How to Make a Small Room Look Bigger

Here are few tricks for making small spaces look bigger, airier and extremely stylish.

• Small spaces.  In small spaces, a round coffee table works best.  It doesn't matter if the table is not centered in front of the sofa.  It also allows people to move freely.
• Single chair.  Place a single chair opposite a door or window.  This creates a sense of openness.
• Large posters.  Cover the entire wall with a large poster, and then pull your sofa away from the wall.  This creates the illusion of higher ceilings.

Homes Furnishings

Furnish the room with furniture that is not space-consuming.  With easy-care fabrics and surfaces so that fun activities don't have to be curved because of the furniture.  Choose furniture that are not bulky and should be light enough to move around.  Furnishings need not be expensive, they can be striking simple yet full of interest.

Bedroom Decorating Ideas

Diagonal floor plan for bedroom.  Freshening your bedroom's look could be as simple as shifting to a diagonal floor plan.  Diagonal placement creates wedges of spaces that can be used for a desk or a comfortable reading chair.  One table can sit directly at the side of the bed, and another at the other side but in front if a window.  It creates a balanced and interesting look.  You can place a stack of baskets at the bed's foot, it is handy for storage and serves as a low-end anchor.

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Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Decorate your kitchen with replicas of fruits and vegetables in season so that they can symbolize nature's bounty permanently.  Follow this tips:

• Cabinet doors.  Repaint your cabinet doors with two coating of off-white enamel.  Get vegetable motifs from wallpaper, wrappers, computer print out, or printed fabrics.  Or you can draw whatever you want.  Cut each motif neatly.  Then glue them all over or just along the borders.  Seal with three coatings of lacquer paint or natural color varnish.
•  Wastebasket.  Wastebaskets at home should always be pretty.  But since beautiful wastebaskets at the department stores are very costly, you may make your own wastebasket out of carton or tin-can about to be thrown away.  Paint or cover them with sheets of glued paper; then replicate the design you did on the cabinet doors.  It can double up as flower vase, too.

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Home Accessories

It is true that a home can still function as a place of shelter even without accessories but without it, a home is like food with spice, or life without leisure.  Accessories not only give your home a sense of good taste.  They also reveal the character of the home owner.  One should consider the room color, textures, and balancing of the room lay out. 

Here are some rules in buying accessories shared from architects:

• Motif.  No matter how many, accessories must be one of the one motif.
• Not too big.  Accessories must not be too big.
• Material types.  The material should be limited to two types- crystal and wood.
• Excessive accessories.  Avoid filling a room with variety of each type of accessories like paintings and sculpture.

House Extensions

If you plan to extend the house, you can include the family room, but it's also likely that an existing room can be turned over to less formal living room according to an architect.  If possible choose a room that can be open up to the kitchen.  Or one that is near the outdoor living area or the children's play area in the garden.  A garage, a maid's room, or an old-style bedroom can be transform into a living area by pulling down walls and door to get access to the terrace or patio.

Resource:

        Anonymous, "Little Big Room", Women's Journal, Aug. 09

        Timbol, Zusie, "What Your Home Accessories Reveal",  Mirror Vol. 5 No.10