Decorating Small Rooms

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Decorating small rooms can be difficult. What do you do when your stuff overpowers your space? First of all take all the items out of your room that you don’t use every day. Use that as the basic rule when sorting through your things. Put the items that you don’t use every day in the garage or attic.

As time passes, only dig out the items that you miss because you need them for a specific task. After about three months you won’t even miss the rest of the items in storage and you will be emotionally ready to give them away or have a yard sale.

Then you can really begin to start tackling the feat of decorating small rooms. You must have adequate storage to start the process of decorating. Each and every item must have its own special space otherwise supplies and accessories will end up out of place and you'll end up frustrated!

1. Make the best use of natural light by keeping window coverings sheer or better yet use none at all. Light gives the impression of open space. If your budget allows, add sky lights.

2. Use a large mirror or collage of small mirrors across from a window to reflect light and make the room appear larger.

3. When decorating small rooms choose pieces of furniture for their ability for storage, mobility and conversion. A bed with built in drawers underneath or a dining room table with folding ends are some good examples.

4. Use paint color combinations that refract a lot of light. They don’t have to be pastel colors, you can use a deep yellow or a rich cream. Just don’t use dark blues, purples or reds. They soak up too much light.

5. When choosing paint colors allow the colors to blend from room to room. The flow from one room to the next is very important. A stark color change makes the room separate, but using the same type of flooring wall color and trim allows the flow to easily continue from one room to the next.

6. Of course you will need to define spaces for different purposes. Do this by swapping a solid door for one with a view such as French doors. This works well when transitioning from a bedroom

7. Consider building an open shelf about a foot below the ceiling all around the room. Its a great storage solution for books and decorative items and draws the eye up.

8. Make sure your furniture is the proper scale for the room. Big and bulky doesn’t work here. Use pieces that have skinny legs or glass. Your eye passes through them easily and gives the impression of more space.

9. If possible, use a light in front of a mirror. The mirror reflects the light and makes it go farther.

10. Paint vertical stripes on the walls or even the cabinets to make decorating small rooms simple. Stripes make the room feel taller and more open.

By now I’m sure ideas are just popping into your head! Small spaces aren’t so difficult to decorate after all right? Decorating small rooms can even be better than decorating large rooms. After all, there’s less to decorate and definitely less to clean!

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