Essential Design Details for Resort Style Living - Part I

Thoughtful details turn a modern home into a luxury living experience, and they’re a hallmark of our modern designs for resort style living. In this blog we explore the array of design details that come together to create our modern homes. 

Exterior Views

Upon approaching our properties, the details in the exterior design stand out. Long, strong horizontal lines bring a clarity and simplicity to the architecture, while each home maintains its own singular aesthetic. 

Our Bundy Drive, Laurel Way, Trousdale, and Walker Road houses all present a blend of glass walls, stacked stone, and warm wooden panels, but each in their own unique combination, tailored to the landscape and the project’s design program. 

Biophilic Design

These same elements of wood, stone, and glass, in addition to other organic materials, feature in the interior design of our homes as well. Beyond just adding their visual beauty, the presence of natural elements in indoor spaces has been shown to generate feelings of wellness and wellbeing in a home’s inhabitants. It’s a principle called biophilic design, and it plays an important role in our modern homes for resort style living.

 At our Laurel Way house, stacked stone walls in the foyer add a textured earthiness that contrasts with the smooth glass; at Trousdale, a marble shower displays natural veining in a bookmatched pattern; and at Bundy Drive, living green plants span two stories of indoor wall space, adding color and vibrancy to the interior decor.

Jewel Box Design

Designing each room in a home as an individually thought out, precisely functional space with its own dramatic sensory experience is our version of a jewel box design. 

This concept drove the creation of our Laurel Way house, seen in the petite spa style bathroom with its own private terrace, and in the modern bedroom of our Hopen Place house, which seems to simultaneously exist indoors and outside under the stars, with its floor to ceiling glass walls.   

A jewel box design aesthetic finds a natural home in powder rooms, as these spaces orientated towards guests and entertaining are often where people feel the most comfortable to play with avant-garde, fun, and fanciful ideas.

In the powder rooms of our Laurel Way, Summitridge Drive, and Summit houses details include shimmering wall tiles, hanging globe lamps, geometric sinks with floating faucets, plush furniture, customizable lighting, and textured walls.

Lighting Design

A subtle cohesion connecting rooms in a home can be created with the lighting design. With indirect lighting, interior spaces can be well lit, while remaining minimalist and uncluttered. Ceiling soffits are a design detail that allow us to discreetly house these lighting elements (they’re also great for hiding AC ducts and speakers). 

At our Los Tilos and Bundy Drive houses interior ceilings throughout the homes feature white soffit bands, often around recessed dark wood from which indirect lighting warmly glows.

LED Lighting

Modern LEDs featured in the lighting designs above showcase their ability to adapt to a variety of applications. With their array of customizable colors, they’re a popular choice for lighting interior and exterior spaces. 

In the home movie theater and indoor lap pool at Bundy Drive, LEDs create an otherworldly, immersive experience, and at Summitridge Drive they add a colorful playfulness to the screening room, sauna, and outdoor terrace.

Interior Views

Interior views and visual niches found throughout a property make creative use of space, adding vistas that invite contemplation and a chance to slow down. 

At Laurel Way, a hidden zen garden sits beneath outdoor stairs, revealed when the movie screen has risen and the curtains are opened; a glass floor walkway in the foyer reveals a floorless depth below that merges into a wine room; and an elongated built-in window seat stretches between glass wall views and an art filled hallway.