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Make A Small Room Look Much Bigger Than It Really Is
How to make a tiny space look bigger?
We all know how difficult it can be when asked a question like that, especially when you’re living in a big city with limited space to begin with.
With the development of City infrastructures, the prices of the houses have eventually risen and gone beyond the ability of most to afford their dream home.
Having and owning a spacious home is often now next to impossible for most people.
Although it is still possible to create an illusion that can make your tiny space look a lot bigger than it actually is without necessarily removing any of the essentials.
You can still enjoy a landscape view, lounge furniture, armchairs and many other larger scale creature comforts.
Want to know how?
Check out these quick and awesome hacks that can help make your home look significantly bigger than it really is.
Use Multi-Utility Items
What are the items that take up most of the space within your house?
Consider replacing them.
Reorganizing your kitchen and using all kind of multi-utility items, for example, instead of shelves, you can use cabinets with partitions that can store many things such as food machinery, containers, ovens etc.
They would provide a lot more functionality compared to a shelf, whilst also not taking up much space.
Similarly, you can use convertible sofa sets and beds in your living room and bedroom.
Likewise, you can also choose a dining table which can get adjusted and has a detachable top to make the most of what you have.
Additionally, you can also revamp your old sofa and make it a funky one.
Likewise, you can do for other furniture sets also.
Create An Illusion For The Ceiling Height
Go for the things which don’t have horizontally big but vertically small.
Keeping a low-slung sofa, large mirrors and curtains that reach the floor length would suffice the requirement.
Additionally, you can also paint the windows according to the exteriors of your house or according to the walls of the room.
Try including the furniture pieces which occupy the maximum square foot.
Doing this will help you execute the illusion in the best possible way.
Make The Most Of Every Corner
Since your house is not so spacious, make the most of every corner.
Include alcove shelves in every corner of the house.
They look very attractive and at the same time would be helpful in storing the maximum amount of extra stuff.
You can paint them using oil paints and can decorate them using flower vases, jute baskets, a marble-filled bowl, a couple of books and so on.
All this will add a little class to your house making it look larger than life.
Colors And Textures
Color and textures would brighten up your room.
So add lots of colors but don’t go overboard.
Choose your color palette wisely.
Try including primary colors such as royal blue, pale yellow, vanilla, and right red color.
Also, make sure that these colors are versatile in nature and can be added with other colors to form different colors.
Just like colors, textures also play a significant role.
A faux leather sofa, silk cushions, shiny lamps, all these add texture creating an illusion of your house having a rich and sophisticated atmosphere.
Be Friends With Shower Curtains
Many people part their washrooms with their bathing rooms which in turn takes a lot of space.
For that extra privacy, they put glass doors which are very expensive.
To reduce the cost, try using shower curtains instead of glass doors.
They provide the maximum opacity and are very budget friendly.
Moreover, you don’t need to squeegee them every time you take a shower.
Use Mirrors
Using mirrors on the walls, especially floor to ceiling mirrors can be one of the most effective methods to make a space look bigger than it is.
Surely, you must remember walking into a room with full-length mirrors along a wall and having the perception that the room is massive, only to realize that the extra space you can see if purely a reflection.
Get Inspired From Magazines
Magazines and design websites contain an infinite number of creative images and tutorials that can make you awestruck. Watch some of the tutorials and cut your favorite images.
Put them together to create a masterpiece.
Adding Skylights
Skylights are amazing as they bring the maximum amount of sunlight in a gloomy room.
They are also inexpensive as compared to other bulbs and tube lights.
A bunch of skylights would cost you around £250, or $300-$350
Create Your Own Rug
If you’re skeptical about rugs and carpets, then you can always create one.
Collect all the unwanted clothes and stitch them.
Who knows, you may end up getting a designer style of carpet.
Additionally, you can also get designs to create one from the internet, also, it would be very cheap.
Add Eye Appealing Kitchen Tiles
By putting kitchen tiles which are laminated, you add to the beauty of it.
You can also match the tiles with a marble worktop.
A customized worktop would cost you around $1500-$2000 and installation charges would be around $150-$200.
Furniture Placement
Don’t put the furniture against the walls.
Sometimes placing a piece of furniture at a particular angle or in an open space would make the room look big.
In the smaller places, use stripes to lengthen the space.
Glass And Lucite Items
Using glass and Lucite pieces are in style at present and can also be multi-purpose without taking up much of the space.
Break The Rules
Just because it is a living room, it doesn’t mean you need to put a sofa set, a coffee table or a television.
Sometimes, going out of the box creates a lot of drama.
Put a swing or a rocking chair or maybe put both.
Be more open to experimenting and exploring your thoughts to get the best outcome.
It’s not always necessary to have a big house to make it look spacious and lavish.
Sometimes, even the smallest houses can create an illusion of being big and luxurious.
Extraordinary things are done by thinking out of the box and working in that tangent. If you want to give a designer look to your house, you can DIY.
All you need is a little effort and willpower to make it work.
So, go ahead make your house one of its kind. After all, a house should always portray the people who’re living in it.