I am all about finding places to splurge and save in a home. What is luxury to one person may not be to another, so real luxury is more about designing a home with individual preferences. In that way, high end luxury, where it counts for you, can be more attainable.

Splurge on the products that are really important to you and save on others.

I was recently at Westedge Design Fair and Art Expo in Dallas checking out all the curated luxury products and art.

When I say this show was curated, I mean it. It was a small event, set up in one building. It was so easy to get a real look at some of the top luxury products available out there all in one place.

Sure, I love going to big markets and trade fairs, but it is a lot like shopping on Amazon, Wayfair and Etsy. You’ve got to filter out all the cheaper, lower end products that are value engineered to sell in quantity to get to the good stuff.

Well, at this show, it is all about the good stuff.

Spectacular Splurges to create Luxury in Your Home

Outdoor living has become so popular, especially in the last few years. These grilling tables from Social Grilling, help you to entertain with everyone getting involved. These tables can be installed more permanently with gas lines or used with portable tanks. One even comes with the tank hidden below.

Grill tables from Social Grilling for Korean bbq style cooking as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaston.com

Kalamazoo Gourmet makes a tabletop outdoor pizza oven, made in America.

Deluxe outdoor tabletop pizza oven from Kalamazoo Gourmet as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

How about a beautiful, artistic outdoor heater for your patio? This architect turned artist, Studio Vlock, makes these for luxurious residences, boutique hotels and resorts. They can be customized too for a signature style.

Outdoor heaters designed and customized for your luxury residence, resort or boutique hotel from Studio Vlock, as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Make it easy to move inside and out at your back patio with these easy to operate steel glass doors in this unique bi-fold from Riviera Bronze.

What makes this so special is that it can all lock into place easily and one section can be used as the operable door.

(See the video link at the end of the post for the demonstration on how this works.)

Riviera Bronze steel and glass bi-folding doors as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

SKS appliances can handle all the cooking in your luxury kitchen, including the sous vide, which they have built in to some of their gorgeous ranges. Their wine refrigeration is truly top notch as well.

SKS Appliances gourmet appliances, range with built-in sous vide as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Top notch wine refrigeration for the collector from Westedge Design Fair as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Gorgeous wood floors with extra wide planks with European and American white oak was showing at the fair from Northern Wide Plank.

They were in process of opening up a new showroom in Dallas so Texans can see samples in person anytime.

These planks on the right are 17” wide. Northern Wide Plank | carlaaston.com

Look at how thick that wear layer is in this engineered wide plank flooring material from Northern Wide Plank. | carlaaston.com

I’m holding on to full service design work in my business until I can use these next two products in a project somewhere.

Concrete Collaborative makes the best looking terrazzo tile out there. Lots of cool size variation and color combinations here.

Terrazzo tiles from Concrete Collaborative’s vast colors and styles as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Strike fireplace mantles are so clean lined and unique. I love their simple but impactful and shapely style.

Gorgeous fireplaces from STRIKE, as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Rugs from Marc Phillips Rugs were sumptuous and thick. The epitome of luxurious style.

Plush, luxurious handmade wool rugs from Marc Phillips Rugs. This design by Jamie Bush. carlaaston.com

Hyland Glass is an art glass studio making incredible lighting and other glass products. We chatted about one of my favorite shows, Blown Away on Netflix, as they know some of the artists that have been on the show.

Hyland Glass art glass lighting as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

This was actual pink glass mirror with an incredible organic form from Hyland Glass and art glass studio. carlaaston.com

More incredible lighting from a New Orleans gallery, Swadoh, that imports these from artists in France. You can see more of the lighting from this booth in the short video I link to at the bottom of this post.

Lighting design from French artists from Swadoh gallery, as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Hand made wood furniture is truly an art form for Earl Nesbitt.

A live edge table made from a giant mulberry tree slab by Earl Nesbitt, as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

I love to see nature and texture in a home and this beautiful limestone from Wyoming with fossils, Green River Stone, is perfect for that.

It can be used as table tops, backsplashes, fireplace surrounds, all kinds of surfaces.

Green River Stone slabs make gorgeous table tops, wall art and surfacing material. Seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

A 24K gold finish on this apron sink below and then a platinum finish on the bathroom sink are new metal finishes for Native Trails. Luxury in the kitchen and bath, for sure.

Native Trails’ new metallic gold finish as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Native Trails’ new platinum finish as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

New wallpaper companies and patterns are coming up every day and this one, Ever Atelier, has some beautiful products. These lovely and delightful entrepreneurs are based in Dallas.

That is one thing I loved about this show, many of the vendors were local to Texas or weren’t too far flung.

Wallpaper from Ever Atelier as seen at Westedge Design Fair. carlaaston.com

Artist’s work to splurge on

The artists were there adding so much life and expression to this curated fair.

Stephen Roebeck photographs nature for amazing abstract art. The tree bark look images below are an actual circumference of a large tree trunk.

Stephen Roebeck as seen as Art Expo, Dallas | carlaaston.com

Loved this art from Jennifer Monet Cowley, through the Daisha Gallery. Her inspiration comes from quilts and the messages and stories that were often hidden in them.