7 Ways to Make Your Apartment Look More Luxurious

March 30, 2024, 11:08 am | Read time: 3 minutes

Furniture and decor can certainly strain your wallet. However, the belief that you must spend a lot to live in a home that looks high-end is a misconception. With the right tips, your home can look expensive without having to spend much money.

Not everyone has the budget to afford expensive designer furniture. Fortunately, not only costly furniture and rugs look luxurious. Nowadays, you can achieve a lot with a small budget in your own home. The following tips will help make your apartment look high-end.

1. Metallic Accents

Not everything that glitters is gold–but it can at least look like it. A few metallic accents can elevate the entire decor. Focus on accessories in copper or gold–they look particularly elegant. This look works well with picture frames, lamps, candle holders, drawer knobs, or even metallic table legs.

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2. Decorative Sculptures

The right accessories are key to making your apartment look more upscale. Decorative sculptures are particularly effective. The type of sculpture–abstract, animal, or organic–is secondary. What matters is giving the small artwork the space it deserves, whether on the sideboard, next to coffee table books, or on a shelf.

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3. Large Pendant Lights

Large pendant lights become a focal point in any room–and often appear luxurious as a result. Especially in rooms with high ceilings and large spaces, a big, expansive lamp is particularly impressive.

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4. Faux Marble

Marble looks high-end and elegant–but for this effect, it doesn’t have to be real stone, which is quite expensive. There are now many convincingly realistic imitations. For example, a small side table with a faux marble top, coasters, or decorative bowls. These accessories instantly make the apartment look more upscale.

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5. Large Mirrors

Mirrors not only visually enlarge a room–they also offer a luxurious ambiance. The bigger, the better is the motto here. Mirrors with ornate gold frames look particularly good, but mirrors with slim, minimalist frames are equally elegant. It’s important that they match the rest of the decor.

Dining room with large mirror — The large mirror is a highlight, as the rest of the decor is more subdued

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6. Decorative Pillows

Pillows are cozy–and decorative pillows are too, but they also make the apartment look tidier and therefore more upscale. Neatly arranged pillows on the bed or couch look elegant and luxurious.

Bedroom — The neatly lined-up pillows on the bed make the entire room look more elegant

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7. Less is More!

The most important point to make your apartment look more upscale: Don’t overdo it–less is more. It’s essential to ensure that rooms aren’t cluttered, with not too much decor or too many pieces of furniture. Of course, in a lived-in apartment, things and personal items that make the space feel like home will be around. In that case, having enough storage options to quickly tidy everything up will make the apartment look more upscale.

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