The master bedroom is an important room to stage in oder to help potential buyers feel right at home. Apartment Therapy recently highlighted tips from designers on how to achieve a posh bedroom look without spending big bucks. A few of their ideas include:

Add overstuffed pillows. Overstuffed decorative throw cushions can offer a luxurious touch. You can buy inserts that are slightly larger. For example, designers with an 18-inch square pillow will buy 20-inch inserts. “You don’t have to go crazy piling sleeping pillows on, but hotels usually dress their beds with two pillows per person,” Apartment Therapy notes.

Bring in a tray. This can be an easy way to add some class to a room. Try placing a tray on a vanity and adding perfume bottles and a candle.

Drape a large blanket. A luxurious blanket can cover up inexpensive bedding. “A big, chunky knit throw placed across the foot of your bed will take the focus off a tired duvet or comforter,” Apartment Therapy notes. “You can also use a vintage tapestry or piece of fabric to update a plain upholstered headboard: Just drape it over the top of the headboard and tuck it behind your pillows near the mattress.”

Don’t forget texture. Layering a room with texture can also make it feel more upscale. You can achieve this through a faux fur throw draped over a side chair or a sheepskin rug displayed on the floor beside the bed. Designers also suggest rattan baskets for adding texture.

Lift the curtains. Rooms can be made to feel bigger and more open by raising curtain rods two to three inches below the ceiling line, designers note. The windows will seem larger and help to define a more elegant space.

More new home construction may finally be coming. Housing permits, a gauge for future construction, climbed 5% in October, reaching the fastest rate of building permit authorizations since 2007, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Tuesday. Broken out, single-family permits increased 3.2% to a rate of 909,000, while multifamily permits rose 8.2% to a rate of 552,000. Permits rose in every region of the country last month and are 14.1% higher than a year ago.

Lawrence Yun, chief economist of the National Association of REALTORS®, called the boost in housing permits “tremendously good news for the housing sector.”

“At 1.46 million units on an annualized basis, housing permits are nearly to the level needed for the country over the long haul,” Yun says. “Since new-home construction kicks off the chain reaction of people trading up and trading down by buying new and selling their existing homes, more housing inventory will surely show up in the market next year.”

October was the second-best month for housing starts so far in 2019. Total housing starts in October, including single-family and multifamily construction, increased 3.8% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.31 million units, the Commerce Department reports. Housing starts are 8.5% higher than a year ago.

“Home builders are seeing more building opportunities as market conditions remain solid,” says Greg Ugalde, chairman of the National Association of Home Builders. “Builder sentiment remains strong, and we are seeing an uptick in buyer traffic.”

The increase in buyer demand is also being driven by lower mortgage rates, which has been helping to lift the pace of single-family permits since April, adds Robert Dietz, the NAHB’s chief economist. “Solid wage growth, healthy employment gains, and an increase in household formations are also contributing to the steady rise in home production,” he says.

Single-family starts have risen for five straight months, “an unusually long streak given the volatility of these data, and are now well above the year-to-date average,” adds Stephen Stanley, chief economist for Amherst Pierpont. “The improvement in affordability has boosted demand for homes this year, and builders are coming through with new product to sell.”

Regionally, combined single-family and multifamily starts in October rose by 6.8% in the South. Meanwhile, housing starts were down 10.3% in the West, by 7.4% in the Midwest, and by 0.5% in the Northeast.