Ways To Make Your Home Bright

By Padmapreetham Mahalingam

Monday, November 25, 2013, 18:47 [IST]

Does your room feel gloomy and bleak? It is always important to find different ways to brighten up the interiors of your home space. Brightening up your dwelling can bring a new look and freshness to dark interiors. If you want to get out of the gloominess that surrounds your home, choose interior paint colours, furniture and lighting that can make your abode look more cool and cheerful.

Depending on your taste, you can go for colours that catch the attention and make your home bright. If you can't paint your walls in bright colours buy some coloured rugs and chairs to make it look tantalizingly bright. Even taking maximum advantage of sunlight gives the room a natural bright setting and well-ventilated feel. Being in well-lit rooms can make you feel positive and energetic as bright interiors can liven up your mood and create the right cheer. There are a few changes you can bring in while designing your living space so to make it look warm and appealing. Here are six ways to make your make your home bright and radiant and brighten up your rooms.

Add more windows

Obviously putting more windows can be expensive, but this is the way more natural light (sunlight) can come into your house and help get rid of the dark feel. However not everyone can meet the expense of this kind of remodelling technique, which can bring a nice positive change to the home's interiors. This can also give you the chance to replace older windows which can eventually brighten up the room. When your windows are aged and hazy, it will allow very little light inside. Larger windows are a greater option to make your room look larger and it lessens the need for artificial lighting. Clean windows absorb more light and let them seep-in making rooms brighter.

Rearrange your sofas or furniture

Making your home bright and airy can be achieved with the right kind of furniture and accessories. Sea inspired colour tones or white or nice light coloured furniture are great ways to decorate the smaller rooms. For larger rooms opt for darker stuff. If you want to interplay with a bright and bold combination, compliment your sofa and cushion in hues of green and pink with amazing lampshades. Dark wood toned furniture like cherry and mahogany can make your room look even darker, so instead pick furniture with light wood tones like pine, oak or maple. You can also invest in white wicker and rattan furniture to achieve a brighter, open and airy feel. Make sure not to place your furniture in front of the windows if you want to bring more light around the room.

Use lamps

To make your home bright, invest in lamps instead of relying on overhead lights. Using indirect lighting can be a supplement for sunlight. You can add light to your dark living space with silver gold torchiere floor lamp. These are easy and effective lighting fixtures that bounce light off the ceiling and produces stronger glow back down to the living space. Track lights can also add illumination to one's space. You can also install tubular day lighting devices between the roof and ceiling since they provide a soft glow.

Use paints

Luscious cream, ivory, pastels, mint green, exotic coral shades and white bring more light and can even make your home bright when compared to darker colours. Even overhead lights can reflect on the lighter colour of the walls and brighten up the space a lot. The other best option to make your home bright would be to apply a yellow colour not only for a brighter look but also to perk up the interiors.

Mirror

Mirrors can work wonders when placed in strategic locations. Hang attractive decorative mirrors on the walls. Light and dimension can be added to your home interiors with the help of wall mirrors. Large ones can make light to bounce off of the mirrors to the entire room. Even small mirrors provide light and can be arranged in fun and appealing patterns.

Lighten the load of clutter

More objects like furniture and tables getting piled up can make the room look dark and dingy .Clutter has a chance to absorb light and to take away the attention that is needed to make your home bright. Try to remove furniture pieces that are used for multiple purposes so as to make the room spacious.