How can you make smaller rooms feel larger? Some designers shared their ideas:
- Painting a room in a darker, cool-toned matte can make it feel like the walls are receding.
- Floor-to-ceiling built-ins reduce visual clutter and create a more open, streamlined look.
- Painting the ceiling the same color as the walls draws your eyes up and creates the illusion of higher ceilings.
- A small-scale, simple wallpaper motif can make a room feel larger.
- Large scale furniture and rugs are associated with larger spaces and can 'trick' the eye to make a small space feel larger.
- Breathing room around the perimeter of furnishings, and being able to completely walk around them, will make the space feel roomier.
Check out the full Wall Street Journal article here.
