Luxury Home Plans

Just what is a 'luxury' home? It depends on the eye of the homeowner.

While all homes should provide comfort and function, a luxury home surpasses these basic purposes and offers much more flair. In a crowded city, it could mean a classy yet confined space in an exclusive neighborhood. In more spread out areas of the country, it may have sizable square footage and sit on sprawling acres of land. However you envision your new luxurious home to wind up, you've landed at the right place to start the process. The Luxury Home Plans collection from eplans is the premium resource to find the upscale and up-to-date home designs you're looking for.

Latest Trends

Gourmet kitchens, spacious master bedroom and bathrooms, fitness centers, and outdoor kitchen and living areas are not new ideas found in luxury homes, but they are currently being transformed thanks to some fresh thinking. Check out these trends for inspiration.

Home Retreat -- Homes that promote a healthy lifestyle are surging, and there are many ways to achieve mind and body wellness from your home beyond putting an elliptical in a spare room. Luxury homeowners want the atmosphere and amenities of a resort in the comfort of their own home. Spaces, in particular master suites and fitness rooms, can be taken to a new level if given spa-like treatment. Master bathrooms become a tranquil retreat with a steam shower, deep soaking tub, heated floors and towel warmer. Customized fitness centers can include a lap pool, massage corner, and refreshment area. Luxury homes in mild climates commonly have outdoor kitchens, entertainment and fitness areas that rival their indoor counterparts. Well-designed outdoor spaces enhance a home's livability and add a resort-like feature.

Flexible Spaces -- Today's families are looking for more flexibility, especially city dwellers living in space-challenged homes. To quickly open up or close off spaces that have multiple purposes, such as a den that doubles as a guest room, pocket doors provide the perfect solution. Pocket doors slide into the wall and out of the way, giving you more usable floor space. They can be used in any room of the home, such as dining and living rooms, bathrooms, pantries, or mud rooms. Even in expansive homes, pocket doors add the luxury of privacy to open floor plans. When doors cannot slide into the wall due to your home's design or building materials such as stone, wall-mount door hardware allows a door to be mounted to the outside of a wall, saving floor space and adding unique appeal.

Green Living -- Sustainable home design is a fast growing trend because more and more homeowners are making it a priority. "Green" elements such as eco-friendly and nontoxic building materials are working their way into every aspect of the home. With a gourmet kitchen being an expected amenity in luxury homes, adding products such as high-end energy efficient appliances, recycled glass and renewable woods will help align your home with the green movement.

High-Tech Homes -- Technology that integrates the controls for home entertainment, appliances, security, lighting, and heating/cooling are increasingly popular. Homeowners also want automated technology that allows them to control systems remotely, like turning off the pool lighting from the kitchen.

The possibilities to make your new luxury home distinguishable are endless. The road to begin the journey toward your dream home begins at eplans.

Modern architecture design The Farnsworth House

A classic example for a modern architecture design is Mies van der Rohe’s The Farnsworth House. As one of a long series of house projects, the Farnsworth House embodies a certain aesthetic culmination in Mies van der Rohe’s experiment with this building type. This beautiful house is perhaps the fullest expression of modernist ideals that had begun in Europe, but which were consummated in Plano, Illinois.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) has long been considered one of the most important architects of the 20th century, and his significance to the field of modern architecture is beyond dispute. In Europe, before World War II, Mies emerged as one of the most innovative leaders of the modern movement, producing visionary projects for glass and steel and executing a number of small but critically significant buildings.

Today, The Farnsworth House is owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP) and operated as a house museum by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois (LPCI).“I pointed out to him (Mies) that it (a glass house) was impossible because you had to have rooms, and that meant solid walls up against the glass, which ruined the whole point. Mies said, ‘I think it can be done.’” Philip Johnson speaking at a symposium held at the School of Architecture, Columbia University, 1961.

Tree house design Hunters Hill

As you enter this amazing tree house which is the home and architectural office of Steven Isaacs and Lisa Saville, you can hear the sound of leaves. With soaring eucalypts all around the plot in Australia’s Hunters Hill, what else can you possibly need?

With a challenge of not removing a single tree, the house contractors, Trinium Group have managed to achieve at the entry level, an open-plan kitchen and living areas which flow onto a 12-metre-high deck, perched above never-ending leafy vistas. This tree house design includes a retention of a 30-metre-high eucalypt that rises through the rear, cantilevered deck.


“We wanted the project to be as environmentally sensitive as possible. There would be no excavation and we didn’t want to disturb nature,” Isaacs says.

This eco-friendly tree house design also has an elegant butterfly roof that provides shade, draws in morning light and channels rainwater into 9000-litre water tanks. The perfect tree house.

Zendome home edition

The Zendome home-edition has the organic form of the hemisphere. It can be used in multiple ways in your home and garden area. Be it as a roof for the swimming pool, a temporary guest house, a garden house or simply a beautiful playhouse for the kids, this dome home has it all.

The frame system of the Zendome dome home is constructed of powder coated galvanized steel with a strength of 2mm. 161 poles and junction discs, especially designed for maximum mobility, are assembled following the easy to use colour coding of the Advanced Frame System. The membrane is made of all-weather welded Ferrari® material: Perfect for any given use.

Modern architecture design by ISSHO

The Fudomae apartment’s modern architecture design makes the most of a limited volume while creating a comfortable urban living space . The unique architecture design of each 18 sqm unit provides a living room, kitchen, bathroom and storage.

The tight arrangement of this modern architecture apartment design by ISSHO is transformed into a design expression, particularly through the location and shape of the window, which designates the placement of the bed and other furniture. The window’s angle and height corresponds to both the interior of the room and the scenery outside, linking the Japanese single lifestyle and the natural environment.

ISSHO Architects is a Tokyo based architectural design office that develops building, urban spaces, and furniture.

Prefab home Studio804

Prefab home Modular 4 is Studio 804’s most ambitious project to date. Consisting of seven modules, the 1500 square foot home features a remarkably flexible floor plan anchored by a core of service space that defines the interior, while the seven modules are offset in the middle to separate public and private, creating a bold four-foot cantilever on either side of the house.

In contrast to its contemporary appearance, this prefab home design addresses materiality and energy efficiency concerns. The north facade was kept tight to protect from cold winter winds while the south façade was opened up with broad glass to flood the living space with natural light and take full advantage of the sun’s heat in the winter. The cellulose insulation in the walls, floor and ceiling was made from recycled materials and offers superior thermal and moisture protection.
This prefab home also features many other sustainable materials which include: bamboo flooring, recycled countertops, adjustable thermal window protection, a porous driveway, FSC approved Brazilian hardwood and recycled aluminum siding, ventilating skylights, and a white “cool” roof.

Studio 804 is a design/build program at the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Urban Design focused on the creation of community based architecture. During this final exercise, the students collaborate to bring a housing design to fruition that provides architectural solutions with an emphasis on affordable homes.

Modern architecture design by Kubota

The modern architecture design of this amazing penthouse in Hiroshima, Japan is all about windows. Kubota created this compact urban residence as a horizontal structure design.

Through eliminating the corner frame where two parts of glass meet and by keeping the wall transparent and the ceiling running on towards the view, Kubota Architect Atelier delivers a feeling that you may continue safely and walk on air.