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10 Budget-Friendly Ways to Transform Your Home into a Luxurious Chateau Under $100

10 Budget-Friendly Ways to Transform Your Home into a Luxurious Chateau Under $100

As you gaze into your phone, tap, tap, tapping out five emails and three texts in the space between of four subway stops, you find yourself longing for simpler, less deliriously-paced times.

When an afternoon could be spent composing the perfect come-for-tea invitation and an innuendo-laced oh-how-delightful riposte. A time when your chateau was your castle and there was nothing that your palazzo's majordomo couldn't fix with brisk and invisible efficiency.

Let's just ignore the painful reality check that you never had a chateau nor a palazzo (to say nothing for that sweet, sweet majordomo). All it will take is a few ridiculously ostentatious and fanciful objets scattered around your house (apartment, studio, shack, whatever), for you pretend that you do.


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