Ways to make your apartment look like an expensive penthouse

You have a dream house, don’t you? You’re probably fancying to stay in a plush residence and benefit from all amenities of a luxurious lifestyle and upscale standards. A penthouse in one of the exclusive areas of the city, with a breath-taking view of the cityscape and modern interiors, isn’t it the place you desired all your life? If you’d been living in a penthouse, you’d see your lifetime dream come true.

What is a penthouse?

You’ve probably heard the term mentioned quite often lately because everyone wants to stay in a penthouse. A penthouse is an apartment on an upper, usually, topmost floor of a building, demarcated from the other apartments by its exclusive and luxury features. A couple of years ago, penthouses were used as service rooms on rooftops, but their flexibility made them easier to convert into an ideal living space for those who want luxury and privacy. Penthouses combine the best from both worlds, the dimension of a house with the design features of an apartment. The major attribute of a penthouse is its location because it’s usually close to all institutional, touristic, commercial, and social facilities in your city. Everyone knows that penthouses are apartments swathed in luxury, and understandably, you’d want to live in one if you’d prefer a house in the city.

Paint the walls with a bright colour

Dark colours on the walls make your apartment look small and closed, but brighter colours like cream, white, or light yellow create the impression of open space. You want to feel like you step into a welcoming space when you come home, and if you switch the dark floors and wall colour with brighter hues, you’ll immediately notice an upgrade.

Open up and separate space

You may’ve noticed that most penthouses are created on an open-floor layout, which gives the impression of a larger space. You can make an apartment look like a penthouse if you create a sense of openness, and for this, you need to take down a couple of walls and open the space. If you want to keep the bedroom as a private area, you can open the space between the living room and kitchen. A kitchen designed in the American style with an island in the middle and the equipment and appliance on a wall can make the space look even more spacious. Instead of using doors, you can install wooden dividers that look natural and give a sense of style to the entire home.

The typical penthouse has an open plan layout, so if your apartment has many doors and corridors, hire a contractor to get rid of them. You need doors only for the bedroom and bathroom. Instead of the classical doors, you can use sliding ones or even mirrors because they make the rooms look larger. If possible, install additional windows to add more light to space.

Add more glass

You may’ve noticed that most penthouses have wall-length windows to allow light to enter and offer great views of the city. If you want to convert your apartment into a penthouse, you should consider tearing down some exterior walls and replacing them with windows. For this job, you may need to hire spider lifts to reach the upper floors. Before you start tearing down the walls, check with the local authorities and building management if you can bring any modifications to the building’s structure. The living room and bedroom are the best rooms to have large windows.

Add mirrors on the walls

Mirrors are a great alternative to windows when the building management doesn’t allow you to change the structure. They can create an illusionary space on a flat surface and make your apartment look more spacious than it actually is. However, when you install mirrors around the house, don’t go overboard with them because you don’t want to feel like you’re trapped in a mirror maze. Play with the size of mirrors you install around the house and install them on dressing doors and furniture items.

Besides the mirrors, you can also add gloss to the surfaces to make space look more luxurious. If you’re happy with your furniture, you can only change their faces and doors with ones made from a glossy material. Supposing you don’t afford to change the furniture’s doors, you can switch only the handles. A little bit of shine and glitter makes the house look more luxurious. However, you should ensure that you use a quality finish like dark red, white, graphite, or black.

Get out all oversized and chunky furniture

If you cannot bring structural modifications to your apartment, you can achieve the penthouse effect if you declutter and reorganise the space. It’s imperative to make the most out of the available space. Hide all your clothes behind mirror doors in your dressing. Sliding doors make your home look more spacious and cleverly designed. Use bold colours for decorating the space, but stay away from the walls because, as already discussed, they’d look better in a lighter hue.

Less is more when furnishing and decorating a penthouse, so you should remove all the chunky items you have no use of. Large items take a lot of space, space you don’t have in an apartment, so you should look for furniture and decorations that have a slim profile.

Display your high-tech possessions

A penthouse will have 21st-century technology, so you should display your appliances and tech devices in central positions. If you have home assistant devices and multi-room audio systems, you should showcase them in a place your guests can easily admire them. Install Ambiental lighting controlled remotely to boost your comfort and make your house more functional.

If you’re struggling to put an upgrade plan together, take it one step at a time and focus on gradually changing the look of the rooms.

But if you don’t afford to buy a penthouse because they’re some of the most expensive real estate properties out there, you may want to upgrade yours and make it look like an expensive penthouse. Here is how you can do it.

Cynthia Madison is a young blogger and economics and marketing graduate. She writes about home, lifestyle and family topics and is a senior contributor to popular niche publications.