Small rooms decorating ideas, larger look with the help of light and furniture.

Small room decorating ideas. Almost in every house we meet with such a problem like small spaces decoration. Even if your  bedroom, living room and dining room are big enough, sometimes such areas like bathroom, powder room and laundry can be too small to put all the furniture you need inside. Thanks to new furniture designs there is a big choice of small furniture parts to use it in small rooms, but if you know some more tips you can make your room seem larger than it is with the help of lighting and right placing the furniture.

Lighting. It is good if your room that you are going to decorate is on the  sunny side, has big windows and good lamp. What to do if it is not so but still you want your room to look brighter and larger? Even if you use a lot of lighting and do not care about electricity you use, remember, that dark, cold colours make room look smaller. Warm dark colour also make room seem smaller but cosy. I have already told you in another article about the colours to paint walls and how colours affect size of rooms. So as you can understand it is better to use light and neutral colours. It is not a must to have white walls. You can paint walls in light colours of pink, green, blue, beige, cream.

Trim and moldings’ colour is also important. It is ok to paint them in the same colour with walls or in some lighter colours and white. Do not paint trim in darker colours cause it will make corners sharp. Also light colour of moldings make walls appear further back, so visually your small bedroom or living room looks larger.

Furniture. Do not worry, there is no need to make your room like an egg or like a hospital, you can use dark colours when decorating the room with furniture, art and accessories. Set your furniture at an angle cause diagonal is  longer that the other straight lines. Sure it is not valid for wardrobes but ideal for long sofas, you can also use area behind it in the corner for flowers. Use scaled – down furniture. There is really a big choice of furniture for small rooms, bathrooms, laundry and powder rooms. Do not thing that this type of furniture is ugly. May be you just need to shop around to find something with new design and modern colours.

Wallpapers. If you want to use wallpapers instead of paint buy only solid colours. Any pattern will make your room seem more narrow.

Ceiling. Always paint your ceiling  in white, it will make the walls look higher than they are, it is especially important in small living room and dining room.

Mirrors. Mirror is a great way to make rooms look larger. It not only enlargers room by reflecting the walls but it also reflects light that make rooms lighter and brighter. Although it is not a good idea to put mirrors in the bedrooms and on the ceilings like some people do. It is well known that if you sleep in front of the mirror you can have headache or you can not sleep well. As for the other rooms, you can buy cabinets, vanities, wardrobes with mirrors on the doors and you can make floor to ceiling mirror walls in living room. I do not advice to make big mirrors in dining room also cause it is said that eating in front of the mirror makes you become fatter. It is you to decide to believe it or not. As for home security i do not advice to use big mirrors if you have baby or children in the house. It can be just dangerous for them during playing games. I will also give detailed information on home decorating with mirrors in my next article.

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