| Decorating a small room is one of the biggest | | | | 4.Use large scale items in a small room. Now, |
| challenges many families have in their homes | | | | traditional rules about scale in a room would lead |
| today. Making a small room work for your loved | | | | you to believe a small room needs small scale |
| ones can be frustrating and confusing. Here are | | | | furniture, but the opposite is true. Using just a |
| some great low budget ways to simply transform | | | | few larger scale pieces reduces clutter and gives |
| your small rooms no matter what your budget! | | | | the eye a smoother trip across the room. The |
| 1. First of all, determine if making your room look | | | | same goes for artwork! If you are trying to |
| larger is really the way to go. After all, what's so | | | | make a room look larger, go for one large print |
| great about large rooms? Maybe you want your | | | | on the wall, or hang a decorative rug, instead of |
| living room to be comforting, and to wrap people | | | | small collections. |
| with warmth when they enter. Or your bath to | | | | 5.A simple tip to make rooms look larger? Keep |
| be charming, filled with personality everywhere | | | | your windows and slick surfaces sparkling clean! |
| you look! So don't be so quick to assume bigger is | | | | Believe it or not, the reflection of clean will make |
| always better...you might just be creating a | | | | a room look brighter, fresher and larger. Try it! |
| problem where there is none! | | | | 6.Paint just one focal wall a rich deep color to add |
| 2.Make the most of a small room you wish to | | | | depth to your room. Leave the other walls either |
| make cozy by using warm rich colors. Drape the | | | | white, or a much paler version of your accent wall |
| windows with fabric, and add throw blankets and | | | | and those walls will appear to fall away. Also keep |
| pillows to cozy up with. You can buy inexpensive | | | | in mind that cooler colors such as greens and |
| muslin and twist and swag it over a curtain rod | | | | blues tend to recede from the eye, while warmer |
| for a casual but stunning frame to your windows. | | | | colors such as reds and yellows seem to close in |
| Buy flat sheets and sew up pillow covers, and | | | | a room. |
| make throws from fleece fabric from the craft | | | | 7.Finally, remember to use as many double duty |
| store. Make your room cozy deliberately, and its | | | | items in the room as possible to reduce clutter. A |
| special style will show through, not the size of the | | | | chest of drawers can hold a tv, and store all your |
| room. | | | | magazines and games, a futon sofa can double as |
| 3. Reduce the clutter in a small room! This is the | | | | a guest room, and a pine chest makes a great |
| #1 problem within small spaces, and also the | | | | coffee table, while storing extra linens! |
| fastest to fix. Take a box and remove all clutter | | | | Remember, it's not the size of the room, it's the |
| from the room. Move out accessories, pillows, | | | | size of the heart who creates the room. Let |
| everything! Now bring things back one at a time, | | | | yours show through with personality and |
| and stop when it's perfect. The key here is | | | | creativity, not cash! |
| restraint! | | | | |