10 EASY WAYS TO MAKE YOUR HOME LOOK MORE EXPENSIVE

well hello welcome back to the house of Valentina I'm Valentina and today we are going to be talking about 10 ways in which you can very easily help your home to feel more expensive these are going to be super practical I have been changing things up in my house myself lately and I'm just like we didn't chat about this because there are just these little things that you can do that will make such a big impact in your home and I've been doing these things myself in my own house and I'm like this made a huge difference okay so you can create a more luxurious style in your home you don't need a million bucks to have a luxurious style it's just about a few styling hacks a lot of times and maybe switching some things out that can make a huge difference so I'm going to share with you the ones that I've been thinking about a lot lately the ones I've been doing in my own home or in my clients homes and I'm just seeing such an impact and it just makes me happy it just makes me so happy I just find myself just like I don't know like smiling in the house it's like yes oh this just feels so good why did I do this before why didn't I do this before that's what you're going to be asking yourself after this video so make sure you hit subscribe if you haven't already give the video a big thumbs up and let's jump in because let's be honest these are gonna be awesome and we don't want to waste any more time [Music] okay let's start with hang a mirror I know that that sounds so obvious but I don't know why we do this we get into this mode where we just we just don't do stuff right because our bodies I think naturally we're all so busy that a lot of times we just naturally go into like maintain mode and then one day you're like I'm gonna break out of this I'm gonna hang the mirror today and you put the mirror up and you're like why didn't I do that before it just looks so good I've been doing that about my bedroom I can't shut up about hanging the mirror in my bedroom actually two of them I put them over the nightstands and I cannot believe the difference that it made to put mirrors over the nightstands like all the light that's bouncing back in there the way it reflects back the rest of the room it just feels bigger brighter it feels more somehow cozy more sophisticated and it feels more expensive in there and this is such an easy fix I found my mirrors on Amazon okay they weren't super expensive you can find them at places like Ikea as well but I also did the same thing in the bathroom I literally just ordered it I can't even show you yet because I'm literally working on it right now I realized I switched out the lighting in the bathroom and I looked I was taking the pictures getting ready to put it on Instagram and I was like why didn't you change the mirror here as well and I'm like that's a good question why did I not do that too so sometimes you might have a mirror sometimes you may sometimes you may not have a mirror at all and you need to buy one add a mirror add light add all the sophistication all this great stuff but maybe sometimes you just need to switch out the mirror a lot of times we tend to buy mirrors they're just too small for a space if you've got a bathroom where the light is over the mirror that's what I did is that I've been taking out the overhead light and flanking the mirror instead putting up some sconces instead that way I can give myself a nice big mirror in its place and it is making such a difference I'm very excited I'm going to be doing that switching out the mirror again I just bought one off of Amazon I wish that Ikea was just a little bit closer to me because I'd go to Ikea and grab them there too but either way there's a lot of places you can also look at places like Target if you're wanting to save money right we're doing this for Less you can always invest more in any of these ideas but if you're trying to do them for Less these are the ways to do it one of the things that one of my favorite tips is to save money on other things so that you have more money to spend on your Decor that's the best way to create a lux for Less look you you don't only have to use the budget right that you like you've got a hundred dollars a month set aside I don't know what you have but let's just say 100 a month for Decor in your house well if you save money on food you'll have a little bit more you can Splash out on your Decor budget so that I don't know did you do you guys do budgets like that we've always done budget line items like that and one of the things I've always done is I've always tried to save on food so I will take the money from that food budget save it and then use the extra so I can invest a little bit more on home decor one of my favorite ways I've been doing that lately I used to be like the coupon queen and then yeah they came up with lots of rules that made it a little bit harder apparently everybody was becoming coupon queen so nowadays my favorite way to save money on food is actually to use hellofresh so hellofresh arrived at our house this week and my kids just love it so let's pop over to hellofresh in the kitchen for just a second I am so excited to take just a moment and give hellofresh a big shout out for being our video sponsor because my family loves Hello fresh nights it is just so convenient they literally send you everything that gets delivered right to your door everything comes in a package that is pre-portioned with the recipe card it is amazing I have to tell you guys I almost had a coronary when I realized how much we have been spending intake out and I always have Mom guilt because so much