You can’t walk around in a small apartment. Each thing takes its place and does not tolerate new guests. What if you want to expand the space and add new things? There are many tricks to making a small apartment bigger, and not just visually. Our consultant: designer-architect of “Architectural group 888”, participant of the “School of Repair” program at TNT Daria Kunavina.
14 September 2014
Mezzanineembedded in the walls in the hallway eat up your ceiling. Most often, they serve to store unnecessary things. Throw away the truly unnecessary things, eliminate the mezzanines and start living under a new high ceiling.
Interior doors can weigh down the space if they are thick and dark. Do you want light? Let him into the house by hanging translucent doors with an abundance of glass inserts.
Потолок appears to be lower if covered with panels. When making repairs, give preference to modern – tensioning technologies. Just choose not glossy, but matte texture. Such a ceiling will level any surface and make it deep and endless.
Pastel colors – mint, powdery, pale pink, blue and caramel in wallpaper, interior details and furniture will help make the room weightless and wide.
Flat light instead of a large hanging chandelier, it will visually make your ceiling higher than it really is. If you are not used to this kind of lighting, complement the center light with a track system with swivel lights around the perimeter of the room.
Bright sofa juicy green or red color will make even a completely white room sparkle with new colors.
Glass furniture, furniture with frosted glass inserts will be an excellent alternative to oversized wooden tables, heavy pedestals.
Bright poufs convertible top and storage space will replace the annoying chest of drawers and become multifunctional chests for small items.
Vacuum bags with valves for evacuating air, will help to neatly place even the largest wardrobe in a small closet.
Cupboard matching the walls from floor to ceiling will not cut the room into squares, but will organically look like part of the wall.
- To make the apartment appear larger, fill it with light. Refuse wallpaper with large damasks, dark curtains with large flowers, huge sofas. Large things and drawings decorate a room only if it is large. In small cars, the pattern is acceptable, but small.
- It is impossible to decorate the ceiling with stucco and crystal chandeliers on long chains, even if you really want to. Stucco molding and other royal decor, again, only for high ceilings and large rooms. In a small apartment, they will look overwhelming and focus on the area.
- Floor-length carpets not only do not decorate the interior, but also make the room smaller. Judge for yourself – one of your walls is occupied by a red or maroon canvas. She absorbs light in an already small room.
- Dark furniture like Romanian walls is of little use, but collects dust and takes up a good half of the room. Part with her. Give preference to built-in wardrobes and furniture on casters that can be moved at any time to create the most mobile space.