Interior Design Secrets You Should Know: 5 tips to make your home look expensive
Designing a luxury home requires a keen eye for detail and a focus on maximizing the use of space while maintaining an elegant aesthetic. Today’s interior design article on Design Seed is 5 interior design secrets showing you how to make your home look expensive. Many thanks to Paramount Property for sponsoring today’s venue at the Ashwood Paramount Property Gallery Showroom.
The Ashwood is located along the Kuala Lumpur’s distinguished Embassy Row U-thant. The U-thant Enclave is more than an elite neighborhood. The Ashwood stands as a symbol of exclusivity and opulence within this distinguished address. So with such exclusivity, we took this opportunity to feature their show home as a benchmark of today’s topic on how to make your home look expensive. Here are some top tips worth noting down to make your home look opulent, stylish, practical, and most importantly, expensive looking.
1. Create visual interest With Interior Design
Most people would miss out on taking opportunity of long corridors and corner bare walls. This project, for instance, once you enter the property, the first sight would be this corner bare wall painted in conventional off white colour. The designers of this project took this opportunity to dress up the entire corner wall, including the long corridor walls, with light wood veneer finish. This naturally elevates the impression of the interior space, setting the home to look luxurious, calming and cosy. It also improves acoustic for the property too.
Creating visual interest is like setting an aim to a focal point. If you want your kitchen to look expensive without breaking the bank, this is definitely a worthy tip to note down. Most ultra luxurious homes we’ve featured on our YouTube channel have luxurious marble finishes across walls, floors or even carpentry. Instead of compromising on natural materials and give in to artificial or alternative man-made materials like marble looking tiles or laminates, this would be a wiser alternative.
The kitchen is designed to maximise storage and functionality, which includes a built-in oven, microwave and even a refrigerator. The remaining counter top space is highlighted in travertine stone that adds an opulent and stylish character to the entire kitchen design. Instead of having the entire kitchen wall and island furnished in marble or granite, this would definitely be a more affordable option and yet keeps the expensive look.
2. Implement mirrors in your space
It may seem relatively simple, but the location and size of the mirror make a huge difference. Applying large mirrors in interior spaces at the right spot can amplify spatial impression and elevate the sense of class and elegance. However, if there’s too many mirrors, the spaces will look messy or placing mirrors right when you enter a room could also be frightening. The Ashwood apartment is intentionally designed with an L-shaped balcony that allows for a panoramic view of Kuala Lumpur city skyline and a lush view of the Royal Selangor golf course.
And due to the L-shaped sliding doors, the dining table seems like it’s parked off center. The design intention was tackled by a creative thought of mirror placement. The large round mirror placed here makes an illusion of an opening to a different space and it adds a captivating touch to the open floor plan.
3. Choose a timeless colour scheme
A monochromatic color scheme using shades of a single color can create a calming, elegant look. You should not mix more than three to four colors in your mood board to create balance and consistency. And a common mistake made by most home owners in designing their own home is to have multiple design concepts within an apartment.
The selection of furnitures are also a key game changer. Before purchasing any furnitures or loose fittings, always refer to the rest of the colour palettes of your interior space. This would allow you to achieve a more cohesive and complementing mood board outcome. Before we proceed to the next tip, let us first introduce Design Seed’s membership programme. If you’re new to our channel, please support us by clicking on the join button to contribute a small token of appreciation to motivate us. Thank you for your kind support.
4. Emphasize on lighting
Good lighting in interior design can make a small apartment appear much larger and more luxurious. Use a combination of overhead lighting, task lighting, and accent lighting to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere. Along the L-shaped balcony are light troughs that are hidden within the curtains. This creates a washed out, diffused interior lighting mood for the living area.
As the ceiling at the living and dining area has a feature timber ceiling, the feature wall along the living area was intentionally designed to allow for up throw lighting that gives a comforting glow for the timber ceiling feature. Spotlights, also commonly known as eyeball fittings, are a must have to create a classy ambience for your home.
5. Personalise your space
Finally, the most important interior design tip of the day. Don’t design a space because you saw it in your friend’s home or because you have an extra room and just decide to furnish it with another bedroom set for your guests. Personalize your home with an interior design style you like, based on your family lifestyle.
If you have an extra room to spare, ask yourself, do you need a private study space or could you settle with working casually at the dry kitchen or the dining area? In this property, the interior design intention was to hide the extra room as a hidden private mini theater for the young couple to enjoy their personal movie nights. For Netflix and YouTube fans, this is an idea you could consider.
In an apartment, you will realize functional spaces is luxury. Personalize spaces in its interior design that create purpose and give a reason to your lifestyle. Compared to having several spare bedrooms and end up housing guests only once a year. Space is critical. Make every corner and design is purposeful. Consider the flow of the space. Ensure that the layout of the apartment allows for easy movement and provides a cohesive sense of flow between the different areas.
The Ashwood boasts 302 units of condominium, 40 units of 2 storey duplex alongside the low rise development with only 12 units of 3 to 4 storey villas, making the property a truly rare find in the city. Architecturally designed to have wide windows, allowing for fluent cross ventilation and unblocked panoramic view of the city skylines and lush landscape view.
This interior design article refers to the Ashwood Type E floor plans. Comprising 1707 square feet of 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms, it comes with a large balcony and 3 to 4 car parks. Most condominiums would face challenges having to cook frequently at home, or may not allow for a proper laundry space. But the Ashwood Condo fits a spacious wet kitchen for heavy cooking, a commodious yard for laundry and an extra space for a storage and utility room. Ample space to realise all your interior design dreams.
This property could fit families of various sizes and is also a pet friendly community. If you want to know more about Ashwood, feel free to pop by their show gallery along Jalan Ampang or check them out here.
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