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ICI Custom Homes has been a custom home builder in Florida for 40 years. Whether you’re looking to build a custom home in Jacksonville, Tampa, Daytona Beach, Gainesville, or any of our other area communities in Florida, ICI Custom Homes will deliver the custom home of your dreams.
You can choose one of our award winning floor plan designs and bump out a room or completely redesign the first floor. ICI Custom Homes has hundreds of floor plans to choose from in our extensive library. You can blend elements from different home plans or completely customize a home plan to fit your individual needs and lifestyle.
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Since every customer wants something different, ICI Custom Homes makes it easy to get exactly what you want in a custom home – without adding substantial costs to your bottom line. Our sales associates and professional in-house floor plan developers pride themselves on spending one-on-one time with you to learn about your wants and needs and then transform your wish list into a final blueprint.
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Many people spend months, if not years, dreaming about dream homes and the elements and features they want for them. And we at ICI Homes especially encourage you not to give up on the ones that seem over-the-top and unnecessary.
We have an entire division, ICI Custom Homes, that specializes in bringing such ideas to life, including a full-on kitchen garden or housing a collection of vintage arcade games.
Read on for more splurge-worthy ideas for your own custom luxury home.
Key Takeaways
Add a residential elevator for convenience, accessibility, and luxury, perfect for aging in place or enhancing multi-story living.
Create outdoor fun with a custom backyard putt-putt course that blends entertainment and design.
Design a next-level pool, from zero-entry access to stunning infinity edges, tailored to your lifestyle and landscape.
With ICI Custom Homes, no idea is too bold, our team can bring even your most imaginative luxury features to life.
Let’s dive in!
An elevator
Forget the commercial ones that make you wish you’d taken the stairs. Today’s residential elevators are as efficient and discreet as ICI Custom Homes customers need them to be. Don’t be put off by those slow, lurching rides in public buildings!
If you’re already thinking about it, there’s cost associated with residential elevators, but one often in line with other luxury custom features. Chose from many styles and sizes, collaborating with your ICI Custom Homes designer and builder to incorporate a residential elevator as a showpiece, or as a neutral feature whose entrance matches other doors on all levels of your new home.
Plus, a residential elevator is a win-win for customers who want to age in place in a multi-story dream home, and provide the same access for other family members and friends.
A putt-putt course
Who doesn’t love goofy golf? And what’s more fun than attacking Florida’s many outstanding mini-golf courses? Hosting your own backyard putt-putt tournaments!
Truthfully, the only limits are the size of your lot and enthusiasm (and your spouse’s or partner’s if they have an opinion about devoting your dream home’s outdoor living space to a 1/25th-scaled pirate ship).
Discuss ideas with your ICI Custom Homes design pro, who can combine golf-course construction resources and landscaping techniques to blend it with your outdoor living area, or conceal it from back-door view.
A next-level pool
We don’t mean Olympic-sized. Unless you do, of course. Pools of all sizes and configurations can be customized in almost unlimited ways, so don that thinking cap if you haven’t and list those dream pool features.
Building for the long haul? Consider making your dream pool zero entry, with no steps or ledges to climb up or down. Swimmers of all abilities and generations can enjoy using it.
Another classic dream-home feature is an infinity pool, where one side visually disappears without the apparent “topper” of a surrounding tile or stone edge or ledge. Material and mechanical trickery are involved, and the water that laps over the infinity edge can function as a fountain, but don’t nix an infinity pool because its background vista may be, say, a new horse barn.
Customized landscaping and hardscaping can provide a beautiful background even if your infinity pool site doesn’t back up to a jaw-dropping natural vista, a point worth remembering for all ICI Custom Homes pools.
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Some things never go out of style when it comes to designing a new custom luxury Florida home, and although we at ICI Custom Homes work constantly with innumerable tried-and-true design elements, it’s never a bad idea to re-affirm some of the foundational ones.
Natural materials, sustainable materials and texture are three timeless custom design features that add beauty, comfort and performance to any new custom luxury home.
Here’s a detailed look at each category, no matter where you are on your new luxury custom-home journey.
Key Takeaways
Natural materials like stone, wood, glass, and linen bring warmth, authenticity, and enduring appeal to any custom luxury home.
Sustainable design choices from energy-efficient systems to eco-friendly materials like luxury vinyl tile offer both performance and timeless elegance.
Texture-rich elements such as bamboo, rattan, and natural stone add depth and character, making your custom home feel both stylish and uniquely personal.
Natural materials
The real thing is unmistakeable. Think stone, wood, glass, bamboo, rattan, cotton and linen as examples.
