Small Rooms Get Big: How To Revamp Your Small Rooms

Tips on how to make a small room look and feel bigger!

These days, apartments and homes in general seem to be getting smaller and smaller. With this comes smaller rooms. With these simple tricks, making your living room, bedroom or study look much larger is easy and fun!





























1) Stick to light or neutral colours! Light colours reflect light, and thus make a room feel much larger than say, navy blue.

2) Don’t clutter up your floor space with useless furniture. Trim down your furnishings into a collection of useful and beautiful items. Invest in furniture that can pull double-duty, such as my perennial favourite, the ottoman storage box.

3) Use your walls effectively! Hang larger framed pictures or paintings as opposed to many small framed pictures and paintings because having one large frame is a cleaner line.

4) On a similar note, look for spaces in unusual places. Place items that would normally be hanging around in the open in the newfound storage. If you have room under the bed, put storage boxes underneath. I actually store my bed linen there, in a covered long box. Some retailers may sell special boxes that are long and narrow, designed to go under the bed. Additionally, closets often have space above where your clothes are hung. Use the space. Don’t let this precious space go to waste!

5) Invest in a large mirror! Mirrors double the light in a room and also trick the eye. This is probably the easiest and most effective trick of all.

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