The rise in remote working has led many people to reconfigure existing spaces, add extensions, or redecorate tired-looking rooms, and make them look more aesthetic and feel comfortable and luxurious. However, the aesthetic doesn’t have to come with an expensive price tag. With a few replacements and clever installations, you can make your home look and feel more luxurious.
Read on to learn 17 things that can make your home luxurious.
Remodel Bathroom
Bathrooms are the new fashion statements. People are having TVs on walls in their bathrooms. It is worth spending on marble flooring to custom counters with double vanity sinks and quality fittings. However, nothing screams luxury silently than a freestanding soaking tub or clawfoot tub. A bathtub evokes a sense of timeless luxury and comfort.
Consider Paneling
Wall paneling is not only a surprisingly cost-effective way to decorate, but it also significantly enhances the character and value of the space, giving it a sense of gravitas. And while you are at it, why not consider ceiling paneling? While wall paneling is the more traditional option, ceiling paneling emphasizes the height of the room, a sure-shot technique to make a home look more expensive.
Choose An Open Floor Plan
An open floor plan is a layout with seamlessly flowing spaces between living areas that enhances the sense of expansiveness. By knocking out walls, you can transform a room and make it feel larger, grander, airier, and luxurious.
Statement Furniture
You can make your home look and feel more luxurious with the addition of a few carefully curated pieces of furniture. Coffee tables, comfortable sofas, and chairs made with solid and quality materials, with plush cushions and soft faux-fur throws add to the overall charm and sophistication of the home.
Upgrade Kitchen
Nothing elevates the value of a house than a well-designed kitchen with quality fixtures and fittings and a practical working layout. If you can afford a new kitchen, then an open-plan design, a kitchen island, branded appliances alongwith marble kitchen worktops, wooden kitchen cupboards, and new sinks can drastically transform your home. However, if you want to go for an inexpensive update, changing the cabinet doors, door handles, and knobs or getting the old laminated worktops covered by solid stone or marble can give a luxurious high-end feel to your kitchen.
Install Skylight
Natural light makes a home look and feel luxurious. Installing skylights is an effective way to bring more natural light into your home. It also extends your view to the sky making the space look more spacious and brighter.
Wooden Flooring
Invest in wooden floorboards to make your home look more impressive. Timelessly beautiful wooden flooring sets the tone for any interior and, when done right, makes all details fall into place. While a reclaimed wood floor lends character and warmth to a room, a lighter board brings freshness and brightness.
Install Home Bar
While a well-styled rolling bar cart is functional, a home bar with marble surfaces, polished wooden cabinets with glass doors to display glassware, a wine fridge, and an impressive collection of spirits can add an atmosphere of quiet sophistication.
Renovate Staircase
Revamping a worn staircase can elevate your home’s interior. Updating the balustrades or applying a fresh coat of paint or varnish on them, installing a new stylish stair runner, and putting attractive paintings on the walls along the staircase can turn your staircase into an eye-catching statement piece.
Add Fireplace
Adding a fireplace can lend an old-world charm to a home. It offers a cozy ambiance and aesthetic appeal, not to mention a timeless elegance.
Splurge On The Curtains
Many expensive homes have high ceilings that make the space look more airy and brighter. Try hanging your curtains and hardware high and close to the ceiling. This will give the appearance of a higher ceiling and loftier space. Keep your drapery light, gauzy, and semi-sheer in good quality material that brings in soft light and fills the room with warmth making it look effortlessly expensive.
Invest In Good Lights
Good lighting is essential and can make a huge difference to the look and mood of a home. Replace old light fixtures throughout the home and invest in ceiling and wall lights, standout personalized lamps, and reading lights to give your home the right ambiance and make it feel cozy and luxurious.
Throw In Unique Rugs
Vintage or uniquely designed statement-making rugs made of thick felt can make a home look and feel more luxurious. Not only do they bring all the elements in the room together, but they also add much-needed warmth, texture, and color. The larger the rug, the more luxurious it looks.
Opt For Neutral Shades
One of the simplest and most cost-effective ways to make your home look luxurious is to use a neutral color palette for both paint and furniture. Subdued tones give the illusion of larger spaces.
Look For Classy Upholstery
With the right upholstery, you can give your furniture an ultra-luxe look. Think of plush fabrics like silk, velvet, and cashmere for upholstering chairs, cushions, and pillow covers.
Curate Fine Artwork And Sculpture
Decorating your bare walls and other spaces in the home with fine art or sculptures can add character and depth to the environment, making it more engaging and unique.
Take Care Of Finishing High-End Touches
Small finishing touches of high-end materials are a great way to make your home look expensive. Think door handles, vintage books, drawer pulls, decorative window treatments, sink faucets, light switches, and sockets. Most people try to skimp on switches and sockets, but elegance is in these small details. Create a harmonious look by ensuring that all visible hardware from the door handles to the pulls on drawers and cupboards are in the same material and finish as your switches.