Designing a luxury home requires a keen eye for detail and a focus on maximizing the use of space while maintaining an elegant aesthetic. My name is Harry. We will be talking about how to make your home look expensive. Before we begin, we would like to thank Paramount Property for sponsoring today’s venue at the Ashwood Paramount Property Gallery Showroom. The Ashwood is located along Kuala Lumpur’s distinguished Embassy Row U-Thant. The U-thant Enclave is more than an elite neighborhood.
It stands as a premium address for the expat living and the privileged class. 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. Let’s start with today’s main agenda of sharing with you how to make your home look opulent, stylish, practical, and, most importantly, expensive.
Tip Number One: Create Visual Interest
Here are some top tips worth noting down. Got your pen and paper ready? Here goes tip number one: Create visual interest. Most people would miss out on taking the opportunity of long corridors and corner bare walls. In this project, for instance, once you enter the property, the first sight would be this bare corner wall painted in a 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 a light wood veneer finish.
This naturally elevates the impression of the interior space and sets the home to look luxurious, calming and cosy. It also improves the acoustic of the property. 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 website have marble finishes across walls, floors or even carpentry. Instead of compromising on natural materials and giving 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, and it includes a built-in oven, microwave, and even refrigerator. The remaining countertop space is highlighted in travertine stone, which 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 while keeping the expensive look.
Tip Number Two: Implement Mirrors in Your Space
Tip number two: Implement mirrors in your space. It may seem relatively simple, but the location and size of the mirror does make a huge difference. Applying large mirrors in interior spaces at the right spot could amplify spatial impression and elevate the look, the sense of class and elegance. However, if there are 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 the 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 with the creative thought of mirror placement. The large round mirror that’s placed here makes an illusion of an opening to a different space and it adds a captivating touch to the open floor plan.
Tip Number Three: Choose a Timeless Color Scheme
Tip number three: Choose a timeless colour scheme. A monochromatic colour scheme using shades of a single colour can create a calming, elegant look. You should not mix more than three to four colours in your mood board to create balance and consistency. A common mistake made by most homeowners when designing their own homes is having multiple design concepts within an apartment.
The selection of furniture is also a key game changer. Before purchasing any furniture 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 complimenting mood board outcome.
Tip Number Four: Emphasize on Lighting
Let’s get to tip number four: Emphasize on lighting. Good lighting 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. The curtains along the L-shaped balcony display light troughs that are hidden within the curtain. This creates a washed-out, diffused interior lighting mood for the living area.
And because 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 upthrow lighting that gives a comforting glow to the timber ceiling feature. Spotlights, also commonly known as eyeball lighting, are a must-have to have to create a classy ambience for your home.
Tip Number Five: Personalize Your Space
And finally, tip number five, our most important tip of the day: Personalize your space. 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 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 in the dry kitchen or the dining area? In this property, the design intention was to hide the extra room as a hidden private mini theatre 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. Design and personalize spaces that create purpose and give a reason to your lifestyle. Compared to having several spare bedrooms and ending up housing guests only once a year. Space is critical. Make every corner and design purposeful. Consider the flow of the space. Ensure that the layout of the apartment allows for easy movement and a sense of flow between the different areas.
The Ashwood boasts 302 units of condominium and 40 units of 2-storey duplexes 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 to allow for fluent cross ventilation and unblock panoramic view of the city skylines and lush landscape view. This episode refers to the Ashwood Type E floor plans. 1707 square feet, 4 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms and comes with a large balcony and 3 to 4 car parks.
Ashwood Condo Features
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, extra space for storage, and a utility room. 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. We hope you gain some knowledge on how to style your home to make it look luxurious and expensive and learn tips to counter the commonly made mistakes in renovating your home.