of that food that you get from takeout first of all it's expensive hello fresh is seriously at least 25 less than any takeout you're going to be able to order especially if it's fancy takeout yeah it adds up guys and that food tends to be really loaded with salt the ingredients aren't necessarily fresh and it's not always the best food I'm just being 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and makes it and that will prove that anyone these meals [Music] wow oh is this really vegan it is vegan oh my God and even more impressive than vegan is the fact that I made it did you really make this what did you get Haley down here to make this well she may have helped with a few things but I actually made this um yeah it's like really really good that's delicious delicious you made it so pretty well thank you very much there you go guys this is proof that anyone can make this food [Music] oh switch out the entry rug okay why do we do that why the doormat right A lot of times we think to switch out the doormat or maybe you need a new doormat too dingy doormats and kind of dingy grimy uh area rugs near your door you know a lot of times we think about the the big rooms we're like I gotta get a big rug for my bedroom I'm Gonna Get Nine by twelve it's gonna be expensive I just bought a very inexpensive little rug off of Amazon for my own door and I'm like oh that's really affordable why did I do that before I even bought one for the back door that I was like again why didn't I just switch this out uh I don't have one sitting over at this other door and I'm like again what is wrong with you woman why don't you do these things and I'm like because you just get into not seeing it mode you're just not seeing it uh you know we talked about that a couple weeks ago about how I hadn't seen the door handle I still had a brass one and so I've ordered new door handles and it's something that we're upgrading around the house right like you just stop seeing things you just don't see it and so I think that upgrading the doormat or the the rug that's inside your entry is a really easy upgrade and it you can really change things out pretty quickly and very inexpensively I mean it buying a really nice rug could be well under a hundred dollars this is not a big investment and it can really have an impact as you enter the home when you see something pretty the minute you walk in and if you're worried about getting stains on them them and you know getting them money or whatever that's what the Bizzle little that little green I can't remember is it green something green machine something like that I'll put the link for it I buy it off of Amazon mine's been amazing it takes out all the stains I've ever gotten into my white rugs so I feel like at this point I'm just gonna buy whatever rug I want and if it needs to be clean that's going to clean it up because Georgia Clay wine coffee it's taken every bit of those stains out so yeah go have fun buy yourself a new rug or doormat and maybe both it's going to make a huge difference and you're not going to have to spend a lot of money this is an easy way to have a Luxe for Less look in your home [Music] tackle one wall at a time you know as a designer of course I'm usually hired to do entire rooms and in my own home a lot of times I'm working on things little by little and the stylist in me likes to change things up quite a bit so whether whatever your reasons are I've got mine you've got yours maybe you have the just stop seeing it whatever the reason is a lot of times we get to where we've got a lot of the bigger pieces in a room we've saved up we put the soap and we put the coffee table in we put the the TV in and then there's like another wall that just like gets for rotten and that's been my office that that I have one wall where I just hadn't done it it's just hadn't done it I don't know why I just hadn't and we get into that mode and we think we've got to do the whole entire room when in fact we just need to take a little bite off of the decor and just do a wall just do one wall focus on that one piece and just nail that side and then the rest of it really will be a lot easier to kind of fall into place but a lot of times we just leave that one wall undone or we think that we have to do the entire room and I do say pretty often that you should think about the entire design but you don't when you're you're putting up art and it's over a dresser that's just been sitting there forlorn my youngest used to sing loli why am I so lonely you're so cute but yeah he used to sing that we didn't come and talk to him enough very extroverted child but you know we have spaces of our home that kind of look like that they just look kind of lonely and forgotten and we don't have to do an entire room we can just simply do that space so I highly recommend buying some nice big art maybe buying yourself a new lamp and just a couple accessories of a base a lamp maybe a bowl or some books and babang you suddenly have a whole new space and you're just like you suddenly have the motivation to keep going you want to do the rest of the house it just feels so good and you just get into the mode of doing it and it really can just kind of trigger you in the right way to get it done and to create that Luxe look for yourself [Music] hang art guys the easiest way to be able to create a looks for less look is to hang art I've been going around the house and changing up like art everywhere I've been actually just doubling it in all the areas I've been just going bigger with it and so whether you already have art in that spot or you just have a blank wall like we were talking about before I