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The Future Is Here: M Showcase Home Rewrites the Rules on Indoor-Outdoor Living

Here’s a design riddle for you: What’s outside but still inside?

Answer: The latest and coolest-ever New American Home, the annual showplace unveiled each year to coincide with the International Builders Show in Orlando, FL.

Created each year by a select design team, the home is intended to celebrate and showcase all things new, exciting, and downright extravagant in home design, building materials, and techniques. It incorporates many of the hottest residential appliances and fixtures. And this year’s version—the 34th—merges indoor and outdoor living in stunning, even startling new ways.

So yeah, it’s a bit of a fantasy. But in the real world it can be yours for just $6 million!

The 8,245-square-foot luxury home in Lake Nona, FL, was built to evoke the classic single-story Mid-Century Modern designs of Palm Springs in its Rat Pack heyday—but with plenty of modern-day embellishments. Designed by Phil Kean Design Group, this open-plan home takes the indoor/outdoor integration-with-nature ideas of such masters as Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright and gives them a whimsical spin. There’s a palm tree–adorned, five-hole putting green in the center of the home, a fire pit and grill on the roof, and an infinity-edge pool that starts where the indoor space ends, making the space feel like it somehow melts into the night sky.

The five-bedroom, 7.5-bathroom house also features plenty of the latest and greatest home products, including translucent garage doors by Clopay that allow the daylight to shine in, top-end Kohler shower heads that offer four spray options, and a Garaventa Lift  Elvoron elevator to bring visitors up to the 2,000-square-foot rooftop terrace.

And the home is designed with a variety of sliding doors allowing residents to easily customize and change the interior space as they see fit.

The net effect? Guests feel as if they’re walking into a sprawling, private resort rather than a luxury residence. In a good way.

“We took a cue from our international clients who take extended holidays,” says Phil Kean, who oversaw the design. “This house could easily entertain guests for six weeks,There’s a private side and a public side—and lots of glass indoors and out.”

Of course, a sprawling single-story house like this isn’t typical, and it’s not meant to be. It’s meant to show off cutting-edge design concepts and products. Indeed, makers fight to get their gear installed in the house, at donated costs.

“No matter what kind of a builder you are, there are takeaways you can use back home,” says Tony Mancini, group director of Professional Builder magazine, a New American Home co-sponsor.

But beyond all the luxury, the home is also designed to be something else: an energy miser. How does $250 in estimated energy costs a year grab you?

A big part of the savings comes from an array of 60 solar panels; a pair of Tesla batteries store the collected power until the house calls for it. A Kohler generator supplies backup power when necessary.

Dying to live there yet? We certainly are. Sure, the price tag might deter a few folks.

But, then again, it does come fully furnished.

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