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30 Things That Make Your Home Look Expensive Without Renovating ✨
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items You don't need a renovation budget to make your home look expensive. 👀✨ These are my favourite easy upgrades for making a space feel warmer, more intentional and WAY more luxurious — from lighting and bedding to storage, decor and renter-friendly fi...
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✨ Lighting That Instantly Makes a Room Look Expensive
🛏️ Make Your Bedroom Look Like a Cozy Hotel 🏨
🪟 The “Why Does This Suddenly Look Designer?” Tricks
Cozy Expensive Looking Living Room 🛋️
Hide the ugly shizz 🙌🏼
🚿 $30 Bathroom → ✨HOTEL SPA✨
✨ Lighting That Instantly Makes a Room Look Expensive
If you’re like me, seeing tiny lamps on tables just makes a room look unfinished…we can solve that issue with a big table lamp!! Makes any table look intentionally set and expensive looking 👀
Table Lamps
Literally the cheapest way to make your house not only look but also feel warmer! I recently put some of these in my house and instant game changer!
Warm LED Lights
Plop one of these atop any of your wall art pieces and it’ll be giving art gallery luxury🤗🤗
Picture Lights | Art & Display Lighting Fixtures
Perfect for filling an awkward empty corner while adding another layer of lighting. Look for interesting shapes, linen shades or brass-style finishes! 💕
Floor Lamps + Standing Lamps
I swear these are the best thing to add a beautiful built in light moment without having to hire an electrician! These would look perfect in a little reading nook or even on either side of your bed 😮💨
Wall Sconces | Sconce Light & Wall Sconces For Living Room
🛏️ Make Your Bedroom Look Like a Cozy Hotel 🏨
THE FLUFF. One of my favourite tricks is using an extra-fluffy duvet so the bed looks ridiculously inviting instead of flat and sad.
Big Duvet™ Insert | Oversized Cooling Duvet Comforter - Big Blanket Co
Doesn’t even need to be real linen, because honestly these are giving hotel vibes and I’m here for it! Plus cute patterns? Sign me up!
Linen Blend Duvet Covers | Cotton & Linen Sets | Piglet in Bed US
A generously layered bed immediately looks more luxurious. Functional pillows in the back + sleeping pillows + one or two decorative pillows = DONE.
Oversized Pillows
A headboard makes even basic bedding look intentional. Upholstered styles especially give you that soft boutique-hotel look without changing anything structural which is amazing!
Upholstered Headboards: Elevated Bedroom Furniture
Recently got myself matching night stands for our master bedrooms and such a game changer! Makes it look luxurious and symmetrical!
Nightstands & Bedside Tables
🪟 The “Why Does This Suddenly Look Designer?” Tricks
Hang your curtain rod HIGHER than the actual window and let the curtains reach the floor. It makes the ceilings look taller and the windows look larger. Absolute sorcery.
Custom Extra Long Curtains And Extra Wide Drapes
Double curtain rods are the secret to that layered, expensive-looking window treatment. ✨ Pair sheer curtains underneath with heavier drapes on top for privacy, softness and major boutique-hotel vibes — no renovation required.👌🏼👌🏼
Double Curtain Rods | Shop Adjustable & Room Darkening ...
One of the biggest differences between a room that looks professionally decorated and one that doesn't: rug size. When possible, go BIG enough for your furniture to actually sit on it. I’ve done this recently and major game changer!
Extra Large Rugs | Oversized Area Rugs
Mirrors bounce light around and visually enlarge a room. A big leaning or arched mirror can basically become the artwork.
Oversized (60+ in.) - Wall Mirrors
One substantial piece often looks much more intentional than a bunch of tiny random things floating around the wall!
GIANT ART
Cozy Expensive Looking Living Room 🛋️
Toss one over the arm of your sofa or the end of a chair and suddenly the room looks styled instead of merely inhabited! I swear it looks so good!
Blankets & Throws
Instead of buying entire new pillows everytime you want a new look, take a page out of my book and just buy new pillow covers! Changes the vibes without breaking the bank ;)
Cushion Covers - Throw Pillow Covers
One or two gorgeous books instantly give a coffee table some height and personality. Bonus points when they're about something you actually care about.
Luxury Coffee Table Books
My favourite trick for turning “random crap sitting on the coffee table” into “intentional vignette.” Put your candle, remotes and little decor pieces on one tray.
Decorative Trays | Coffee Table Trays + Décor | AnthroHome
On a dining table, kitchen island or coffee table, a simple oversized bowl looks ridiculously good. Fill it with fruit, moss balls or absolutely nothing.
Decorative Bowls & Centerpieces
Hide the ugly shizz 🙌🏼
The secret isn't owning less stuff. It's putting the stuff in matching baskets so nobody can SEE THE CHAOS. 😂 Woven baskets add warmth while hiding toys, blankets and miscellaneous nonsense.
Storage Boxes & Organization Bins
Even better when you don't have to organize what's inside. Put the lid on. Your secret is safe with me.
Storage Solutions | Boxes Baskets Bins & Laundry | H&M US
You absolutely do not need to decant everything you own, but matching containers for the things you use constantly make open shelves and pantries look dramatically calmer.
Kitchen Storage - The Container Store
The ultimate hide-the-chaos furniture piece. 😂 A beautiful upholstered ottoman or bench gives you extra seating, adds texture to the room AND secretly stores blankets, toys and everyday clutter. As a mom this was a must for me!
Upholstered Ottomans | Storage Options, Velvet & Boucle Designs
If something has to permanently live in your bedroom/bathroom, it might as well look like decor.
Bamboo Laundry Hamper - Costco Wholesale
🚿 $30 Bathroom → ✨HOTEL SPA✨
One statement mirror can completely change a basic bathroom without touching the tile or vanity. An oversized arched, rounded or beautifully framed mirror instantly makes the space feel more custom and expensive — especially paired with warm lighting...
Vanity Mirrors - Bathroom Mirrors
There's a reason hotels do it. Fluffy white towels instantly make a bathroom feel cleaner and more luxurious.
Super-Plush Turkish Cotton Bath Towels Set of 2
Adding natural wood tones to a basic bathroom warms everything up and gives major spa energy.
Teak Shower Benches, Stools & Waterproof Seats
The finishing touch. Real eucalyptus where practical or a convincing faux stem adds colour and gives the bathroom that “I definitely have my life together” energy. 😂
11 Plants for Bathroom With No Windows or Low Light
Never underestimate what a good shower curtain can do for a bathroom. A textured, waffle-weave or linen-look curtain instantly makes the space feel softer, cleaner and way more expensive. Hang it higher than you think you need to for that dramatic ho...
Shower Curtains & Accessories