Spanish Hills mansion wins Custom Home of the Year

An unfinished Spanish Hills mansion with European influences and valued astatine $18 cardinal is Las Vegas’ Custom Home of the Year.

In the Silver Nugget Awards handed retired by the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association, the mansion besides won successful the class Design &Architecture. For implicit sum of the Silver Nugget Awards, look for the peculiar conception Nov. 7.

The astir completed two-story home, a task of Growth Holdings, (which does concern arsenic Growth Luxury Homes) has a gathering envelope of 18,763 quadrate feet, including abstraction for a 10-car garage, a covered patio and extortion deck. There’s 12,455 quadrate feet of livable abstraction that consists of 5 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms connected the 1-acre estate. It is expected to beryllium completed aboriginal adjacent year.

“When it’s done, it’s going to beryllium 1 of the astir awesome houses successful Vegas,” said Steve Escalante, vice president of concern improvement for Growth Holdings.

“Growth Luxury Homes (GLH) has a civilization of reasoning beyond, and utilizing our projects arsenic a level to make thing bonzer for our clients.”

The Spanish Hills mansion goes by the sanction “The Flying Sunset” and volition beryllium utilized arsenic a exemplary adjacent though it’s purchased, Escalante added.

The proprietor is an planetary concern enforcement who is “well-travelled and who has seen the champion of the champion astir the satellite and wanted to acquisition the champion successful the spot helium calls home,” Escalante said. “The Flying Sunset is thing abbreviated of a location that, similar it’s innovative owner, volition propulsion the envelope successful design, worldly and besides technology.”

Escalante said this imaginativeness came astir with GLH’s plan and architecture squad featuring immoderate of the world’s astir talented designers from France, Spain, the Middle East and the U.S. That planetary collaboration resulted successful a caller benignant coming to Las Vegas, helium said.

“The conception was to bring a antithetic benignant of indoor and outdoor surviving and a batch of planetary flair passim the property,” Escalante said. “We telephone the style, Eurolux. You person immoderate modern elements with world code and organics, and a small spot of traditional. There’s immoderate edginess. It covers a wide spectrum.”

It introduces a caller position connected however material, lighting and plan tin make spaces that “combine comfortableness with an planetary flare that feels similar you conscionable experienced the latest blistery couture manner driblet erstwhile you are successful it,” Escalante added.

This feels similar a location wherever you tin person an intimate setting, but you tin grow the location and unfastened it and (let it be) a spot wherever you tin entertain and person large functions. It gives you flexibility.”

The backyard volition person what’s called a “flying pool.” The location faces the sunset successful the west, and the excavation volition beryllium similar it’s flying disconnected a cliff, Escalante said.

“When you’re sitting there, it looks retired to infinity toward the Red Rock sunsets,” Escalante said. “The excavation volition person solid connected the sides on the mountainside, truthful arsenic you’re driving by the location connected the 215 Beltway, you’re going to spot h2o that looks similar it’s floating.

“It’s not lone bold, but thing that had not been done successful town.”

The backyard patio volition person a sunken lounge. There’s going to beryllium a plot beneath the excavation successful which it’s terraced down the hillside. There volition beryllium effect trees and different plants to springiness it a European feel, Escalante said.

“There volition beryllium a walkway that terraces down, similar successful Europe. And determination volition beryllium seating areas,” Escalante said. “With this flying excavation and greenery, it volition beryllium similar thing you person ne'er seen successful Las Vegas before.”

As for the home’s interior, Escalante said it’s the usage of abstraction and plan that’s seen successful world-class hotels. There volition beryllium a floating staircase and a 16-foot fireplace.

“It’s similar a floating fireplace,” Escalante said. “It’s massive. From the beforehand of the fireplace it’s going to person h2o that comes from the beforehand of the location to the backmost of the house. It gives an constituent of fire, water, world and upwind with the elements.”

The main level volition person a barroom and surviving country on with an office. That level besides volition person a theatre and crippled room, amusement lounge, kitchen, gym, household country and spa.

As for bedrooms, the precocious level volition person the maestro chamber and 3 impermanent rooms. One impermanent country volition beryllium downstairs.

“For the maestro bedroom, deliberation of the astir uber-luxury benignant of world-class resorts and everything you would expect successful 1 of those,” Escalante said. “It has a floating solid steam ablution with ample rainfall heads that comes down. It has floor-to-ceiling windows with a floating tub against it. The tub is acceptable connected what looks to beryllium an integrated stone mounting wherever you locomotion connected it. It’s precise impressive.”

The maestro chamber has a fireplace, bookshelf and tv acceptable up that resembles a seven-star resort, Escalante said. There’s a balcony that overlooks the Spring Mountains of Red Rock Canyon.

If you privation more, there’s adjacent 360-degree views connected the extortion deck.

“You’re going to spot Red Rock and person Strip views, too,” Escalante said. “There volition beryllium a barroom up determination with beauteous planters. It’s going to springiness you that planetary rooftop mounting wherever it’s open-air, wherever you tin person meal up determination oregon entertain your friends with a occurrence pit.”

The mansion uses stone, furniture, fixtures, lighting and cabinetry (that) comes from crossed the satellite and includes Portugal, Spain, Italy, Croatia and the Middle East.

“It’s a postulation of antithetic elements of the location being sourced astir the world,” Escalante said. “It’s going to person Armani plumbing fixtures. It’s the champion of the best.”

The mansion, which has 3 introduction gates, has a porte cochere. One gross takes you to the store and different takes you to the centrifugal court, Escalante said.

“When you travel into that, you consciousness similar you are driving into 1 of these large resorts,” Escalante said. “It volition person that feel.”

Escalante said it was an grant for the location to triumph the Silver Nugget Award and considered successful the aforesaid class arsenic different luxury homes that were considered.

“We consciousness precise blessed to beryllium considered on with immoderate of these exceptional builders successful town,” Escalante said. “I bash deliberation Las Vegas has immoderate of the champion plan and operation successful the country. We are pushing the envelope present successful Las Vegas, and it’s bully to situation ourselves to travel up with astonishing caller concepts and designs and to beryllium recognized for it is fantastic.”