think going big with your art going with big prints going for larger art pieces will help give you a very Lux for Less look because you you can double those pieces right instead of having to buy one ginormous canvas you can buy two of something or four of something or six of something if you've got a really big wall and really give yourself the impact but either way art we I think we always talk about art because here I do this all the time and even I forget sometimes I'm like stop having the don't see it [Laughter] you gotta start seeing your your space and going back into it and saying is this the best art layout for this room I know I hung some art but maybe I need maybe I need to hang better art maybe I need to upsize this maybe I need to double a triple or a quadruple it maybe I need to go for something Bolder or more graphic to give me that wow factor that for me has been such a big transformation and I find myself doing that quite often in my own home and just always eyeing what I have and judging whether it needs to be switched out so you may need to have art in the first place you might have quite a few blank spaces or you might just be ready to switch it up and go bigger and Bolder go to places like Amazon I go there all the time you guys have heard me talk about decennio a lot they're another great poster company you can go to places like Ikea but I don't buy a lot of art from Ikea I've actually found that Target is actually a better Source a lot of times they'll have art that's framed and you can get a better bang for your buck with that you can also go to places like home goods with those really big canvases that's how I transformed my office it's how I transformed the kitchen lately going for those big Home Goods pieces that barely squeeze into the car but they do give you a luxury look for less and can give you such a big impact for very little money actually so yeah it's a good one try let me know if you've tried it let me know if you've tried this one because I think you'll love it [Music] foreign talk about one of the easiest things to do we forget so often that adding a little bit of green to a room can really transform how luxurious it feels you could go for one like back here where I've got the Fig Tree uh when the Fig Tree isn't there I miss it I miss it I feel like there's something that is just the room just doesn't have that wow factor and that Luxe expensive high-end look comes from all the pieces really being put into place so when you're missing that pop of green the room might just feel a little bit empty might feel a little bit sad like it's just missing that life that that punch of green that it just needs to just really take it over the edge so maybe you want to buy a fiddle fig you want to grab a fig if you live in a place where you can keep olive trees inside I envy you I have to do faux here in Atlanta it's the only way with all the climate changes and everything that we have to keep them alive but there's lots of different options you could go with a chef alera you could go with a weeping fig you could go with a ficus ficus has been back in a whole new way finding all new varieties that are really cool uh there's all like there's all kinds of different options if you want to go real or you want to go faux but I do think adding a tree to a room to maybe a corner that just looks a little bit empty or a room that just needs that something try a tree it may just be the easiest trick but it's one worth trying and I think it makes a big difference [Music] yeah rearrange the room I I think it's been a while since we've talked about this oh sometimes we forget that sometimes the arrangement of the room can be what is fighting against you the most if you have a if you have an arrangement that makes the space feel kind of closed in or it makes it feel a lot smaller I've rearranged our living room a lot of different ways and I finally landed on what I really like from my own personal style is going as big as possible on the rug and then pulling the pieces as far away as I can and really just utilizing every bit of the square footage in the space so really upsizing your rug and your dining room fill it out maybe you just need to rearrange it maybe you need to actually just put the leaf in the table right rearranging your room doesn't mean you have to go buy a bunch of new stuff it just means maybe you need to put the chairs in a different place in the living room maybe you need to move where the bed is located move it to a different wall maybe in the dining room the china cabinet that you have is too dominant and you can take the top off those a lot of times and put artwork up above them or you can take that piece out of the room use it in a bedroom instead and then steal a dresser out of a bedroom and flip-flop the pieces and give yourself a whole new look in the dining room you could also think about switching the furniture maybe you've got chairs that would be better suited in the breakfast room and you switch them out with the dining room chairs right there's a lot of different things you can do to rear range your stuff this week I put the table that I've had in my office for ages I put it in the bathroom I just rearranged I rearranged the setup of my office I was sent a desk full disclosure I guess supposedly then I would have needed to have purchased something right it can at times cost you money to rearrange your stuff because it makes you realize this new layout requires this new piece but if you're like me once I put this setup in my living room I haven't touched it in so long it's scary for me I just really love the layout I invested a little bit