How to Make Your Room Look Bigger

Do you have a tiny room? Is there just enough space for your bed, nightstand/bureau, desk and maybe a chair? Here's a great way to enlarge the space and make it more functional:

Steps

1. Rearrange furniture. Push a twin bed against the wall. Stand pillows against the wall to use as a couch during the day. Headboards and footboards are not always necessary. It is helpful to buy a loft bed to open up the room.
2. Be multi-functional. Place your bureau next to the bed and use it as a nightstand. Use a kitchen chair as a nightstand. Hang your clothes, coat or purse on the back of the chair.
3. Replace furniture.
   • Attach a small shelf, on the wall next to the bed, to use as a nightstand. Use a wall lamp rather than a table lamp.
   • Store tissue and an alarm clock in a small purse hung on a hook next to the bed. A nightstand may not be needed.
   • Attach a folding shelf, beneath a window, to use as a desk or ironing board. Place a towel over the board before ironing.
   • Use a stool instead of a chair. Store the stool in your closet when it's not in use.
   • Sit on the floor, use a floor cushion or study on the bed.
   • Find and use smaller pieces of furniture, such as a smaller bed.
4. Add storage area. Clear the clutter. Keep only what you use.
   
   • Add shelves or hooks in the closet. Place small items in baskets or boxes on the shelves. A bureau may not be needed.
   • Add a hook to the back of your door for your coat and purse.
   • Elevate your bed. Use cardboard storage boxes beneath the bed. Add a bedskirt to cover everything.
5. Add light and spaciousness.
   
   • Use light, pastel colors on the walls.
   • Hang a mirror so that it faces a bright window.
   • Use a maximum of two pictures throughout the room.
   • Use a valance curtain to keep an open view of the outdoors.
   • Try mini blinds to alter the intensity of light.
6. Maintain your room. Make your bed and clean your room every day. Keep everything put in the right place.
7. Buy a filing cabinet to hold loose papers and file important papers.
8. ry adding some mirrors. That will give an illusion of a bigger room that looks like it`ll go on and on. Make sure the mirrors have thick glass, that way, they`ll help reflect more light in the room.

Tips

• Read about feng-shui.
• Use a laptop rather than a desktop computer.
• Use mirrors. Mirrors can easily create the illusion of depth, especially if they're placed behind something. Rather than having a blatant mirror in the room, put it behind a fish tank, or somewhere where it reflects a focal point of the room to somewhat create the illusion of depth.
• Make sure to not add so many things to the walls, they can overwhelm and make the room looked cluttered.

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