Mama Mila: Styling expert shares her budget-friendly tips to make your home look expensive

Cleaning and styling ‘queen’ Chantel Mila has shared her cheap and easy methods to make her home look and feel more expensive than it is.

The Melbourne mum-of-two revealed three inexpensive tips, including clever ways to hide cables and a hack to make your towels feel like they’re hotel quality.

‘Treat yourself to simple luxuries, because sometimes it’s the small things make a big difference,’ the mum said. 

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Cleaning and styling ‘queen’ Chantel Mila has shared her favourite methods to make her home look and feel more expensive than it is

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The Melbourne mum-of-two advised her followers to use the ‘rule of thirds’ when displaying items around the home to make areas look more visually appealing (left). Her second tip was to conceal messy wire clutter with cable covers and cable boxes (right)

Her first tip was to conceal messy wire clutter with cable covers and cable boxes.

Chantel bought a management box in Bunnings for $25 and a wall cover for $16. 

‘They’re amazing in our office area and to conceal the wires on our TV without damaging the walls,’ she said. 

She then advised her followers to use the ‘rule of thirds’ when displaying items around the home to make areas look more visually appealing. 

She placed two candles, and a vase of eucalyptus on a small tray next to her bed as a decoration.

The rule of thirds is an interior design concept that outlines an odd number of items placed together looks more aesthetically pleasing than an even number.

Her final tip was to soften towels with liquid detergent and one cup of baking soda to ‘make your home feel like a hotel’.

‘Treat yourself to inexpensive luxury,’ the mum said.

Chantel bought a management box in Bunnings for $25 and a wall cover for $16 (left). Her final tip was to soften your towels with liquid detergent and one cup of baking soda to ‘make your home feel like a hotel’ (right)

Chantel’s followers were grateful for the clever suggestions, particularly the advice to buy cables management boxes.

‘Boxes are great keep dust off the points easier to wipe the box,’ one woman commented.

‘Omg I have been racking my brain with the wire clutter for years, thank you so much!’ another wrote.

‘Love this post. So clean and refreshing vibes,’ another said.