7 Easy Ways to Add a Touch of Luxury to Your Home
For most homeowners, you have a vision of where you want to take your house, and it probably isn’t there yet. Whether it’s time or budget, there is something in the way of getting your house to one of your dreams. We’ve compiled a list of easy ways you can upgrade the look and feel of your home with a Touch of Luxury.
Rain Shower Head
If you’ve ever been to a luxury hotel, chances are you’ve experienced what a rain shower head feels like. These overhead shower units flow water down over the top of your head, completely changing the feel of a shower.
Many people feel that having a rain shower unit makes their showering significantly more relaxing. And, you’ll immediately create a spa-like experience for your showering experience. Whether you or your guests (or both) will be utilizing it, everyone will feel treated after the experience.
Adding a rain unit to your home shower isn’t actually all that hard. You’ll need to consider which shower head is best for you: a rain or regular head. Or, you can have both – many manufacturers offer combo sets that are simple to install.
Linen Sheets
Moving from the bathroom to the bedroom, look into upgrading your sheets from typical, run-of-the-mill cotton to elegant, soft linen. Linen has long been associated with royalty, as it is a lot harder to make than other materials, and develops an incredibly soft, airy feeling as time wears on.
Linen isn’t just great to settle into – it actually has a lot of advantages over your cotton sheets. Linen lasts significantly longer and breathes a lot better, meaning you’ll stay cooler on warm nights and warmer on cool nights.
The linen is organic, being made from flaxseed. You’ll appreciate the feeling you get as you settle into these sheets, and you’ll feel that much more elegant knowing you are sleeping with royalty… well, sort of!
Wall Art
Adding a few pieces of art to your walls serves a number of purposes, all of which help to give your home a more inviting and enriching feel it. If you pick correctly, you can also add a lot more style to your home.
You don’t need to buy a Picasso to get the benefits from adding wall art. Local artists often sell their art for relatively cheap at local markets and coffee shops, and you’ll have the added benefit of supporting an individual in their work.
You could instead opt for some enlarged photographs of favorite landscapes or beaches. Select a favorite frame, or take advantage of newer printing methods and hang a canvas print or floating image.
Large art or pictures on the wall, tied in nicely with the room’s décor, add an element of style to your home. Not only that, but they can bring an immense amount of enjoyment each and every time you walk by.
Home Automation
Making your home “smart” isn’t just the newest trend – it is both incredibly helpful and efficient while also giving you the capability to add a lot of luxurious features to your home without a huge expense.
Previously, a lot of home décor features, such as outdoor lighting or an indoor speaker system, required a lot of money and energy. Not only would you have to pay someone a lot of money to run wires all over, but you’d also have to manually turn the feature on and off each and every time.
Nowadays, smart technology allows you to add some or all of these features with ease, and without breaking the bank. You can coordinate your outdoor lighting to make your place light up in elegance at night, and you can do it with ease thanks to automation.
There are a number of areas to up your game, ranging from locks to lighting to sound. And, all of it can be set up on a schedule and controlled from your smartphone.
Build a Furniture Piece
If you’re really short on money, lean into the newest trend by crafting your own DIY furniture piece to display in your home. You can usually do it on the cheap, and you’ll get a unique piece that will become the center point of conversations.
There are a number of simple DIY projects you can start with, like building a farmhouse dining room table or a few simple decorative planter boxes. By building it yourself, you can completely control the finished product, including the material you use and the color you make it.
Homemade products are very popular and trendy right now, and you’ll be able to tell your family and friends all about your handiwork. Beyond that, you’ll end up with an elegant piece that only adds to the look and feel of your home.
Upgrade your Lighting
We talked a bit about lighting earlier, but lighting deserves its own section in and of itself. Lighting is one of the biggest ways you can cheaply add to the value of your home while simultaneously improving the ambiance at the same time.
There are a number of ways to do this:
- Swap out your traditional bulbs for some stylish Edison-style bulbs. Use these in areas where the bulb is exposed.
- Pick up a chandelier on a discount and hang it in your dining room. Chandeliers alone can become the center point for an otherwise drab room, and it is very simple to
- Add colored lighting to certain areas of your home for added mood effects. You can sync this with your phone to be timed for certain colors at certain times. And there are so many cool places to buy neon lights so that you don’t have to be stuck with just one style.
- Add lighting outside to your main landscape features like trees and a pathway that is solar powered, making it super simple
Nowadays, with solar powering and home automation, adding lighting to your home is simple to do and doesn’t cost very much.
Stylish Window Treatment
Oftentimes, blinds and window treatments get forgotten about, and homeowners are missing a huge opportunity to add a little bit of luxury. While window treatment isn’t exactly cheap, it can singlehandedly improve the feel of the entire room.
Window treatment has the added benefit of being very functional. At night time, blinds are closed for privacy. And during the day, blinds can be opened or closed to keep heat out or in. Window treatments come in all sorts of fabrics, colors, and patterns nowadays. For a simple room, adding a pop of color or some texture vAriation can insert immediate impact.
No matter which of the methods we’ve outlined that you chose to pursue, don’t settle for a home that lacks some elements of taste and style. While you might not be able to get everything accomplished for your home right now, taking small steps toward making it the home of your dreams will go a long way.
