As luxury home sales are on the rise across the United States, the demand for luxury amenities - other than the already-included facilities - are going up too. Upscale home buyers now want state-of-the-art technology in their houses and are willing to spend an amount for the comforts.
Considering the rise in demand, Bloomberg took a look at the whims and fancies of some luxury-home owners, who made their dream, come true.
For instance, Jay Dweck - a former Goldman Sacchs and Morgan Stanley employee - constructed a violin-shaped pool, complete with led-lights for strings and hot tub for the chin rest. Dweck hopes to coordinate the underwater lights to music. He shelled out $4.8 million to renovate his residence.
"I always have visions and dreams of things you can do, and this is a realization of something," Dweck told the news agency. The idea is to improve quality of life using technology."
See the pool here.
But, if you thought a violin-shaped, high-tech pool was the ultimate luxury, Leonardo DiCaprio recently bought a home in New York City that has "vitamin-infused" showers.
The feature by Bloomberg notes that when people have the money, they don't mind spending it on "frivolous things."
While the extravagant features are reserved for the rich, even the middle-class population looks for some luxury features while home-hunting. According to a 2013 study by Trulia that attempted to map the trendiest amenities preferred by people while looking at a home - marble baths, roof decks and over-sized windows were the most popular amenities.
"Recently, there's been more of an emphasis overall on nature and natural materials. This trend in luxuries could be part of the same shift," said Jed Kolko, chief economist and head of analytics at Trulia, to The Wall Street Journal in an earlier interview.
But what really led to this massive shift of infusing world-class facilities at home? Travel apparently.
"People are traveling abroad and experiencing a lifestyle in resorts and then they bring that back into their everyday life. They want spas, hairdressing stations, indoor swimming pools, massage rooms," Joan Behnke, an interior designer told Forbes in a previous interview.
Shapiro & Sher Group explains that a desire for luxe lifestyle fuels demand for luxury homes.
"(Amenities) is what most people imagine when someone owns a luxury home, and they are not far from the truth. Products and service you cannot get anywhere else and memberships so exclusive they turn away many people. Why, that's the lifestyle everyone's aiming for. Of course, high quality and service are to be expected from these businesses."
