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How To Make Your Home Look More High-End: Bobby’s New Project

Photography: Kara Mercer //Styling: Teressa Johnson
BY: Bobby Berk Editorial Team

Want your home to feel a little more high-end without blowing your budget? You don’t need pricy products or custom construction — just a few smart design moves. It’s all about incorporating details that feel luxurious. And Bobby’s latest project is full of materials and features that elevate the interior – and demonstrate how to make your home look more high-end!

Part of the Tri Pointe Homes Alterra community in Newcastle, Washington, this 3,360 square foot home certainly has a luxurious feel. However, it’s still relaxed, cozy, and comfy, while embracing earth tones. How did Bobby balance an elevated look with easy living? And how can you do the same in your own space? Let’s take a look.

 

 

 

Living room with a black stone fireplace wall and wall-mounted TV, a cream sectional with a knit throw, a dark wood coffee table and two black leather chairs
Photo: Kara Mercer
Close view of a cream sofa with brown and striped pillows, a table lamp and a dark kitchen with a stone backsplash behind it
Kitchen with dark wood cabinets, a stainless steel range and hood, a marbled stone backsplash and a large vase with autumn leaves
Kitchen island with a dark stone waterfall edge, three wood counter stools with cream seats, brass pendant lights and dark wood cabinets

Make Your Home Look More High-End

Extend Your Stone Onto The Backsplash

Simply extending one material can be the key to a luxe look. In this kitchen, Bobby and the design team opted for Fantasy Brown marble for the perimeter counter and backsplash, creating a seamless look that screams luxury. Even if you opt for a less expensive engineered stone like Quartz, taking your counter material up to the splash is going to make your kitchen look more expensive. Plus, a solid stone backsplash is easier to clean than tile!

Kitchen with a dark stone island set with food and bowls, brass pendant lights, dark wood cabinets, a roman shade and leather dining chairs
Photo: Kara Mercer
Music corner with a guitar, a mauve armchair, a white loveseat, a round leather ottoman, a music stand and a framed black-and-white photo on a wood-toned wall with built-in shelves

Make Your Home Look More High-End

Bring In Built-Ins

Any design feature that is created just for your space is going to look totally luxe. We’re talking built-in shelving, storage, bookcases, or banquettes. In this project, a pair of built-in shelves with closed storage at the bottom flank a sofa in the study, and make this space stand out by building in.

 

Even if you can’t go fully custom, you can also fake a built-in by simply adding trim to the top of a freestanding bookcase to make it appear that it was fabricated just for you.

Get the Look: Elevated Earth Tones - numbered collage of products including a wall print, a wood coffee table, a side table, pillows, a bench, a candle, a table lamp, a round ottoman, a floor lamp, a black chair, a vase and a rug

1. Abstract Photography Print | 2. Olin Coffee Table | 3. Marble Top End Table | 4. Dark Beige New Zealand Sheepskin | 5. Naveah Ikat Printed Pillow | 6. Modern Brown Velvet Bench | 7. Bold Center Mixed Stripe Pillow | 8. Rustic Palo Santo Candle | 9. Callum 17″ Ottoman | 10. Rustic Ceramic Pot Table Lamp | 11. Rosemarie Gold Sand Area Rug | 12. Greta Chair | 13. Tiered Glass Vase | 14. Garner Floor Lamp

 

Bathroom with a freestanding tub, a black and white checkered floor, a window with trees outside, a small round side table and a sheepskin rug

Make Your Home Look More High-End

Fit In A Freestanding Tub 

There’s just something about a freestanding bathtub that instantly says luxury. It turns your bathroom into more than just a functional space — it becomes more like your own personal spa. If you have the space, consider an elegant, sculptural tub to give the whole room a more high-end feel. And placing the tub in front of a window, as Bobby did in the home, only adds to the appeal.

Bathroom with a freestanding tub, a checkered floor and a glass-enclosed tiled shower with a black frame
Photo: Kara Mercer
Bedroom with a dark wood paneled wall, a round mirror, an upholstered bed with white bedding, a brown bench and a black chandelier, with sliding white doors to a sitting room
Bed with white and rust-colored pillows and a fluffy white throw against a dark wood paneled wall with a round mirror and a black nightstand
Photo: Kara Mercer

Make Your Home Look More High-End

Add A Textured Wallcovering

Textured wallcoverings bring in depth, dimension, and a tactile quality that paint just can’t match. Whether it’s grasscloth, metallic, or the wood grain finish shown in this bedroom, it adds a layer of richness that makes the room feel more finished and sophisticated. Even bringing in a single accent wall can be the difference between an ordinary interior and a space that wows.

 

 

Sitting nook with a patterned black and white wallpaper, a black arched bookcase, a cream daybed with a mauve throw and a framed sketch above a window
Living room with two cream sofas, a woven wood coffee table, round brown ottomans, a black chandelier, a gold floor lamp and a gallery wall of framed art
Photo: Kara Mercer
Bedroom corner with a mauve wall, a black metal bed, burgundy and white bedding, a white nightstand, two framed botanical prints and a round glass pendant light
Photo: Kara Mercer

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  1. hi! bobby! I love you, well your style anyways!! kk. so my comments are: if you mean feedback by comments…lol.

    not so sure abt the barn doors, anymore…I do still like French…dutch..

    LOVE the picture in the middle of the window frame. AWESOMENESS!

    the kitchen with table and chairs on one side…so cool!

    ok…gotta go for now…kid…cat…bye!

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