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4 furnishing tips: This is how your living room looks much more expensive
Do you want your living room look expensive and elegant without spending a lot of money or buying designer furniture? We have four cheap interior hacks that immediately make your living room furnishings look higher.
For me, the living room is the center of the apartment. Here I make it comfortable on the weekend or after working on the sofa. Even if friends or family drop by, the living room is usually the number one lounge.
No wonder that you want to have it particularly chic and cozy at this place of wellbeing. But how can you make the living room look higher even without expensive designer furniture? I have four simple tricks for you, which also have a big effect with little money.
#1 big instead of small
A simple trick to make the living room look elegant and expensive is to optimize the wall decoration. It is often enough for the expensive look in the living room if you replace pictures instead of in small photo format for which in a poster size (and you have a simple but noble wooden frame like this fromAmazon* missed).
Large pictures appear more high -quality and they have one more advantage: the large -format wall decoration is in effectsignificantly larger.
Another tip with which the art on your walls looks like much more expensive: arrange the pictures with a system instead of just hanging it indiscriminately. If you design a noble picture wall, you can also use small photos in between. First put your selection on the floor and arrange the pictures until you like it. Only then does it work.
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#2 less is more
Little things accumulate faster than you think. Therefore, make a look at the open shelves and book cupboards. Often all sorts of odds and ends hide here that makes the living room look overfilled and messy.
Of course, you don't have to throw away all your travelouvenirs and decorative items right away. On the contrary: Better choose two to three things that are really important to you and give them between book supports (Here at Amazon*) Or small places of honor on the sideboard.
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A tip for everyone who loves upcycling: give your old vases a new, high-quality terracotta look with a simple trick. Beppinsele the vases with a mixture of baking powder and wall or acrylic paint. So you don't have to sort them out and also have a great new decorative highlight in the living room.
The Terracotta vases can no longer be filled with water and fresh flowers, but dry flowers and shrubs make themselves wonderful. They also last much longer than fresh flowers and are now available for little money in many decorative shops.
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#3 A harmonious color palette
Another trick for a living room, which is more expensive in the Nu: Take the end of the colorful mix of color. For a high -quality looking living room you can go to the60-30-10 ruleorient. Furniture professionals swear by it.
The main color should60 percentTake the room, for example walls and large pieces of furniture.30 percentare kept in your secondary color. In this tone you choose curtains or carpets. As an accent color you use for the last10 percentDecorative items or sofa cushions.
If you can't even reject the living room or don't want to replace your sideboard, you can already achieve this effect with little things: a matching cuddly ceiling (e.g. fromMYLUNE HOME*) On the sofa, new pillow sleeves or pretty curtains.
Speaking of curtains: floor -length curtains in subtle colors do not cost much, but make the room look just brighter and more elegant than, for example, blinds do.
#4 The right lighting
Lamps and lights have a greater effect than most people think. And that doesn't need to be the most expensive designer pieces, there are many affordable options that look just as stylish and high quality-and can change the ambience of the room. With these tips it works:
Exchange the lampshade
Sometimes it can be as simple as exchanging an old lampshade for a modern variant. Don't just look around for this in online shops. At flea markets and in second-hand shops, there are sometimes real treasures to discover with which you at the same time settle off from the crowd.
Dimmable light bulb
Fly bulbs that can dim and change the color are totally trendy. With them you can adapt the light intensity to the respective mood or time of day, which gives the room a more noble atmosphere.
Use multi -layered lighting
Complete the main lighting with a few well-placed table or floor lamps to create different light sources and thus depth in the room. This ensures a more dynamic lighting concept, which looks more valuable.
