio
Who wouldn’t wish for a private weekend retreat in their own homes?! Having a backyard similar to this will make you wanna be at home even on weekends.
Using light-colored brick walls, marble tiles, and pavers would allow the plants to look vibrant. Adding a fireplace and seating would make it all the more lively. If there’s a pool, having wooden decking or patterned blue tiles would make a splash!
Just having a backyard would be moot, if it doesn’t host some leisurely activities that interest you.
2. And for the sides too!
When it comes to owning your spaces leave no stones unturned! Even in small plots, re-purposing the side-yards would be a rewarding endeavor!
Nothing beats Pergolas when it comes to roofing these spaces. These may be partially covered if needed. Those high boundary walls could experiment with vertical gardening or even produce fresh greens for the kitchen. With doors that fully open to this area, they could blend with the interiors seamlessly! Dim lighting the area would highlight those green walls and resonates with the ambiance.
3. The dance of light and shadow
Double height spaces emboldened with natural lighting creates a sense of spaciousness. These can be spiced up a bit by adding some patterns. The amorphous shades and the dance of lights and shadows throughout the day may be soothing to witness.
Deciding to have a skylight space is only half the problem. To decide how the light would interact with the house is the true challenge in design. Using colored glass bottles on walls, jali roofs on steel fabrication or RCC, pergolas, colored glass patterns could help. One major advantage is that there isn’t much difference in costs when it comes to having an adorned skylight over having a plain glass skylight. It also reduces the direct glare from the sunlight.
Having a pool or a water body nearby would allow interesting interactions and reflections with light, that improves the ambiance.
4. Built-in seating
It will be always a perfect space to daydream looking outside. A small hangout space in your house where-in you can sit and relax, read books, do your work and be in your small world. It’s more like being inside and connected outside as well. Try to blend in the space into the surroundings.
It is a great add on to living room-family room-study and bedrooms. Make sure they are on the informal spaces of your house, otherwise there’s no point in giving this. Adding on shelves attached to this will be a good idea for readers out there. Try to make this simple and modern, I mean no bulky cushions or ornamentation. Since we’re leaning on the walls, try to give any wallpapers, dark-colored paints, or any panel work, so that there won’t be an issue of damaging the wall.
5. Swing bed
Nothing might interest the young more than having a swing bed! It could double up as a place to relax in the evening with a cup of tea. Picking up one that syncs with your interior style is a must; be it modern or traditional.
Remember to throw in some pillows on them to keep you warm and cozy. If it overlooks some outdoor activity or your garden, perfect! Wooden or stone flooring may be suggested underneath the bed for better texture and feel. It is an added bonus if you could pair it with a fireplace or a barbecue point in your backyard garden! The hanging could be made of iron or classic ropes; whichever suits the interior!
6. Double height spaces always double the drama
Double height spaces not only look good but also make the house look spacious and of course, bring in more light.
This basically gives a lively vertical connection between the floors of the house. These are often given overlooking living rooms, dining rooms, etc to initiate encounters between the people.
Along with this, it acts as a pressure release. It will help in throwing away the hot air which rises up and make the room cool. This can be achieved by automated windows and translucent blinds. The uses of clerestory windows also would help.
7. Open to sky Bathroom
Why not try something different from the usual? Need not to be fully open, just to let in either skylight, rain, or both maybe.
Adding in plants inside the toilet would be a great idea. It helps in finding tranquility and freshness and be in harmony with nature. Make it too minimal to create serenity. You can go for translucent perforated panels to control the amount of rain and sun coming in, or else skylights for just letting in light.
Or else, extending the toilet and giving a side courtyard also be a good suggestion.
8. The water body, definitely
A pond filled with lotus plants in the interior on the exterior of the house is a bliss to watch, but can also turn out to be a disaster if not treated well. Water bodies always give a cool and earthy look to the building.
Maintaining them is a difficult and important job to be done. Try to blend it in with the surroundings, with the help of landscaping elements, plants, lighting, sculptures, etc to make that more lively. Go for a small fountain so that the water keeps moving. This not only sounds soothing but also keeps away breeding insects.
9. Unique flooring
You can try out different patterns and colors in flooring which makes the room stand out. Always remember not to overdo them, because if the floor speaks out loud that’s more than enough.
Taking in experiments on the floor is a bold decision to make, so you need to do this with uttermost care. If you’re using darker shades on floors, make sure all the other 3 faces are more likely to be done with lighter color shades.
10. The most important ones… Courtyards!
Small or big, courtyards are always a treasure inside a home. For good lighting and ventilation, and for something greener inside. It’s like a small piece of the exterior world placed inside our home.
By providing a courtyard in a room will surely change the dynamics of the room and gives a sense of natural sunbeam. The indoor plants also will flourish in this courtyard making the house breathing.
These are some of the ones which I find interesting to be in my home. There are a million ideas out there for yours too. Incorporating any one of these dream home design will be a good choice. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I do.
Share your ideas below.
Great read!