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How To Make Your Room Look Larger
Although many new houses today are large, unfortunately they may contain small rooms, a little smaller than we'd like. Small rooms can feel confining and uncomfortable. Luckily we can utilize certain design concepts that fool the eye and make our rooms seem larger. Try these inexpensive decorating tricks to make your rooms live bigger.

1. Use Light Colors
Light and brightly colored walls are more reflective, which will help to maximize the effect created by natural light. This does not mean you have to live with white walls. There are a wide range of light colors paints available, such as light green or cream beige.

Once you've chosen your wall color, choose your trim and moldings colors. Paint your trims and moldings in either the same hue as the walls, or a lighter color. Lighter objects appear closer while darker or shadowed objects appear further away. When you paint your moldings a lighter color, the wall appears further back - thus making your room appear bigger.

Now, don't be worried that your room is going to be bland and uninviting, bolder and darker colors can be be used in furniture, artwork and accessories.

If your colors are already dark, try to move the darker colors to a 'background' role while maximizing your neutral white or ivory. Be careful when using wallpaper. Solid colors are the safest, with tiny patterns taking a close second. Whatever the wall color or finish, we recommend the ceiling in a small room be painted stark white to maximize brightness.

2. Mirrors
Mirrors can have a favorable impact on a room's appearance. A large mirror in the room will reflect light around the room. The mirrors also reflect both natural and artificial light to make a room brighter during the day and night. They bounce light deep into the room, making it appear larger. This is especially effective with near a window so the outdoors can be reflected.

Use glass-front or mirrored cabinet doors to make spaces feel large and uncluttered. Large, expansive mirrors over vanities, mirrored wardrobe doors or a floor-to-ceiling wall of mirrors (combined with our decorating suggestions) can make even the smallest of spaces seem larger.

3. Arrange Furniture At Angles
Arrange some of your larger pieces of furniture at a angle. You don't have to place the furniture at an exact 45 degree angle, often a lesser angle looks best if you can balance the look with another furniture piece.

Setting your furniture at an angle works because the longest straight line in any given room is it's diagonal. When you place your furniture at an angle, it leads the eye along the longer distance, rather than the shorter wall. As an added bonus, you often get some additional storage space behind the piece in the corner, too!

4. Scale Furniture
Keep furnishings in scale with the rooms. In small rooms, use slim rockers, open-back chairs or a simple sofa or love seat rather than overstuffed furnishings to avoid overpowering the space.

There are stores that deal exclusively in furniture for apartments and mobile homes. Despite its slightly smaller size, scaled-down furniture can be beautiful. An open headboard is best for a small room. When furnishing, keep the view at eye level unobstructed. Taller furnishings should be placed at the end of the room opposite its main entry.

K Khan

all this hassel to make it look large!... My rule is.. if the room is smaller then move to a large place.. simple ..

Code_Red

I need to know this -->How To Make Your Room Look Larger ??

but sorry BV your post is not very helpful

Color is light already, so ll the mumbo jumbo is use less after this ...

Mirrors ... hmmm ok.

3. Arrange Furniture At Angles
Arrange some of your larger pieces of furniture at a angle. You don't have to place the furniture at an exact 45 degree angle, often a lesser angle looks best if you can balance the look with another furniture piece.

Setting your furniture at an angle works because the longest straight line in any given room is it's diagonal. When you place your furniture at an angle, it leads the eye along the longer distance, rather than the shorter wall. As an added bonus, you often get some additional storage space behind the piece in the corner, too!

Either i dont get it or it is total crap furniture at an angle ??? It will futher decrease the space !


4. Scale Furniture
Keep furnishings in scale with the rooms. In small rooms, use slim rockers, open-back chairs or a simple sofa or love seat rather than overstuffed furnishings to avoid overpowering the space

This one is only the useful suggestion but what is a Love seat ??

Aleezay

My two sikkay

*Use pattern sparingly--too much will make your rooms look like a television test screen

*Oversize paintings or photographs open up rooms, creating a vista or second window--especially if there is no view.

*Mirrors are a quick fix when trying to visually enlarge a room. Place them in the reveals of windows to frame and expand a view, or set them across from doorways to double the visual impact

*A glass table, whether it is a dining, coffee or end table, will keep keep the appearance of a open and free space

Code_red : Love Seat !


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ahmadjee

using mirrors is so 70s.

funguy

lose some weight

Mahru

funguy- so how does it feel like living in biwi ki muthi mei???

funguy

I wish she had more than two hands

Mahru

hmm what do you mean??? are you suffocating in her two hands?????

funguy

what do I mean? Aap tau shaadi shudda haiN...zara ghaur karaiN, samajh aajayega

Mahru

Shadi shuda tau hoon laikin mei aapki tarha nahi sauchti hoon Mei tau apne dimaagh se sauchti hoon aur aap tau lagta hai.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Mahru

Funguy- Ghaur karne ke baad meri samach mei yeh aya hai ke aap iss lye chahte hain ke uss bechari ke 2 se zyada hath hotay takay woh aik hath se aapki dirty laundry kar rahi hoti , aik hath se breakfast bana rahi hoti, aik hath se khila rahi hoti, aur hand number 4 se aapke kapre press kar rahi hoti ..................................oye susta-l-wajood koi kaam khud bhi kar lya karo. Uske lye zyada hath mangne ke bachai apne lye mango takay aap bhi kuch kar lo zindagi mei.

funguy

aap waqaee dimaagh say sochti hain...

woh Ghalib nay kya farmaaya thaa kay ...haaan... dil ko kabhi kabhi tanha bhi choRR dau

Sara516

Wat is muthi?

Code_Red

Shaair ki rooh ko torture tu na karo

Lazim hai dil ke paas rahey paasban-e-Aql
Lekin kabhi kabhi isey Tanha bhi chore do

Aleezy - Love seat is nice, but does it take less space ?

I did not get rest of your greek

lazy_daisy

Originally in Victorian times and earlier love seats were a type of chair which was an oval type shape which was divided into three seats using a Y type shape.

havent described it well but basically the courting couple would sit next to each other and a chaparone would sit in the part behind them to make nothing untoward happened as they drank their tea and discussed the merits of the hah hah in the garden...

Prelude

lower your expectations.

dil aur dimaagh may jaga banao, kamray may boht jaga ban jaai gee.

X_Communist

My parents always prefer light colors over dark ones for furniture.

Everytime we have guests over (which is more than 4 times a week), parents lay out white sheets over our jumbo carpet with 'gao takiyas' and cushions and the room looks way more spacious.

Slim, neat and unique furnite is a must for my mom. They both hate over loading the room with unnecessary stuff. Never large, dark paintings or such hangings.

Coming home is soo refreshing especially when u've been living with an over crowded, furniture loving family.