Nobody wants to hear that sentence when welcoming someone into their home for the first time. While it may not always be said with negative connotations in mind, it essentially means the house is either cluttered, poorly designed, or both. Neither of those are positive attributes.
But don’t fret! Even if you have heard this sentence a million times, all is not lost. In fact, changing the perceptions of the size of your house can be done quite simply, and for not a lot of money. These may only seem like small changes, and some may even seem ludicrous, but they all amount to the potential for big change.
Here are some tips you may want to consider:
Neutral Colours
A mix of colours alerts you to every individual item in a room. As you scan across, your eyes will be drawn to the sofa, the door, the skirting board, the TV unit, and so on. This is simply how the eye works. The trick is, if you want to appear more spacious, is to use one neutral colours for 90% of the items, and the remaining 10% of colours should be made up of similarly subtle colours. For example, if you have a lily white colour scheme throughout, anybody looking at the room will simply glide over everything. They are no longer seeing individual items placed in the same place - they are looking at one unified room.
Remove Clutter
That said, maybe you DO have too much stuff in the room! No one wants to feel claustrophobic in a room, living with the imminent threat of a cave-in. So if you don’t need it in the room, remove it. Ornaments are well and good, but too many together again create the illusion that the walls are closing in. One way around this problem is to get furniture with storage capabilities, like window benches or sofas with slide out drawers.This way, you are keeping the items to hand, but out of sight.
Mirrors
If you have ever looked in the back of fridges at supermarkets, you’ll see that they almost always have a mirror at the back. This is to create the illusion that the fridge is more full than it actually is, as consumer psychology teaches that people are more likely to buy from a fridge that looks full than one that looks empty. This can be translated to the walls you your house. The use of aesthetically pleasing mirrors in most of the rooms of the house will once again trick the eyes into thinking there is more room. And if you REALLY want to give the impression that your house is huge, consider getting mirrored walls or ceilings!
Stripes
“Vertical stripes are slimming” is a long held belief in the world of fashion. If people want to look slimmer, they deploy pinstripe suits or stripy dresses. This applies to interior design too. Looking to the floor, a stripy pattern on the floor can expand the width of the room visually. Put you can also move this theory onto the walls. Striped wallpaper is one option, but it works bested when teams with long ornaments. Think full length mirrors, or tall paintings. Anything that gives the room verticality can make the ceiling seem further away than it actually is, up to and including raising the height of your curtain rack!
How to make your house look more spacious
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