Unfortunately, almost every average person can only dream of owning a large apartment with spacious enough rooms where you can create a cozy and comfortable environment.
Not everyone has the opportunity to purchase a similar option or get it, for example, by inheritance. Therefore, the owners of small apartments, often and seriously, think about possible options for visual or physical increase in the space of rooms.
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Options for increasing the space, visual and physical, obtained during the reconstruction of the premises
First of all, the solution to increase the useful space associated with the scrap of interior walls comes to mind. But, if you think it over carefully, you can find a more practical solution to this problem, requiring less financial investment and physical costs. Experienced designers have long found the original options, allowing you to get the effect of visual increase in a small space.
Basically, such options are based on deception, that is, on creating optical illusions. Skillful use of such ideas is sometimes quite effective.
Variants of illusions can be based on the following:
- on color harmony and shades
- on a light game
- on the correct arrangement of reflecting surfaces and mirrors in particular
- on the selection of the right wallpaper
- using a photo-wallpaper
- competent selection of material for curtains and their design
Visually increase the room space will help the wallpaper. This is one of the most affordable solutions.
But when it is translated into reality, it is worth considering some of the canons:
- wallpaper should not have large volume drawings or ornaments (experts have proved that the presence of small fragments in a small room makes it possible to significantly increase the perceived volume of space)
- optimize this effect can also properly selected curtains
- wallpaper with stripes positioned vertically will give an effect allowing to visually increase the height
- there is a sense in the combination of wallpaper of two shades (the upper part of the wall is glued in a lighter tone, and the lower one is darker)
- visual expansion of the space can be achieved by pasting wallpaper with light or cold shades (recommendation: with this version of pasting, the wallpaper must necessarily be monophonic, and also do not resort to gluing horizontal edges)
The maximum expansion can be obtained not only with wallpaper, apart from them it is worth paying special attention to furniture for a small apartment - it should be extremely simple, but at the same time multifunctional.
In a room with a small area there should be nothing superfluous: a sofa in the daytime should be in the folded state, use it as a sleeping place, that is, in the unfolded form, should only be in the dark.
Storage of second-hand items must be done only in cabinets or cabinets specially designed for this purpose.
How to increase the room with the help of competent use of wallpaper and wallpaper
Visual increase in the height of the room can be achieved with the help of wallpapering the wallpaper with a picture vertically placed, it is the pattern that will give the impression of more elongated walls; this effect will increase the room space.
For visual correction of a long and narrow room, the combined use of wallpaper of different types is suitable, high walls are pasted with light wallpaper, which allows to expand space between them.
With a low height of the walls, they are visually approximated with the following option: one of the room walls is made darker than the others; for example, a positive result due to a contrast combination - one of the walls is pasted with wallpaper with a small ornament or pattern, and the opposite - wallpaper or wallpaper with a three-dimensional ornament or pattern.
Narrow and dark space can be adjusted by combined pasting, but more light wallpaper should be mounted on the wall that receives the least amount of sunlight.
Visually increase the space of the room can properly selected wallpapers. It is desirable that the image on them was promising: a remote horizon, a path leading off into the distance, a reservoir or something similar. The picture on the photo-wallpaper should be with the image of a remote view. Only in this case will work with the expansion of the space.
Photo wallpapers with large and large images of objects will create the effect of something enticing and unlimited, for example, increased in several times plants or corals, a raging sea storm, huge lightning, this approach, in addition to visual expansion of a small room, makes it more modern and unique.
When sticking photo-wallpaper, you should follow certain rules:
- a picture with a perspective image should be mounted on a blank wall
- do not install near the wall with such an image of high furniture, only if necessary you can put a small table, sofa or something like that
- in very small rooms, only photo-wallpapers made in light colors
- at a low ceiling, the image on a picture should be with vertical fragments
- when enough light enters the room, wallpaper can have saturated colors
- in rooms with insufficient amount of daylight, it is better to use pictures with a predominance of pastel tones
And more about what effects can be created with the help of photo wallpapers:
Properly choose curtains
Zoom visually the apartment can be and with the help of impeccably selected curtains. They should be in light colors.
Tulle, selected for them, should not be dark or made of dense fabric.
Experienced decorators say that if you hang long curtains and add them to the accordion, you can get a visual extension of the small room.
Colors visually increasing the space
The color solution when choosing curtains is not unimportant. In a small room, the most appropriate are light and warm shades. But, here it is important to choose such shades that will be close to the color palette used on the wallpaper.
Do not choose your choice of curtains of dark or contrasting colors. Also in a small room, there is no sense in using anything from the fragments of the decor with the presence of large or voluminous drawings or ornaments.
Ideally, curtains or curtains from light, airy fabrics in a warm pastel palette will look. When the effect of expansion is achieved, it is necessary to avoid curtains, whose structures are multilayered or there are a lot of bows, lambrequins, ruches, and curtains that look very massive and heavy.
To date, fashion is curtains with a length slightly higher than the height of the ceiling. This fact is very conducive to the feeling of a higher room.
Not a bad option, when the curtains choose a fabric with a vertical strip. From this, the room also gets taller. But this situation has another side: in place with increasing altitude, its width is lost.
On the role of curtains in the interior of a small room:
Psychologists have long proven that color perception has a striking effect on a person's psychological state. In addition, color also affects the perception of space.
The most successful reception if you want to expand the space of the room is to make it in light and soft pastel colors. Also positively affect the option of decorating walls and ceiling in the same shade. If desired, the ceiling can be made a few tones lighter than the walls. From this it will become more pronounced and high.
Design of a small apartment
The best design for increasing such space is to paint the floor in the same color as the basic decorative fragments. For painting walls it is necessary to use a more peaceful shade.
You can use another technique, visually pushing the walls. To do this, you will need to paint walls and shelves in one shade. Curtains, also, it is better to choose in tone to the color of the walls. Due to the fact that all the fragments merge in color, the space will become more airy and spacious.
If the height of the ceilings leaves much to be desired, then its coloring should be made in light, and ideally, in white. If you wish and certain possibilities, the ceiling can be made hanging, stretching or gluing with wallpapers of the same white color.
Significantly, you can move the room up and to the sides, if you paint the floor in a dark color, and make the ceiling and walls light.
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