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Make Your Home Look Spacious

By Anvi Mehta

A small house according to square feet area can be made to look bigger in volume and space. Similarly a larger square feet house can look smaller in volume and space. All this space and area depends on how you decorate and accommodate your house. It is the illusion of space that can make a house look smaller or bigger.

There are number of home improvement methods to make your house look bigger and spacious. These methods include several small thing like the room decor, paint, furniture and alignment of furniture in the room. A few tips for the rearrangement and home improvement to make your house look spacious are as follows:-

The Lights

The Lights

Using bright and well distributed lighting system helps to make the house look bigger. It helps create an illusion of a bigger room. The bright light makes the whole space look better and every part of the room gets highlighted. If the room is with diminished lights than it appears to be dull and small.

The Painting

The Painting

Using light hues and similar shades in the house makes the house look spacious. The whites, off whites, beige and other warm colours make the house seem bigger. This is a good house improvement technique to make the house look spacious. So next ti you want your house to look spacious make it a point to use light shades of paint all over the house. Also using the same colour with different shades can also make your house spacious.

The Furniture

The Furniture

Using minimal and simple furniture for decorating your house can help in making the house look spacious. Using armchairs, floor seaters, sofa cum beds, folding chairs and folding dinner tables can save a lot of space and make a delusion of a bigger space. The big and large furniture should be replaced with comfortable and compact furniture. This is a good house improvement method to make your house look spacious.

The Unwanted

The Unwanted

You should always try and avoid over stuffing of furniture and other accessories in the house. Discard all the unwanted and old furniture pieces, clothes and other home appliances to make that extra space in the house. This will let you remove all the unwanted things from home.

The Mirror

The Mirror

One should use this old house decor and improvement technique to decorate houses and make it look spacious. Mirrors are an olden time piece of interior decoration which when kept in angles to each other gives an illusion of a spacious house. Mirrors give your house a spacious and a 70's look that portrays simplicity and elegance.

Simple Tips

Simple Tips

Apart from these few little home improvement tips there are some other small changes that and make your house look spacious. One such small house improvement tip is to use brighter colors for the ceiling that makes the house look heightened. Other such tip is to use minimal decor and light accessories for the house. Also keeping the window curtains open helps in making the house look huge and spacious. These few tips can be used for house improvement. Using them would surely help your less square feet area look much more spacious than expected. Hope you get help from these few little tips. Make your house more beautiful and spacious.

Story first published: Friday, November 15, 2013, 18:18 [IST]
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