more into a console table for the area I have a full tour of this space available on the channel if you haven't seen that recently I'll leave a link for that but I started to invest more once I got the layout really the way that just was like oh yeah this just feels so good so occasionally yes you may need a new piece to go into that new Arrangement but a lot of times you don't a lot of times you've got stuff or you might just need a new piece of art like it might be minimal amount of things but rearranging the room is really going to give you high impact and will really create a more luxurious look in your space thank you I love to rearrange the coffee table that since I'm not rearranging this room quite so much instead I get my rearranging uh needs out on the coffee table so maybe this would be a really easy way to create a more luxurious look you might want to just clear everything off and just start over you might grab accessories from your bookshelves or from your bedroom and just rearrange the coffee table a few great accessories on the coffee table can make a very big impact maybe you want to have a big marble Bowl maybe a couple really large books you might want to rearrange which books are on the table that that can also give you a very luxurious look I think upsizing those accessories and having fewer of them on the coffee table does tend to give you a very luxurious look but you might already have these things in your house and that's the best part A lot of times I go into my clients homes they've got all kinds of cool stuff I can use and so I'll be able to take from what they have and then every now and then we just need to fast and some great coffee table items you go to rearrange the coffee table you look at these great pictures all the inspiration and you go I don't have anything like that in my house so I'm going to save up I'm going to spend a little bit more I'm going to get these items that will really give me the impact on my coffee table so I think you got to balance it out you got to figure out what your situation is but either way an easy fix is to rearrange the coffee table I want to rearrange the pillows on the sofa it's a really easy fix sometimes just switching the arrangement of them you don't even have to switch the pillows themselves of course you can like if you don't have really Luxe pillows you might want to think about you know these are inexpensive they got these from Pottery Barn I've got some from CB2 and then I've got some from Amazon back here that are really inexpensive super affordable just have that really Luxe feel but a lot of times I'll just rearrange them I'll just change how they're arranged on the sofa I will change which room they're in I'll move things around from one place to another and it'll just give you a refresh in that space and it also can be more luxurious I think minimizing the pillows gives a more Luxe feel a lot of times some people would say that actually adding a lot would get more luxurious because that it's plush and you can just kind of like fall down in it but for me I like a more modern Luxe feel so I tend to pair things back quite a bit but you can even arrange them one in front of the other you can arrange them where you have pillows of the same size but different colors you could have one larger pillow and then a lumbar pillow you've got a lot of different Arrangements that you can use and you might just already have the pillows yourself you might already have the pillows on hand if you're thinking about maybe that you when you go to look at your pillows and you're like pillows that I have really just don't get me there you might want to check out some some of the Amazon links I always again just leave everything linked Down Below in the show notes you might want to think about buying some velvet I love just makes everything feel luxurious literally feels and looks more luxurious it looks more expensive always go for the down inserts I always size up one size so that they're nice and full on the inside and they just feel nice and plump and you can really just kind of sit on them and live with them and I think that that that really does help everything to feel really really good it feels very Luxe and it also looks Luxe so easy fix just go through wake up your pillows give them a little fluff rearrange them and it's a very easy quick fix these are easy ways to be able to make your home look more expensive for less it's an easy way to just make it feel amazing it's a space that you want to live in gets you excited about being in it these are all easy ways to do it so I will leave the links for the items that I've shown you in the video down below the inspiration I show you guys links for those always in the show notes that way you can shop and get more inspiration that's what I love about this channel which is a whole bunch of design enthusiasts we just love it it's fun to talk about it's fun to dream about it's fun to change things and see that that watch that transformation I just love it I never Tire of it and you guys don't seem to either so I hope you hit subscribe give the video a big thumbs up let me know in the comments which one of these you're like why am I not doing this and let me know if there's an area of your home you're like that's an area I stop seeing enough to stop seeing area let me know if there's one of those in your home and thank you guys for hanging out with me having your coffee with me I love it cheers I'll see you in the next one bye-bye [Music]

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Length: 24min 56sec (1496 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 16 2023