Remove some of the furniture.
I remember when I first purchased my place, the model home looked so spacious. Once I moved all my furniture in, it disappointingly looked smaller -- much smaller, even though I purchased an identical unit. Visit some model homes and you'll see the tricks professional realtors use to create the illusion of more room. You'll almost never see a king-sized bed in the bedroom, for example. The furniture they use is always very compact, making the room 'seem' bigger than it really is.
The best way to make a room feel larger is to buy smaller scale furniture. Notice in the photo below that the black sofa is really a loveseat. The scale and proportions of the sofa and the dainty armchairs create more circulation area. Large sofas, armchairs and tables will make a small room feel crowded, whereas properly scaled furniture won't.
Also, leggy furniture works much better in a small space than furniture that sits on the ground. Notice that every piece of furniture in the room below sits on high legs. Also, lucite and acrylic furnishings (like the coffee table below) are perfect for smaller spaces because they don't take up any visual space.
If you have to have guests over, having an adequate amount of seating is important. You can squeeze in tons of seating without taking up visual space by using stools, like the photos above and below.
Other pieces of furniture that are perfect for visually creating a larger space without sacrificing utility are daybeds, such as this one by Mies van der Rohe in the photo below. Because daybeds lack a back, your eye doesn't "hit" anything until the wall behind it.
Another way to visually increase the height of a space is to install curtains several inches higher than the top of the window. It's a bit hard to see in the photo below, but notice how much higher the curtain rods are than where the window begins in this photo below.
In this apartment, the windows actually are tiny squares... very odd looking, and hard to design around. The designer, Nate Berkus, fools the eye by installing curtains as if they were actually full height windows.
I don't think that small rooms should always have light colored walls. Dark colors actually recess, so visually the walls are pushed back. Dark paint colors are actually great in small spaces, especially for spaces where you need to put furniture right against the walls (versus floating them in the center of the room). See:my answer to What are the best paint colors for small spaces and why?
I remember when I first purchased my place, the model home looked so spacious. Once I moved all my furniture in, it disappointingly looked smaller -- much smaller, even though I purchased an identical unit. Visit some model homes and you'll see the tricks professional realtors use to create the illusion of more room. You'll almost never see a king-sized bed in the bedroom, for example. The furniture they use is always very compact, making the room 'seem' bigger than it really is.
The best way to make a room feel larger is to buy smaller scale furniture. Notice in the photo below that the black sofa is really a loveseat. The scale and proportions of the sofa and the dainty armchairs create more circulation area. Large sofas, armchairs and tables will make a small room feel crowded, whereas properly scaled furniture won't.
Also, leggy furniture works much better in a small space than furniture that sits on the ground. Notice that every piece of furniture in the room below sits on high legs. Also, lucite and acrylic furnishings (like the coffee table below) are perfect for smaller spaces because they don't take up any visual space.
If you have to have guests over, having an adequate amount of seating is important. You can squeeze in tons of seating without taking up visual space by using stools, like the photos above and below.
Other pieces of furniture that are perfect for visually creating a larger space without sacrificing utility are daybeds, such as this one by Mies van der Rohe in the photo below. Because daybeds lack a back, your eye doesn't "hit" anything until the wall behind it.
Another way to visually increase the height of a space is to install curtains several inches higher than the top of the window. It's a bit hard to see in the photo below, but notice how much higher the curtain rods are than where the window begins in this photo below.
In this apartment, the windows actually are tiny squares... very odd looking, and hard to design around. The designer, Nate Berkus, fools the eye by installing curtains as if they were actually full height windows.
I don't think that small rooms should always have light colored walls. Dark colors actually recess, so visually the walls are pushed back. Dark paint colors are actually great in small spaces, especially for spaces where you need to put furniture right against the walls (versus floating them in the center of the room). See:my answer to What are the best paint colors for small spaces and why?
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