If you’re living in a small apartment, a small home, or you have small spaces around your home that you want to maximize, this video is just for you.
1. Remove Interior Doors
Now, if you’re not in the market to be knocking down some walls of your home and creating larger spaces, the next best thing is actually just removing some interior doors. If you have closed off rooms around your home and doors leading to living rooms, family rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, that’s going to make your space look and feel smaller. You’re creating small environments around your home, and just by removing those interior doors, you can create some flow, some expansive lines that are going to make your space feel larger. Having your eye see past that point of the door into the larger space of your home is going to create a larger feel. Open concept homes definitely have a larger look and feel to them, even if the square footage is smaller. So this is a little trick that you can do just to create that same feeling. You can also do this in rooms that have closet doors.
Open Concept Closets
If you want to really make your bedroom feel larger, I would suggest removing those closet doors in some cases to create a larger look in your home. You can have beautiful open concept closets. You can also turn that closet space into more livable space. You can create a work nook, a reading nook, or a bar. I recently did this in my family room by removing closet doors, because the room used to be a bedroom, and turned it into more livable space to expand the look of the room and make it look larger.
French Doors
On the other hand, I love interior doors, and if you’re somebody that really loves being able to close off a room like that, I would suggest maybe swapping out the door for a French door or a door that actually allows some light to filter through so that you can create the look of a larger space with light.
2. Use Mobile Furniture
When it comes to furniture, mobile furniture is something you should absolutely think about using. Furniture on wheels that can move from one space to another to really create different purposes wherever it is. Kitchen islands on wheels are a perfect example of this. If you have a small kitchen and you’d love some extra serving space, some countertop space, a mobile island will be incredible for you. Another great thing that you can have in almost every room of your home is a bar cart or a utility cart. These will create more storage space, serving space, and surface space. I like to use these indoors and outdoors, so I actually just got a new bar cart for my outdoor space from Walmart. Walmart is my go-to style destination to find all of the best on-trend affordable pieces for my home.
Bar Carts
I love how easy it is to shop online and get my entire order delivered straight to my door within a few days. They have everything you need to refresh your outdoor space this season and really create an outdoor oasis. I love shopping the Better Homes and Gardens line because they have some really good quality pieces that are always super cute. So I wanted to add an outdoor bar cart to my patio this season to create some extra serving space. I love that this is a mobile cart that can move around my outdoor space easily and hold all of my new outdoor serving essentials. This is going to make hosting this summer season so much more relaxing and easier because everything is ready on this cart.
Beverage Dispensers and Ice Buckets
There’s so much flexibility with this and I can create different stations around our outdoor space. Beverage dispensers are always a must-have item but these ones are especially great because they fill with ice at the bottom. So it keeps your beverage cool for a very long time. So I love these. They’re perfect for hosting. You can fill them with whatever you’d like and it just keeps the party going. Another must-have item is an outdoor ice bucket. So you can fill this bucket with ice and fill it with all your drinks to keep everything cool. It’s a practical piece that also looks cute and I love adding this to a bar cart outside. Serving trays that have presentation and organization in mind are the best.
Serving Trays
So this is such a good find. This small tray has handles, removable compartments, and you can really organize your snacks and food to be super presentable. So I love this for a little s’mores tray or using it for mixed fruit. I like that you can fit it right on that bar cart because it’s a super slim design. So Walmart has everything you need to create an outdoor oasis and relax and entertain this season with a variety of stylish pieces at affordable prices. I highly recommend checking out their outdoor oasis page on walmart.com to find all of the latest products for this summer. You can shop all of these outdoor products using the link down below my description box.
3. Use Tuckable Furniture
Another furniture hack that you should definitely consider when furnishing your home and picking specific pieces for your small space is tuckable furniture. I think you can maximize your living space by getting different stools and chairs and benches that can actually tuck under your necessities. So at a kitchen countertop, maybe consider getting stools that can tuck right underneath instead of sitting off of your countertop because as soon as you get stools that have arms that don’t go underneath your countertop, it’s going to end up taking up more space in your home and it’s going to make your space feel smaller. You can do the same thing with dining benches and dining chairs. Choosing a bench or dining chairs that tuck right underneath the table is really going to allow you to have more flow around your space. You can even do this in your living room or entryway with small stools or benches
that can tuck right underneath a console table or your coffee table. These will still allow you to have those extra pieces around your home without taking up too much space.
