Advancing landscapes, beautiful gardens, lush green plants, ceiling light fixtures, state-of-the-art wall paintings, and stunning home decor pieces - a complete package of all these can definitely give you the perfect house you need. But there’s much more to just beautiful landscapes and chandleries in today’s new age home.
If you’re building a new house or remodelling your precious old one, you might want to consider a few additions to it. These are not only trendy but also highly versatile and value for money.
Barrel Home Saunas
Saunas have gained massive popularity in the last few decades. It is known to be rejuvenating and healthy, and is now widely adopted by people throughout the world. Despite the gamut of benefits that a sauna offers, the main challenge is to build a dedicated room for sauna entirely.
However, this can be overcome by incorporating portable home saunas- a modern alternative to traditional saunas- which helps you sweat more, and reap the amazing health benefits of sauna anywhere you want.
Regular use of barrel saunas and spas might help you flush out toxins from your body and improve your overall health. It also helps in relieving stress, reducing aches and pains, improving metabolism, speeding up recovery after injury or accidents, ease soreness, muscle spasms, joint stiffness, and support immunity system.
Moreover, portable saunas provide great flexibility- you can use it in your home anywhere you’d like, it is easy to dismantle and store and it is relatively much more cost-effective as compared to dedicated sauna rooms.
Smart Doorbell
Gone are the days when you used to panic about your kids getting home from school on time, or wondering if your new house is located in a safe neighbourhood. With the technology advancing at a rapid pace, we can now invest in a smart doorbell which will let you see all the activities outside your home through a Wi-Fi connection.
The Ring Wi-Fi enabled video doorbell allows you to see and talk to your visitors whether you’re in your home-office upstairs or out for grocery shopping across the town. The device starts at under $200 and is quite easy to use and install on your own. However, there were some glitches reported about its motion detector that it captured people who were simply walking by instead of as they approach the house.
Carbon Monoxide Detector
While many of us tend to overlook the safety aspects when buying a new house, it is crucial that we invest in safety devices such as fire extinguishers, power outage supplies and carbon monoxide detectors to ensure our family’s health and safety.
Carbon monoxide is known as the invisible killer because it is a highly toxic gas that humans can’t see or smell. A detector can alert you about the presence of the deadly gas in your house and help you get to safety instantly. Ideally, you should install 1-2 detectors on each level of your house to make sure it quickly identifies a gas leak.
Stocked Bar
It’s always nice to have a stocked bar with age old rums and whiskey while your colleagues come over for dinner or as you celebrate your anniversary with your loved one. It’s not necessary to have a full-fledged wooden bar, instead you can opt for a beautiful golden food trolley with an elegant ice box and a few glasses with a bunch of your favourite bottles, all ready to be opened and served.
A basic list of drinks for your home bar consists of - gin, vodka, scotch, rum, tequila, sweet and dry vermouth, cognac, campari, white wine, red wine, champagne and triple sec. You can add more variety according to your taste and liking.
Zen Corner
Amidst all the chaos and hustle of life, we often forget to take a break and just rest for a while. When you remodel your house or buy a new one, make sure you build a little Zen corner where you can just sit calmly, relax, have a sip of your tea or morning coffee or even meditate for a while.
If you can have this space next to your bedroom, with a window that looks towards East direction, it’d make the perfect Zen corner in your new house.
