Choosing a holiday home is an exciting process, often with options to explore – ways in which you can personalise your leisure home. One of the companies which offers a range of options is Prestige Homeseeker, in Northamptonshire.
This company has a showground – up to 10 homes are on display. And there’s more: an entire Design Studio packed with lighting, fabrics, flooring, tiling and more.
Imagine a choice of 30 different styles of tiles, between 20 and 30 dining furniture options, 40 books of curtain fabrics to browse – and each book contains 50 fabrics….
Samantha Whitehead, one of a team of six sales co-ordinators who guide visitors through the decision-making process, explains: “People often want to put their own stamp on their holiday home. They can come here for a whole day if they wish, and choose their home and the fine details of its appearance in a relaxed and informal way.
It’s fantastic to be able to personalise your holiday home – but it’s worth knowing that the appearance of every holiday home has been created by an interior design expert. The four homes I review here, on display at the showground, exemplify the results of that expertise. All four blend colours and styles in a stunning manner. Little wonder, then, that, even though so many options are available, many buyers go for the exact holiday home they see at the showground.

Burleigh

Elegance and tradition in a holiday home. This is luxury leisure living!
We find our way along the raised decking walkways surrounded by sand-shade gravel of the showground, from the Casa di Lusso, to the Burleigh.
If you’re after a lodge with large bedrooms, this is one to consider. Like the Casa di Lusso, the styling has traditional elegance touches – this time in the form of a fireplace, and two sumptuous armchairs along with a huge sofa.
The Burleigh’s dining furniture seats four. Two breakfast bar chairs are positioned by the breakfast bar that’s integrated with the hob island unit with extractor fan from which four bright spotlights focus down on the four burners.

Like the Casa di Lusso, a hallway cupboard houses a washing machine and gives plenty of space for coats and shoes.
The colour palette is fawn and cream – very appealing but, if your taste takes you in the direction of more adventurous colours, the Design Studio is there to provide.
The Burleigh’s second bedroom has twin beds. The main bedroom and its shower en suite span the whole width of the lodge. Shaker style is the furniture theme, for a desk-style dressing table, freestanding wardrobe and bedside cabinets.
The bed has a suede-effect fitted cover, a throw and six cushions – so luxurious and inviting! V-groove panelling is a décor theme, in the main bedroom the bedhead wall is clad in horizontally aligned panelling, finished in matt fawn. Superb!

Hampton

Bedrooms at each end and the living area in the centre; the Hampton’s layout is unusual – and stunning.
If you imagine that luxury holiday lodges broadly conform to an open-plan layout pattern, this is one to change your mind.
Whereas most lodges have the living area at the front, this one doesn’t. There are bedroom at each end, a cosy lounge with a fireplace focal point, and a wall of windows running along the central lounge dining area.
A breakfast bar stretches towards the kitchen from the entrance corridor. Three enormous glass dome lamps hang on chrome chains above it – that’s one of the stunning features of the Hampton.

Bright spotlights are set into the bases of the kitchen units. Granite work surfaces, a white tile cooker splash-back and white V-groove panelling walls are delightful.
The V-groove panelling extends into the dining and lounge areas. The ‘log-burner’ fire, set into a black marble-effect hearth is sending out warmed air as I make myself at home on the L-shaped settee. White and deep blues are mixed with fawns for the cushions – so on-trend.
A chrome chandelier hangs over the country-style dining table with wicker-inspired chairs. Style elements meld country with super-modern and they blend perfectly.
More floor-to-ceiling windows are in the main bedroom. The laminate wall theme is here, too; this time in pale, distressed-look wood. An archway-shaped mirror framed in white, again in distressed-look style, seems to encapsulate the Hampton’s elegance mixed with country style. We love it.

Casa di Lusso

A family holiday home with bold style statements that mix country classics with chic modernity.

Casa di Lusso translates as ‘House of Luxury’ – and it’s well named. A fireplace sits in a corner of the enormous lounge-dining-kitchen area. An island kitchen unit housing the sink, cabinets, a wine cooler and dishwasher forms a natural divide. A breakfast bar, lower than this unit’s surface, stretches along the lounge side.
The Casa di Lusso is a super family lodge, with a fabulous bunk bedroom. Two cabin beds and a single bed are here – each of the bunk pods has a porthole window – stunning!

Navigator

An ultra-moder  lodge with nautical style elements.
The Navigator has an awesome front design, with eight windows, two of which are angled, at the corners, creating a conservatory look.

The lounge, dining and kitchen elements of the open-plan living area are integrated, yet feel quite separate. The L-shaped kitchen surface is enormous.
Two high stools sit to the lounge side of this vast surface. We can see this being a very practical kitchen.
This is very much a family lodge, with double beds and twin beds.

Contact

Prestige Homeseeker Park & Leisure Homes
01933 354000
Prestigehomeseeker.com