4. Decorate Low and High Points
Now a decorating trick that really works to make your small room feel larger is decorating both the low points and the high points of the room. So having your decor span from floor to ceiling is going to make your space look larger. It’s going to make your eye look towards the floor and expand into the ceiling and really create a lot of great balance that’s going to make your space look larger to the eye. So this could be as easy as making sure that you have a rug. So that’s your decor on the floor.
Floor Decor
You can add a basket on the floor. That’s also going to draw your eye down. And at the same time, draw your eye up to something tall, like a tall plant, a pendant light, a tall lamp, maybe a wall sconce, or large art that really takes up a high point of your space. This is going to make your entire space look and feel larger just through decorating. If you have a space that’s really only decorated at a low point, meaning you have a rug, your sofa, and you don’t have anything going on above that line, your space is going to feel really low and small. To make it feel larger, add those things that are at the higher points of your room, and you’re really going to create a larger look in your home.
5. Maximize Natural Light
Brighter spaces tend to look and feel a lot larger, so small spaces that really have a lot of natural light flowing through windows and doors look and feel bigger. So I would definitely recommend never blocking any windows or doors with furniture. I know sometimes it’s hard to figure out a furniture layout that’s going to allow for that, but try and maximize the amount of light coming through the windows and never block them with furniture. So in bedrooms, if your only option is to put a bed under a window, make sure that your headboard does not block that light coming through. Either choose a low profile bed that’s going to sit underneath that window, or choose a bed frame that doesn’t block the light. So definitely don’t choose one of the upholstered headboards or a big heavy solid wood headboard.
Furniture Layout
Choose something that still allows light to filter through to create that larger look. So if you’re looking around at your home and it’s feeling a little bit dark, maybe change up the furniture layout because you might be blocking some light that needs to come into your space.
6. Choose Lighter Materials
Now, if you want to create that light, bright, airy look in a small space, think about the materials that you’re choosing. I would say avoid any leather, velvet, heavy blackout curtains. Choose lighter weight materials for all of your items around your home and you’re going to end up with a larger feel. So go for linens and sheers and light filtering fabrics that are going to make your space look and feel brighter. I would say go lighter in material for your bed, your sofa, your main chairs, and you can choose those heavier fabrics for accent pieces like stools, benches, dining chairs, or ottomans.
7. Use One Paint Color
I find that small apartments and small homes that have one continuous paint color throughout look larger. I think when you choose different colors for every single space, it starts to break your home up into smaller areas and it doesn’t create this long, expansive look throughout. So if you want to make your entire home feel larger as a whole, I would say choose one paint color and work it throughout the entire home. I recommend doing this if you’re trying to sell your home and really make it look larger than it is. Go with that one paint color and bring it from the front door to the back and work it through every space.
8. Maximize Vertical Space
Now, when you’re decorating, organizing, and furnishing a small space, you need to be intentional about how much floor space you’re taking up. And I think you can actually maximize your floor space by mounting as much as you can up on the walls. Your vertical space is what you probably have a lot of. And if you really take advantage of your vertical space and use it for organization, storage, and decor, it will work wonders and you’ll clear up room around your home. Same thing goes for mounting TVs. A mounted TV definitely makes a room look larger than a TV sitting on a furniture unit. So I would say mount as much as you can. Guitars, lighting, mirrors, shelves, hooks, rods, any kind of storage organization or decor that you can bring up onto the wall is going to make your entire space feel so much larger.
9. Mix in Large Items
I think one misconception about small spaces is that they need small items, small furniture, small decor, small storage. But I actually think they need to mix in large oversized items that really create that balance in a space. I think when you bring in a large item into a small space, it makes it feel like it can handle that large piece. So this could be as small as a vase with oversized stems that really span a space and make it look larger. A tall tree in the corner, a large lamp, a large piece of art is really going to make that small space look larger.
10. Create Larger Pathways
And lastly, think about the pathways around your home. Your home should be very easy to navigate around. You shouldn’t have to push anything out of the way or squeeze between items because that’s a sign that you either have too many things in your small space or something is not the right size.
Furniture Orientation
You can fix this by changing the orientation of your furniture, creating larger pathways around your space to really clear up the walking space. You should have around two and a half, three feet to walk between all the items around your home. So if it’s anything smaller than that, it’s going to be a squeeze and it’s going to be hard to navigate. Really creating a calm flow throughout your home is going to absolutely help create a larger feel in your home.
Let us know down below in the comments, which one of these decorating hacks do you think you could really use in your home.