The "smart house" — where everything from your multimedia and security systems to your heat and water can be controlled through your smartphone — is giving way to a new revolution in home technology: The health-centric home.
The Fiscal Times reports that residences that function as domestic clinics, wellness centers, and fitness facilities are The Next Big Thing for celebrities and the super-rich, aiming to stay young and healthy.
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are rumored to be building a $3 million at-home medical facility, with an X-ray machine and CT scanner, mainly to serve their daughter's medical needs.
Features in health-centric homes include vitamin C-infused showers, which remove the chlorine from the water and supposedly helps improve dry and itchy skin. Celebrities including Leonardo DiCaprio have one, and they are available through Amazon for less than $100.
In addition, the actor's new $10 million Greenwich Village apartment — developed by Delos, a firm focused on wellness real estate — has a circulated aromatherapy air supply and posture-supportive heat reflexology flooring.
According to the Los Angeles Times, a $65-million spec house in Los Angeles has been built with a Botox station and a dental chair. Architect Doug Burdge has designed homes in Malibu with wellness suites where hairdressers, fitness trainers, and masseuses can come to the home out of sight of paparazzi.
Gyms are also becoming ubiquitous in rich people's homes, with many including basketball courts, squash courts, bowling alleys, and golf simulators.
Designer Kenneth Bordewick has even created an intensive-care unit in one home so CEOs and other influential businessmen can be treated away from paparazzi, according to the Los Angeles Times article.