Visually raise the ceiling
There are effective methods by which you can visually create the illusion of a high ceiling. Different approaches are used for this.
- If the ceiling has a glossy surface, then visually it will look taller. Therefore, if your house has low ceilings, then paint it with glossy paint. You can make a glossy stretch ceiling instead of painting, in which built-in point lights are installed. Large chandeliers in a room with low ceilings eat up space.
- A multi-level gypsum plasterboard ceiling structure also visually "lifts" the ceiling. In this design, the grooves need to be made darker than the other parts of the ceiling. Gypsum board construction will create a visual illusion of a high ceiling.
- To visually increase the ceiling height in the living room, the ceilings in the neighboring rooms (in the kitchen and hallway) should be made a bit lower. Then looking into the living room from the hallway, the impression of a height of space and a larger volume will be created.
- The most safe and radical method of increasing the height of the room is to cover the ceiling with a mirror surface. Thanks to this option, an illusion is created that the ceiling goes up.
Color Effect
The problems of limited space can be effectively solved by using different colors. In small rooms designers recommend the use of light colors. For example, light pink tones, beige, pale lime, soft blue tones. In a word, for a small room, any pastel palette is suitable, the main thing is that it does not irritate the eye. If you want to use bright contrasts, screaming colors / or heavy dark colors in a small room, then you need to be extremely careful.
Different colors can achieve different visual sensations. For example, it is known that the blue color visually removes objects a little. Then the kakorange color, on the contrary, visually approximates objects, in fact, any other warm tones. If you want to create the impression of a large space, while not losing the feeling of comfort, then you stand up for warm and bright colors. For the same purpose, designers do not recommend using large drawings for walls.
If there are wallpapers on the walls, then you need to know how to properly combine their various patterns of flowers:
- Wallpapers of different colors, divided by a border, make the room already smaller.
- If there is a large picture on the wallpaper, this will significantly narrow the space.
- If the wallpaper is solid with a vertical strip, then they visually make the room higher and narrower. This effect is created with a monochrome wallpaper with a vertical pattern.
- Multicolored wallpaper, as well as if there is a curb along the top edge, the room will appear smaller and the height will be lower.
- If on one wall there are wallpapers with a large pattern, and on other walls wallpaper with a smaller picture, then the room will visually expand.
- Single-color light wallpaper or with a small pattern can visually enlarge a small room.
- If you want to revive a dark room, then use the following advice: on a less lit wall, apply wallpaper of the same color as the wallpaper on the other walls, but only on the lighter tone.
Spaces are Uprikala
A proven method of expanding any room is the use of mirrors on the walls. If you use this technique, you can achieve the desired effect, but special care is required. You can of course trim one wall of the room with large mirror sheets. However, it is worth considering that then the room will be more like a dance hall, only without a ballet. That's why, if you want to use mirrors in the decor of the room, then for the beginning, invite the designer and consult with him regarding your decision to use mirrors. The designer will tell you how best to arrange a mirror wall, moreover, he will tell you how to soften it with a cloth to create a sense of transition to another room. But in this case you will have to get used to the fact that your guests will always look in the mirror at their reflections, thus distracting themselves.
By the way, "push" the wall can be another way - you can use a false niche. Doing it with this is not necessarily deep. The depth of the deepest niche is enlarged by means of a backlight, which is directed to the wall located along the contour. Such a reception will give a niche a certain amount, visually increasing the space of the room itself.
Let's do the floor
Due to the floor, you can also increase the space of a small room. Here, the same laws and rules are used, as for walls: the bright sex visually increases space, and the dark floor reduces the space. If the parquet or floorboards are placed longitudinally, this will visually extend the room. To expand the kitchen, you can use glossy plitkuvvetlyh tones. The light that will reflect in it, fill the kitchen with air will make it brighter and easier, due to which it seems visually that it is larger.
If the parquet is light and lacquered, then a massive carpet covering the entire floor area is not recommended. In this case, designers are advised to lay a small mat, preferably a gentle shade. The combination of the light-colored floor, ceiling and walls visually increase the room. And in order to add space to the space, the floor can be illuminated, for this purpose the bottom illumination is used.