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Furniture in tiny spaces should be versatile, and the vertical tripse on the wallpaper will help to visually lengthen the area. Light colours and shiny surfaces also help to visually extend space. However, don't you already know that? You don't have to be a professional interior designer to give white walls, mirrors, and minimalism to small apartments. What alternative methods work well for small footage?
Blurred borders
Trick your brain: "flood" the walls and ceiling with one colour, visually blurring the borders.
Our eyes are trained to attach to surfaces with distinct colour separations. It is more challenging to estimate the room's actual size when there is no distinction between the walls and ceiling.
The conventional rule that only light walls are appropriate for tiny spaces can be safely ignored. Any shade can create the illusion of eternity and help a small space feel larger.
You can go another way: do not blur the existing boundaries, and establish new ones, painting all the walls in the room in different colours or using colour blocks - this will break the integrity of perception, and the room will seem larger than it really is.
Single flooring
Keep in mind the floor beneath your feet. Additionally, a single floor covering that "flows" from room to room can assist blur divisions and raise the perception that the apartment is not as small as it seems.
Why separate different floor coverings in the rooms? You can choose one practical floor for the whole apartment, do without thresholds, and do not worry about joints between different floor coverings.
Broken settings
If the room is small, then the furniture should be small, and the less furniture in the room - the better. Or is that not true? In fact, with this approach, a small apartment can seem very modest. It is not necessary to place in small rooms entire museum exhibits of furniture, but also to make the space completely empty is not necessary.
Use everything that is practical for everyday use, does not obstruct the use of the space, and is not overly cluttered when it comes to the number of furniture and lighting in the area.
It's not always preferable for the visual area to have the barest minimum of items. For instance, a coffee table or floor light may appear extravagant in a small living area, but they actually work as a psychological ruse. The brain will process the information as follows: if there is enough space in this room for all of this stuff, then the room is not small.
To avoid making the room appear smaller, try not to arrange the furniture merely along the walls. The secret to hiding the room's true size is to create an accent in the centre of the space.
If you're afraid of cluttering up the room, choose furniture with legs instead of furniture with a solid base - it's a time-tested way to visually unclutter the room.
Circular designing
Taking new paths around the flat is an interesting technique to trick yourself. There is a circular design when you enter a room one way and exit another. Such deception will undoubtedly perplex your mind, leading you to assume that the flat contains a location where you can "go around".
Moving up
Designers use this technique to visually elevate ceilings. The point is to make us look up, so the room will seem visually larger.
The effect will be strengthened by interior doors of increased height or another deception - doors with a false transom.
None of these methods can change the apartment's actual size, but here a philosophical challenge arises: Which is reality—the square meters that are provided to us or how we see them? A skilled designer can influence our emotions in a positive way.
Author: Helen Wilson
Helen Wilson is a professional content writer. Her main spheres of specialization are Health, Productivity, and Self-development. She also provides a list of sample topics for narrative essays for the writing company.
