How to make your room look larger?

Everyone likes to live in larger rooms than small, unventilated rooms. But the raising land price and scarcity of land make us to to adjust with narrow living space. But these small tips will help you to make your rooms look larger than as they really are and also will give you the feel of living in a bigger room.

When trying to make your room appear larger, the rule for choosing wall colors is simple. Choose light colors. White, yellow, and pastels of your favorite colors will be the best choice for your room. These lighter shades will reflect light and make the room appear to be larger. Keep the room monochromatic. For example if you chose a pale blue for your wall color, your carpet and window treatments should also be blue, although they can be a shade or two darker. Your upholstered furniture should also be a light blue color, or neutral with blue accents. For your smaller accents, you can use a darker blue color. You may also want to paint your ceiling blue as well, using a color one or two shades lighter than your walls.

Patterns in fabric, wallpaper, and upholstery help to keep the room more interesting; however, large-scale patterns can shrink the size of the room. When choosing wallpaper or fabric, take a ruler with you. If the pattern repeat or pattern images are four or five inches in size, they will be too big for a small room. If the image or pattern repeat is two inches or smaller, it will be a more subtle design and help the room to appear larger. The major exception to this rule is stripes. You can use large stripe pattern vertically to make the room seem larger, or horizontally to make the ceiling appear higher.

Mirrors and glass will also give the room more visual space. Glass dining and occasional tables allow you to see more floor space and not block your view of other furnishings. Mirrors on the wall will effectively double the visual space of the room. The size of the furniture will affect the perceived size of the room. Although an over-sized furniture can add a sense of luxury to the room, they can also make the room too crowded. It is fine to have one such piece in the room, but the other furnishings needs to be scaled down to allow freedom of movement.

Furniture placement is also important. Pushing everything against the wall might help, but it will make the room uninteresting. Instead, try putting furniture on an angle in the corners and using just one piece of furniture against the walls. Multi functional furnishings are also very useful because they allow you to use less furniture in the room. A dining table can serve as a desk, a coffee table can serve as a dining table, futon can be a sofa and a bed, and a loft bed can have a desk underneath.

You will want to choose window treatments that allow you to see outside the room. This invites the outside into the room. In addition, you will want the window treatments to match your wall color to keep with the monochromatic color scheme. Another thing you can do is to use the vertical space. Bookshelves should go all the way up to the ceiling, and pictures and photos should be placed high on the walls. If you lack storage space for items like bicycles and sports equipment, hang them on the wall to make the room spacious.