5 Affordable and Simple Tips to Make Your Apartment Look Luxurious

If you want to amp up the look of your space, you are going to want to check out these 12 amazing tips on how to make your apartment look expensive.

Having an apartment that looks expensive without being expensive is something that everyone wants to accomplish, right?!

There’s little tips and tricks that you can do to instantly take your apartment to the next level with decor.

I am showing you how to make your apartment look expensive while sticking to a budget. These are my favorite tips + hacks I swear by that can instantly elevate your apartment into looking like you spent way more money on decorating it than you actually did.
This post is all about how to make your apartment look expensive.

HOW TO MAKE YOUR APARTMENT LOOK EXPENSIVE

Tip #1: Get king size pillows for a queen bed

In my aparmetn, I have two queen size beds but I use king size pillows on both of them. This instantly makes the bed look more grand and expensive. Surprisingly, you can find king size pillows at really good prices. I got mine from Costco in a set of 2 for $20. Queen size pillows would have cost nearly the same price but these make the bed look so much more full and almost “hotel-like.”

I also have these amazing silk pillowcases amazing silk pillowcases on my bed that were only $10 from Amazon. They have a zipper so that the pillows don’t stick out of the cover and just look all around more polished. I highly recommend these, I’ve washed them a million times and they are holding up amazing, especially for the price.

Tip #2: Bring your curtains to the ceiling and make sure they touch the floor

THIS IS HUGE. When hanging curtains, make sure they are long enough so they go to the top of your ceiling and hit the floor. My rule of thumb is to hang the curtains 2-3 inches from the top of your ceiling or molding. Then, they need to be long enough that they hit the floor. Unless you get custom curtains, it’s very rare that your curtains will perfectly sweep the floor so what I did, being my extra as usual, was hand sew the bottom of the curtain so it swept the floor and looked “custom” without paying for custom prices.

Tip #3: Get rugs that ACTUALLY fit your space correctly

A rug that is too small for your space can instantly make your room look cheap. To be honest, I even messed up on this with my living room rug (see if you can figure out why…hah! hint: the left side  ).

Tip #4: Get two comforters to make your bed look more fluffy

Everyone wants their bed to look like a hotel bed, and a way to get that extra fluffy look is to add two comforters into your duvet.

Tip #5: Get pillows that are choppable

Pillows do HUGE things for a room and you can easily tell a cheap pillow from an expensive pillow. To make your room look expensive, get down-pillows that are choppable. I know I know, some people are against down pillows but if you look at the top interior designers, I can almost promise you that all their pillows will be chopped.

It’s really easy to test a pillow to see if it’s choppable. Fluff it out, and karate chop it.

HomeGoods has really good choppable pillows. Target is just beginning to sell choppable pillows so there definitely are a few affordable places to find them.