Lux Living: High End Home Products

June 2023—You’re at a good place in life. You’ve earned the right to own some of the best luxury home products, and we’ve got some great local stores where you can find the latest and greatest!

Serene Luxury

There is nothing better than a luxurious bath experience to start your day off right and end your day in serenity. It helps set your mood, and its calming and relaxing effect just may improve your health and wellbeing. 

We wanted to know what was new and exciting in the bath product world and there is no better person to tell you all about it than John Smithman, or better place in town to see the latest offerings than Smithman’s 6,000 sq. ft. showroom called The Plumbing Place on Fruitville Road. He is the man.

The Plumbing Place carries an array of bath and kitchen products as well as premium hardware for doors and cabinets. One of the most luxurious is BainUltra’s latest bath collection. More than 70% of all the bathtubs are crafted by hand. Their designs are true works of art and are made with optimal ergonomics.

Featured here is the Opus bathtub made with Finestone®, a solid surface material that is a premium blend of minerals and pure liquid acrylic that is non-porous and hygienic. And what a fitting name! An opus is (according to the company website) “an artistic work, a composition born of inspiration, deep reflection, and the desire to see the artist’s inventive genius rise.”  There is no doubt this bathtub can be the artistic centerpiece of any luxury bathroom.

In addition to making tubs that are works of art, the acrylic used by BainUltra makes it easy to add built-in therapies. These enhancements are what BainUltra calls a new “Art of Living” focused on relaxation, health, and wellbeing. These therapies include hydro-thermal massage, aromatherapy, chromotherapy, thermotherapy, light therapy, and sound therapy. 

If you want to reinvent your bath experience, we suggest you visit The Plumbing Place showroom on Fruitville Road to see many luxury brands of bath products that will make you feel quite serene!

Exclusive Designs

With more than 150 luxury brands including their own proprietary line of high-end, American-made furniture, the father son duo of Clive and Daniel Lubner showcase many exclusive and unique lux furnishings in their 65,000 sq. ft. Sarasota showroom—Clive Daniel Home—their third Florida location. (The other two are in Naples and Boca Raton and another coming soon to Fort Myers.)

With many different designer galleries in-store, one of their newest Sarasota showroom galleries features furnishings by Adriana Hoyos—an iconic global brand known for its glamorous and inspired designs. 

With manufacturing facilities throughout Latin America, this design house combines the work of highly skilled artisans with high-technology to craft a product portfolio that includes made-to-last case goods and the finest detailed upholstery. The pieces are contemporary in style, yet they fit beautifully into any existing design aesthetic due to their timeless appeal.

At Clive Daniel Home, you will be enveloped in many of the most beautiful furniture designs anywhere in a variety of styles. Need help? Clive Daniel Home has a heavily awarded team of in-house designers who can turn your home into something quite special. Utilizing the most advanced design technology to visualize your home in advance, you get to imagine it all before you purchase. 

Whether your taste is contemporary, traditional, transitional, or casual, Clive Daniel Home will bring the “good life” to the spaces you love.

American Exceptionalism

This 4th of July is a great time to take pride in American-made! If you want kitchen appliances that have a great reputation for efficiency, reliability, and effectiveness that are made in the good old USA, then look no further than the trio of a Sub-Zero refrigerator, Wolf cooktop or oven, and a Cove dishwasher for an exceptional kitchen.

These three top-line appliance brands are all part of Sub-Zero Group, Inc., a Wisconsin-based company founded in 1945 with production plants in Wisconsin and Arizona. Want to see what makes them so special? Then be sure to stop in and see Scott Mullet at Mullet’s Appliances, a local family-owned appliance store founded in 1974. Mullet’s carries an array of product brands including these three brands, so you can experience the features of each product and how they work and fit your needs.

The Sub-Zero refrigerator is built to last and is known for how well it preserves food, its cleaner air from an air purification system, and how it seals in the cold. The Wolf cooktop and oven bring professional temperature controls and is like having a commercial appliance at home. The culmination of decades of research, testing and technology, the Cove dishwasher is not only super quiet, but it also gives you sparkling clean dishes from an array of jets. Be sure to stop by Mullet’s and test these American-made beauties!

Lux Craftsmanship

When it comes to using rugs as an art centerpiece to anchor a room, we are fortunate indeed to have an amazing rug superstore in our town where you can find “the one.” Its Rugs as Art on South Tamiami Trail. The Murse Family has created one of the nation’s most prestigious and award-winning rug superstores and we get to reap the benefits. 

Ever try to purchase an area rug online? The colors are never what you expect, and the quality is a surprise when it arrives. Worse yet. Ever try to send one back? You must re-pack it and spend the money to ship it.

At Rugs as Art, you get to touch, feel, and imagine the carpet in your room. No surprises. They make it so easy. It is undoubtedly a fabulous luxury shopping experience with rugs of all types and price points.

One of the store’s lux rug lines is by Stark Studio Rugs. The colors and patterns are gorgeous and museum worthy. Most Stark Studio rugs are hand woven and made with the Tibetan technique in which the yarn is knotted around the vertical warp threads and a metal rod. The higher the knot count, the finer the rug. There are few items you can purchase for your home which are created with more care and handwork. There is no better way of making a rug. Check out this lux line of rugs and make a true statement in your home!