Granite and marble countertops are icons of bathroom and kitchen countertops and also surface — see what we did there? — as floor tiles.
Wood is an integral part of any ICI Customs Homes home. But beyond framing, flooring, cabinetry and baseboards, it can dazzle as decorative ceiling beams, shelving and furniture.
Glass, whose primary material is sand, can contribute much more than those plentiful strong windows that allow Florida sunshine (but not its heat) to flood luxury custom homes with natural light. Glass can be beautifully etched front doors and cabinet doors, mirrored walls, and one-of-a-kind lighting fixtures.
Bamboo and rattan aren’t wood (more on both below), but can serve decorative wood-like functions, plus dazzle as textural accents.
Love classic drapery but in durable, natural fabrics? Cotton and linen (and sometimes silk) curtains provide timeless backdrops and are surprisingly easy to live with and clean.
Sustainable materials
Design features and materials that are environmentally friendly, sustainable and energy efficient are both timeless and luxurious.
ICI Custom Homes homes also are built to our own EQ standards that prioritize the latest construction techniques and materials, plus top-performing mechanical components and systems. Next-generation insulation ensures interior comfort, and Energy Star-rated appliances operate more efficiently.
Design-wise, luxury vinyl tile and plank flooring options are another example of a sustainable material choice.
Texture, texture, texture
That bamboo and rattan mentioned above? They’re triple winners for natural, sustainable and textural design in your custom luxury home. Both materials’ texture and distinctive color add personality and decor to any new custom Florida interiors and exteriors.
Rattan, derived from palms native to southeast Asia, is strong, pliable and shapeable into myriad smaller furnishings such as chairs, stools and multi-functional side tables. It’s a classic design element in Florida and other tropical and subtropical climates.
Bamboo, whose durable, hollow canes can be fashioned into everything from placemats to window shades to furniture, also can be woven into caning for chair backs and cabinet doors.
But, they’re hardly the only options. ICI Custom Homes customers can tap other natural and sustainable materials mentioned above to create timeless and timely design features.
Use smooth river rock as shower flooring. Consider colored glass tiles as kitchen backsplashes. Frame a home office or casual den with cypress paneling or crown molding.
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When it comes to popular features for today’s custom luxury homes, we all know gourmet summer kitchens, outdoor living rooms and swimming pools that rival the Atlantic Ocean.
They’re often among the most popular requests from prospective customers and certainly so. Florida’s year-round temperate climate is a perfect fit for these iconic spaces in any home design, and we at ICI Custom Homes might even have one or more in our own homes!
But, assuming such de rigueur features, there are many others you might want to consider for your new custom luxury home. Although not thought of as showstoppers, yet done well, they can become much-loved, indispensable havens that you and yours can enjoy indefinitely.
Here’s why you should consider these unique spaces for your custom luxury home.
Butler pantries
It may sound like an unattractive part of some vintage Victorian, but it doesn’t have to be!
Think of a butler’s pantry as the typical kitchen pantry on steroids. It can serve as your sole pantry, or function as the “warehouse” for your regular pantry — the historical role for which it was designed in the 19th century.
Modern butler pantries usually appear as a larger walk-in pantry with additional food-prep space and kitchen appliances. If you’re an enthusiastic entertainer and/or home cook, this space can be a necessity rather than a perk.
Here’s where you store seasonal serving dishes (turkey platters!) and multiple crates of club soda. Tuck away extra flatware, Grandma’s china, and aprons for everyone attending your next barbecue.
And don’t forget to make it a pleasing space. Our pros at ICI Custom Homes can help you create functional yet attractive storage that’s cheerful, colorful and a fun place to access.
Home gyms
Forget the stereotype here, too. We’re not thinking of a set of free weights, a lone treadmill with a ceiling fan and MAYBE a television.
Home gyms in luxury custom homes should be awesome enough to convince you to cancel an existing membership. So list the equipment and features that are must-haves and decide where you’d like to stage this space.
Hint: walking straight from an elliptical into a custom wet-room shower sounds awesome.
Reading nooks
Whether you like curling up with a digital reader or a physical book — or would like to develop that habit — a designated place to read is a real treat.
It’s a way to escape, learn something new, and to encourage children and other reading-averse members of your household to indulge.
Most of us have had to don ear buds or headphones to screen out noisy surroundings in order to enjoy a good book, so purposefully designing a reading nook in your new luxury custom home helps you avoid that by placing it in a quiet area of your home.
Outfit it with good lighting, comfy seating, and a place for drinks, snacks and extra books.
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