The Difference Between a Luxury Home and One That Just Looks Expensive

According to Elle Decor, the best-appointed homes share four deliberate design choices that read as effortless rather than staged. It is the layer a buyer or guest feels before they can name it — the line between a house that looks decorated and one that simply looks right. In Palm Beach and Naples, where a home's ease is as much a selling point as its square footage, that distinction is the whole game.

With reporting from Elle Decor.