Are you often guilty of making some design mistakes in the past? How can you take your home from cheap to high-end with just some minor changes? Therefore, it’s important to acknowledge some designer tips and tricks on ways that you can improve your home. Today we are going to show you 10 reasons your home might be looking cheap. 

Boob Lights

If you have boob lights around your home, it's giving off a cheap vibe. Builders put them in all the time, it's a very affordable light fixture and practical. Does it give off a high-end look? No, boob lights just give off dated 80s 90s look and it's just out, it's not in at all. So if you can make a little upgrade to your home by switching out those lights for something more statement, modern, or something that stands out as a design feature, in order to take your home to the next level. Your new light fixtures do not have to cost a lot, you can get a ton of great affordable options on Amazon, Home Depot, and Hanseceramictile. This is something everyone can do in their home whether you're a renter or a homeowner, switching out indoor lights does not damage anything. It's not a major change, but it really goes a long way. 

Exposed Cords

If you have a mounted tv with a bunch of cords hanging down, if your desk has a million cords coming down from it, your space is looking cheap. There are some things that you can do to hide your cords. There are cord concealers that are actually paintable, so you can run all your cords down a wall and paint that concealer the same color as your wall. That way it's more hidden, more seamless, and looks so much more orderly. You can also completely hide your cords by putting them behind the drywall, this is something more custom to do. You're putting holes in the wall to string your cords through and pull out the bottom so that they're completely hidden from eye level. If you have the option to do that, it goes a very long way. But if not, you can get cord concealers you can run them down your wall. You can run them down corners hide them in wall trim. There are many ways to conceal their look of them and make your home look tidy cleaner and more high-end. 

Ikea Furniture

One mistake that you can be making is getting too many things from IKEA. If you have an IKEA sofa, an IKEA coffee table, an IKEA console, an IKEA media unit everything is from IKEA. Your home is going to look cheap and it's going to look like the Ikea showroom. Even though some of those spaces are very beautiful. The fact is everyone knows the Ikea pieces and it just gives off a very cheap vibe. You can choose pieces from Ikea to mix in with other furniture pieces to look high-end. You’d better look around at your space if you have maybe more than three IKEA furniture pieces all in one room, your space might be looking a little cheap. 

The same thing goes for matching furniture sets. The way to get a designer high-end look is to mix furniture pieces mix color texture patterns and create a very diverse unique and structured look to your space. This can even go as far as getting a sofa with a mix-matched ottoman. A lot of sectional sofas come with a matching ottoman. Sometimes they don't even come with it, they just offer it to you and people say yes. Just make sure to choose a different one that will bring in a new texture, a new color, a new style that will make your space look so much more high-end by just making that one minor change. If you have matching furniture sets in your home you can take one furniture piece from one space move it to another and that room no longer has a matching set in it. You can improve the look of your home very easily without spending a dime.

Wall Arts

Sometimes wall art can be the reason your space looks cheap if you are picking the very typical pieces from Ikea or HomeSense that we've all seen, we all know they are from there. Then it's just instantly making your space look a little less high-end. Therefore, the best thing you can do is stay away from mass-produced artwork. Home goods and home sense have beautiful artwork, you have to sift through it to find the more unique pieces. Specifically like their framed artwork. They're some of their framed pieces actually have beautiful fabric inside that's very unique or a beautiful print or photography. Those are great to choose from. You can do something different to bring your space together.

Furniture Placements

Another reason your home might be looking cheap is just simply your furniture placement in your bedroom. If your bed is pushed up against the wall in a corner for some reason that's just giving off a cheap kind of dorm room vibe. If you center your bed with two nightstands on either side to create that symmetry, your space will look more high-end. Even if you're using the most affordable furniture pieces, making that one change will improve the space so much more. The same thing goes for your living room. If you have sofas and chairs and everything pushed up against the walls to create more space, it's making your space look cheap. 

You can bring your furniture off, the walls anchor your furniture on a rug create some flow around the space, and create a really unique furniture layout that will instantly upgrade the look of your space without spending anything at all. When you're pushing your furniture around and creating those new furniture layouts, make sure that you anchor your furniture on the correct size rug. Rugs that are too small rugs, that are too big rugs, that are the wrong shape are going to make your space look cheap especially if your rug is too small and it's kind of just floating in the middle of your room and not anchoring anything. The point of the rug is to create comfort to expand the look of your space and anchor all of your furniture on top of it. 

]If you can get at least the front two legs of your furniture pieces on that rug, you're safe. You most likely pick the right size. When it comes to dining room rugs make sure that you can pull the chairs out all the way and the chairs still stay on the rug in a bedroom. Make sure that your rug isn't just floating at the end of the bed, anchor it underneath the bed. Make sure that it expands past your bed lines up with or goes a little bit further than your nightstand and that will be the right size rug for your space. If you love your rug and it is too small, always know that you can just add another rug underneath. You can create a layered look using a flat woven rug and laying your rug on top that way to give off a designer look. You can keep the rug that you love and you can make it look planned out and make it look like it's the right size.

Shoe Racks

Speaking of entryways that's instantly making your home look cheap. When you walk through the door is your messy cluttered shoe rack. There's something that is not high-end about them. If you can get closed storage, a bench that has storage underneath, or the amazing shoe cabinets that are super slim. Don't take up a lot of space but they hide your shoes away in or your front closet. This is something that will make a major change to your home.

Tapestries and Twinkle Lights

If you have tapestries and twinkle lights in your home, it's going to look cheap. Twinkle lights should never be inside unless it's Christmas. Tapestries give a loose and not put-together look. It's a bohemian look but you can definitely achieve that bohemian style in a different way. You’d better opt for more boho artwork and maybe candles and lamps that will add mood lighting and atmosphere in a different way.