How to visually expand a narrow room?

Expand the narrow room can be quite simple means without resorting to construction work. What to do if you got a room of imperfect proportions? Taken for their "correction" is necessary at the stage of repair and decoration.

  • Visually expand the narrow room will help elements that direct the view "across" the space. Floor covering with pronounced stripes, for example, laminate or linoleum with a pattern, is better to direct along a short wall or at an angle. Placed along the long wall, such coatings further narrow the room. Another option is to use a monochromatic coating, for example, carpet, linoleum without a pattern, cork.

  • Covering the walls will also help. expand narrow room. Feel free to use a horizontal strip on the end surfaces. Wide stripes and skillfully selected colors will help enhance the effect of expansion.

  • Alternatively, try to paint short walls in bright, rich colors, and long ones - in neutral ones, or use wallpaper on them with an inconspicuous pattern. This technique will help to "squeeze" the room in the right direction, it will become more "square."

  • Ceiling beams parallel to the short sides of the room will also help to perceive it differently, visually expand the narrow room. They can be purely decorative, made of drywall. Such a solution is very appropriate in today's popular Mediterranean style of home decoration.

  • Try to drop the standard rectangular space. For example, a non-standard suspended ceiling can change the appearance and expand narrow room. Painting the walls not with planes, but with curly elements will support this effect. But such complex design options are best left to professional designers.

If you do not plan to repair, but visually expand the narrow room I want to, you can use simple and affordable techniques for everyone.

  • If possible, remove furniture from long walls, do not be afraid to put the elements of the furniture across, for example, a closet at the end of a short wall or place furniture against a wall with a window - you can put a desk, it is functionally convenient and allows visually expand the narrow room.

  • Divide the total volume into functional zones using a rack open on both sides and placed perpendicular to the long wall - this technique will allow you to shatter the space and correct unfavorable proportions.

  • Play with light. From the standard chandelier in the center of the ceiling is better to refuse. Expand the narrow room spotlights located in the center of the ceiling will help if their light is directed to the walls.

  • Hang a picture, a spectacular poster or a large decorative element (for example, a clock with a large dial) on the end wall, this will attract attention, the other walls should be in neutral colors.

Watch the video: How to Make a Small Room Look Bigger (March 2024).

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