How to make a small room bigger
Any problematic room can be corrected if you dare to go bold with your space. You can maximize every square inch, creating a comfortable sense of space and utilizing each room to its maximum capacity.
There are two ways of going about it, alter your space physically or use optical illusion to make them appear bigger, smaller, higher, longer or wider.
Physical Solutions
- Get a sledgehammer and knock down walls, doors, windows or anything, just to open up your space into an adjacent one. Better yet, raise your ceiling.
- Replace a hinge door with a sliding or bi-fold door. This way, the space behind the door can be occupied by a piece of furniture or wall hooks.
- Declutter your place. Keep the bare minimum, sort the excess then consider high-level storage.
- Consider space saving furniture that can be folded, stacked, hidden, compact and dual-purposed.
- Replace dangling pendant lights with inset spots, table lamps or floor lamps, in spaces with low ceilings.
Optical illusion (visual tricks)
- Use the same paint color on walls, floors and ceilings to blur their boundaries hence increasing the feeling of space.
- Horizontal patterns on walls or floors fakes a feeling of width whereas vertical stripes low-ceiling rooms appear taller. A dark ceiling makes an overly high ceiling seem lower.
- Shades of paint with high light reflection boosts the sense of space.
- Reduce items on the floor and use wall-hung furniture where possible, this will allow you to see more of the floor creating an illusion of space. Furniture with slender legs and furniture made of glass and acrylic does the same.
