Latest home style: actual styling, in your own private beauty salon
Looking for a way to elevate your house — a cut above the rest, so to speak?
The in-home beauty salon may be your answer, according to the trend-spotters at the Wall Street Journal.
It's most popular as a high-end amenity, no doubt. Theresa Roemer's three-story, 3,000-square-foot half-a-million-dollar "she-cave" of a closet is perhaps the apogee of the genre. But it's theoretically within reach for anyone with a spare room. "I was shocked at how little it cost," one house flipper told the Journal: about $2,000. She installed a hair-washing sink, two pro-style salon chairs, plenty of mirrors and a chandelier for glamour.
She listed the house at $2.5 million in Braselton, Georgia. Her pink striped salon is pictured in our slideshow.
Other in-home salons are far pricier, of course. An Arkansas builder told the Journal that he designed one for a $7 million house that cost $30,000. It was 450 square feet and contained two $5,000 pedicure chairs, among other features.
Does a salon pay off in resale value for the homeowners? The jury's still out on that one. A home beauty salon is "hard as heck" to sell, said one Georgia real estate agent who's had several such listings, because the salon is "kind of a freaky thing."
On the other hand, a Florida agent who has a current listing with a beauty salon said it's "the room people come back to see again." She pointed out that anyone with the wherewithal to buy such a house (her listing is $17.9 million) already is accustomed to having massages and other services at home.
Click here or on a photo for a slideshow of high-end homes with their own private beauty salons:
