Ever feel a little crowded in your own home? Rearranging your home for a
more roomy look is sometimes much more difficult than it seems. Hiring
someone to redesign is just costly and inefficient. So how do you
completely change the feel of your home with the same stuff in it?
Here are seven great ways to make your home look and feel bigger without having extra cost to hire someone:
De-Clutter Your Entryway and Living Area:
Built-in shelves/drawers is an effective method to declutter your
entryway. Extra shelves and furniture could make your place look cramped
and cluttered, so go with built-in instead! It’s a relatively cheap way
to create more space to organize and make the first thing a visitor
sees in your home look spacious. Built in bookshelves, windows with a
window seat and cushions, storage cabinets, etc. are a great thing to
invest in for your home.
Open Up Doorways:
Renovating and rejuvenating your doorways is a fantastic way to open up
your home. Making these as wide and tall as possible, up to the ceiling
preferably, amplifies your entryways. You can also use wide molding,
transom windows or side lights to add to the effect.
Take Over a Wall:
Whether you are adding a “hidden wardrobe” to your wall or just going to
Ikea to get a ceiling to floor type shelving, this will save you space!
Often times it’s when you have multiple pieces of furniture for your
clothing, like an armoire and a chest of drawers, that things look
cluttered and the room looks smaller.
So open up your bedroom with some well hidden cabinetry or one large
piece of furniture that will hold everything you want it to!
Entice All the Senses:
Go with a color theme and different textures to enliven a room! Add a
table made of mirrors to your living room to enjoy an interesting
medium. Or have a smooth tiling in one room and change the texture by
adding a throw rug or runner carpet. One of my favorite tricks of the
trade to add space and life is to have plants. Plants of all kinds liven
things up and adds a different dynamic to a room. A small pot of
succulents will turn interest and a vase of fresh flowers will add scent
and beauty. Opening doors and windows to the outside also makes a room
look and feel bigger and more enjoyable (and screens come in handy to
keep any unwanted bugs out).
Choose Large Scale Flooring and Tiling:
Using a larger scale tile for your flooring and the walls in your
restroom will make it look more spacious and inviting. Also try changing
up the pattern from floor to wall. For example choose a square foot
size tile for your flooring and install them on a diagonal and choose a
slightly smaller and different textured tile for the walls and shower
and install them on a straight line. This will attract and please the
eye and make your space look larger.
Use Space Under Furniture:
If you’re running out of space for linens, shoes, winter coats and
clothing or even art supplies, utilize the space under your bed and any
other furniture with a gap under it. Buy some cheap plastic bins that
will fit under your bed or just use some old painted shoeboxes or filing
boxes.
Be Sure to Utilize the Backs of Doors:
Hangers for the back of your door are highly underrated in my opinion.
These can be great for shoes, jacket and coats, summer sweaters,
jewelry, a mirror etc. It will give some extra space in your closet or
wall space for other things.
So whether you’re doing a Summer Cleaning and need to de clutter or are
just feeling a little claustrophobic for this sunny season, utilize
these simple steps! It will make all the difference.
