Added: 01/11/2006 |
Quick tips on how to visually change room sizesUp until today have tight squeezing homes, compact condominiums, and down sized apartments made you feel as if the walls were overhanging above you, then, our quick home decorating tips are just what you need to combat your claustrophobia. Consider these pieces of decorating advice and visual tricks to make the rooms the way that you wish it was in no time flat.
Let?s consider these six tricks of home and room decorating.
Trick one is if your room is too long; change room sizes by dividing it into one or two separate areas. Create an area for media viewing, an area for conversation, and an area for music. In fact, the possibilities are never ending. Make use of area rugs in order to define every separate space and tie the whole design together. Use dark colors on the shorter walls at each end of the longer area to make them appear to shorten and advance the space visually.
Trick two is if your room is too narrow you may broaden narrow rooms visually and fool the eye by arranging the furniture diagonally. Also, to add visual width, place linear elements such as rugs, shelves, or art on the short walls. Paint the long walls with a fresh color of paint that will make them look as if they are receding and they might trick the eye and broaden the space. One more option is to paint one wall a richer and darker color and then, hang a beautiful picture on that wall; then hang a mirror with a custom frame on the opposite wall. The reflection of art will make the room seem wider.
Another way to enlarge a small room is to engage a large landscape picture or print with a far off horizon. This will give the room the illusion of additional space.
Trick three can be use if your ceiling is too low. The easiest way to heighten your ceiling visually is to fill your room with tall vertical items, like bookcases. In addition, long curtains that drape on the floor may also add some visual height, so will tall torches or lamps. Painting your ceiling with a light fresh color will make the room appear more open and brighter. Hang pictures with a solid vertical line to heighten a low ceiling. You may add the feeling of height with portrait format prints.
Trick four deals with the room that is too tall. You may lower the ceilings by decorating the room with more horizontal lines. Shelves, crown moldings, and wall art are just some of the objects that can visually change room sizes by lowering the room?s height. One more technique to lower the height of the room is to install chair rails or moldings three quarters of the way up the wall. The trick will visually change room sizes by making it seem shorter. In addition to that, painting your ceilings with a warm dark color may also make the visual space shorter.
Trick five is to be used if your room is too big. Change room sizes by diving it into more intimate areas. Grouping a loveseat with a couple of chairs, a small table and two chairs, a chair and a sofa, or any other arrangement will make your rooms appear cozy. Warm colors may advance the room visually, so you may paint the room with warm colors to make it look more intimate.
Trick six involves decorating a room without windows. You may use prints to bring in space into a room with no or few windows. Landscapes, doorways, and windows lead the eye outward to produce the illusion of added light and space.
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