Even if you do not have a professional interior designer helping you with your home design, you can make your home exude comfort, luxury, and elegance. Give your home a more polished and sophisticated look with a few easy tips and styling techniques.
Here are five ways on how to make your home look more expensive.
1) Illuminate Your Home
Using the right lighting can make your home look expensive. Above all else, natural lighting and source lighting contribute to a room’s overall look.
If you want to make your home look more luxurious, the trick is to add as many light sources as possible. Try to add unique looking lighting pieces that will take your lighting to the next level. You can place cozy floor lamps and modern bulbs that give a warm and muted light effect. Consider illumination in strategic areas in your home as well and not just in your living room to ensure that your entire home looks expensive.
Another great tip when using lighting is to invest in a statement light fixture that can be the focal point in your living room or dining room. A bold statement piece will add a touch of class and elevate your space.
2) Creative Accent Walls
Creative accent walls can dramatically transform any room by adding depth, texture, and color. Consider a bold wall painting that injects your personal style or mood into the space; think abstract designs or a vibrant color that contrasts with the other walls for a striking effect. Another option is cultured stone, which offers a rugged, natural beauty that adds an element of the outdoors inside. You can create a perfect focal point with the help of cultured stone selection in living rooms or dining areas. Wooden solutions, such as reclaimed wood panels or sleek wooden slats, introduce warmth and texture, ideal for a cozy bedroom or a modern office space. When incorporating accent walls, choose the right wall to accentuate, typically the first wall seen upon entering a room. Consider the room’s existing color scheme and decor to ensure cohesion. Use lighting to highlight the accent wall, drawing attention to its features, and experiment with textures and materials that complement the room’s overall aesthetic. Keeping the rest of the room’s design relatively simple allows the accent wall to truly stand out.
3) Add an Area Rug
An area rug can make your home look expensive no matter what kind of flooring you have. Whether you go with an oriental or a Persian style rug, your area rug will help make your space look cozier and more inviting. An area rug adds a finishing touch to a room and transforms it into a more elegant and expensive-looking space.
Here are some tips on how using area rugs for your home:
- Define a Space
Use area rugs to define areas such as the dining room or foyer. A good rule of thumb to follow is that all of your furniture should sit on the area rug. Or at least ensure that the feet of your furniture are touching a part of the area rug.
- Choose the Right Size
Make sure to choose the right rug size based on how big or small your space is. Remember that your area rug should complement your room. If you choose a rug that is too small, it can also make your entire room look smaller.
- Create Harmony
Your area rug should blend with the rest of your room’s decor. It can help anchor a room’s design elements to achieve a cohesive look. If your area rug has too many patterns, it can ruin the cohesive look that you want to achieve.
- Use it as a Wall Hanging
Want to try something new? There are beautiful rugs that can also look great as hanging wall art. Instead of spreading an area rug on the floor, hang it on your wall to create a focal point.
- Use Plain-Colored Rug
Use a plain-colored rug if your room has a patterned wallpaper or upholstery so that your eyes have something to rest on. If you have blank walls, try adding an area rug with a unique pattern or bold colors to add life to your room. Remember that having the right combination of design elements can help make your room decor more visually appealing.
4) Install a Video Wall
Installing a video wall is a great way to make your home look more modern and expensive.
A video wall is a multi-monitor setup that you can place in your entertainment room or your living room area. You can use it to have a high-class TV or movie viewing experience at home, or you use it as a design focal point when you host an evening party at your home. A video wall is a surefire way to impress anyone who enters your home.
When choosing digital screens for video wall hardware, you can either go with LCD or LED screens. Both are similar in many ways, so you will need to decide which will go better with your home and with your budget. Thanks to advancements in technology, video walls have become more affordable these days.
Here’s a tip when using a video wall as a design piece. If you are hosting a party, you can use your video wall as a blank canvas to display digital artwork.
5) Give your Home a Fresh Coat of Paint
A fresh coat of paint can make a home look more expensive. It makes your space look new and gives new life to your furniture as well. A good strategy is to choose colors that blend well with your existing furniture and appliances.
If you are in doubt, you should always go with neutral colors like beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray, or shades of white. They always look fresh and can be easily paired with other colors.
Remember that light colors can help make a room feel bigger and more luxurious. They can also reflect more light, which helps create a more open feeling in your space. You can mix in deeper shades to create accent walls and add depth to your room’s look.
If you want to add a pop of color, add accessories or design pieces that come in bold accent colors. The neutral colors of your room will highlight these statement pieces and take your room’s overall interior design to the next level.
6) Declutter
Clutter can ruin the luxurious aesthetic that you are going for if you want to make your home look more expensive. Try to lessen the number of furniture that you have to make your room feel more spacious and so that your visitors can see the finer design details of your home.
Another way to declutter is to pare down your accessories and edit down the little trinkets and design pieces that you might have all over your house. For example, if you want to make your bookshelf look chic, having too many things on it can make it look cheap and chaotic. Try to leave only a few favorite pieces to create a classic and elegant aesthetic.
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