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.

Ready for your new custom luxury home? Talk to ICI Custom Homes here.