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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Lilith Hudson

Is your room missing something? These are the 7 simple buys that designers always recommend to their clients to instantly pull a space together

A loft bedroom with panelled walls and two twin beds with a patterned bedspread.

There's an ineffable quality to designer homes that gives them their refined, put-together appearance, and it's tricky to place your finger on exactly what's responsible. Arguably, it's not just one thing, but just an expert level of curation that makes them look so elevated. Ask designers, however, and they might just share the one piece they return to time and time again to pull a room together.

Be it a particular piece of furniture or a specific design element, every designer has that 'secret sauce' they swear by for a harmonious space that looks perfectly polished. Think of it as the icing on the cake – the one detail that makes a room look finished, pulling all the other threads together for an expertly curated home. It's something they rely on time and time again, no matter which interior design trends happen to ebb and flow.

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