9 Items that Add Luxury to Your Home

If you want to add in a touch of luxury to your home, there are several ways of making it happen, and even that on a budget. Items that add luxury to your home need not be expensive. Oftentimes, they are more aesthetic with smaller details. Here are a few tips & tricks for playing around with regular items and giving them the look and feel of sophistication that scream luxury!

1. Play around with your lighting

One of the best ways to show off the luxury look of your home is to play around with natural light as well as to fix proper bright light sources in every room! 

Be sure to invest in good white as well as subtle yellow lights for your room as nothing screams luxurious more than lighting. One sure shot way is to hide the lights. Replace the tube lights, lamps, and shades with built-in ceiling lights. This would also work in making sure your home looks bigger as it takes up less space.

2. Fixtures are the items that add luxury to your home

Invest a little in doorknobs, handles, and light switches. Think up a theme and stick to it throughout the house. Embrace minimalism while doing so. Imagine all your light fixtures in your home are of matte black color while the walls are off-white ones. Would look amazing and elegant.

3. Mirrors!

4. Play with colors

Colors are an important part of human life. It is very important to choose the right colors for your house as that is where you spend the majority of your time, now more so than before. It has the power to impact your mood. 

If you want to paint your walls a neutral shade, you can add colors by the way of hanging art pieces, incorporating house plants, or even throwing in some artificial flower arrangements. 

One sure shot item that adds luxury to your home is incorporating royal colors in your decors, such as royal blue, aquamarine green, or even bright yellow. You can also add a statement chair piece with velvet covers in bright colors to add a point of luxury to your home.

5. Rearrange and remove

One way of keeping the vibe of your home is to rearrange your furniture often. Maybe some of the cushions of your home have started getting dull, then you can change the cushions. 

Maybe it’s been years since you’ve changed your sofa, so you can replace your furniture set with a new one that goes along with the color theme of your home.

6. Flowers & House Plants

One way to bring elegance and luxury to your home is by the way of flowers and houseplants. They have the power to add to life in your home, bringing along the touch of luxury. 

The addition of both real, as well as fake houseplants, is a great way to uplift any house space. They make excellent statement pieces in your home. You can choose various textured pots to give the usual houseplant a touch of elegance.

7. Thrift

One of the items that add luxury to your home is the thrifted items. You can do some DIY and upgrade the seemingly simple items.

For example, if you find an old clay pot in a thrift store, you can bring it home and add a touch of elegance to it by spray painting it matte white, or black turning the pot into a statement piece. Or maybe you get an old wood shelf in a thrift store, you can varnish it, and voila, instant elegant side table ready!

8. Curtains

Incorporate floor-length curtains. Do it now! This is one sure-shot way of incorporating luxury in your home, with seemingly no effort. It gives the appearance of bigger homes and instantly adds that luxury factor to your home. 

Add sheer curtains so that the light coming in the house is softer and it brings warmth to the house which makes your home cozy and luxurious.

9. Art & Wallpapers

Incorporate huge art pieces on plain walls. This allows you to change the art pieces in your homes, seemingly changing the looks of your home continuously. 

If you’re feeling a little daring, go buy some canvas board and some paints, and create an abstract art piece by yourself. Your home would have the touch of luxury as well as you’ll be super proud when your guests inquire about the art piece. 

You can also change the look of a particular room by incorporating wallpapers in your home. Give a plain room, maybe your home office a makeover by incorporating an abstract art mural on one of the walls.

Asawari Bhatkar

I'm a journalism student with the graduation year of 2022. I have an interest in Painting, Writing & Research, Photography, and Videography!

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