35 Great Design Ideas to make Small Rooms Look Bigger
There are many interesting design details which can help you make a small place look bigger. Some of the most important tips and tricks are to use as much as possible color techniques and furniture arranging, but also certain design concepts that fool the eye and make the interiors look much bigger and spacious than they really are in reality.
Choosing pastels, or maybe using dark colors in combination with pastels and creating a special visual effect, simple lines and practical furniture, with no adornments and crowded details, are a few principles on how to make a room appear bigger than it is. Don’t forget that in a small space, everything counts. So, let’s take a closer look to the following pictures and admire these great interior design ideas that will help you create an idea about how to decorate the small spaces from your home.
The warm color of the walls, the simple and practical aspect of the furniture – this is a children’s room, with two stacked beds, embedded into a wooden frame with shelves for toys and books, with drawers for clothes – together with a large luminous window transform a small room into a perfect bedroom for two children.
Based on the same principle of sharing, this small bedroom can be shared by two children if it is designed with minimal furniture. Look at this one, with two beds placed head in head, one for a boy and other for a girl. They look beautiful together! The bedroom is nested in the attic and the walls are painted in white, respecting the need for space. There aren’t too many details except for a brown carpet but the room looks luminous, clean and comfortable.
You may enlarge the space in a children’s room by placing up the bed and filling the remaining space under the bed with the office desk for the child’s studies. You can put into advantage the lack of space in this way and the rest of the room can be used for playing activities. Of course, you should try to use pastels and explore natural light coming from the window .
A maximum use of every corner applies within this bedroom with the bed embedded in a strong blue wall, contrasting the whiteness of the room. White furniture and a generous window allowing natural light to flood the small apartment transform it into a generous space .
Even within a small attic you can arrange a nice and cozy bedroom by painting the walls in white, using a white bed embodied into a wall, minimal furniture and no carpet on the white floors, everything garnished with a window which brings natural light inside. Isn’t it intimate?
A small bedroom with white walls looks larger if you use white furniture and you turn to profit every corner of the room. Using a mirror, especially when it is placed in front of the window, can be a plus in adding space.
Another detail in enhancing space into a small room is that of the wall paper applied to a single wall, contrasting with the others. Not to mention the large windows with the light coming directly inside, without being filtered through the curtains! The space has no useless objects and it is full of good taste.
We are still in the white walls register admiring this matrimonial bedroom which enjoys a dreaming atmosphere, natural light and simple furniture. In fact, the bed is the essential piece of furniture in the room. White and comfortable, it allows you to dream without being suffocated by other useless furniture. Only a small white commode stands by the bed, supporting flowers, inducing romanticism and elegance.
The idea of exploring every corner of the room, making it useful creates a larger space within this intimate bedroom. The most interesting aspect here is the suspended space for a small bed and books, a rack for clothes under it, everything tied up with the generous window which floods the small space in natural light, enlightening. There are flowers and plants everywhere, a cheerful striped carpet, the room looking bigger that it is.
An attic enjoying a large window, flooded in natural light, with a small bed and a cheerful carpet, among white luminous walls, minimal drawers and shelves for books and clothes, not only that provides the necessary space for a teenager to feel comfortable, but it also offers space for a hobby like painting .
As we have already mentioned, a space can look bigger by concentrating on walls. This interior accommodates different painted walls: a violet one opposing to a paper wall with leaves on a white background, everything sheltering in its middle the violet bed, the unique piece of furniture that matters in the room. This creates a romantic atmosphere.
Look at this splendid bedroom with a matrimonial white and black bed, providing elegance to the entire inner space! The wardrobe occupies the entire wall from floor to ceiling and uses mirrors on its doors, reflecting natural light coming from the generous window and making the room appear larger, elegant and refined.
This is a very small space designed to be a bedroom! The bed is embodied in a wall, the wooden floors allow a fluffy light blue carpet with irregular shape and this is all you can see here. But you feel cozy and you have all the comfort you need.
This is a more sophisticated bedroom with white walls and a large window with ample long draperies, filtering natural light and offering the illusion of space. The TV set is hanged on a wall, offering enough space for a small office desk under it. The bookshelves are placed directly on the walls, dressing them up and the atmosphere is a blend of elegance and coziness.
When a whole glass wall floods the inner space in natural light the space looks definitely bigger! Look at this bedroom! The bed is placed on an upper floor, by the window. The walls are simple, unadorned and one of them is contrastingly painted in light ecru, defining a profile and providing sobriety and personality.
This original room accommodates a black and white clothed bed, a small fluffy black carpet on the floor, a small office desk and a comfortable black leather chair. But what is really interesting is the wall from the bed head, painted in perspective, offering the image in black and white of a huge metallic bridge, making the room appear long and spacious. This is definitely wearing a man’s personality.
Dressing up one wall into a wall paper is giving perspective to the room. The contrast between the red warm color of this wall paper and the peace imprinted by the whiteness of the other walls makes the space appear larger, the window inducing plenty of natural light from outside.
White offers space and perspective to the inner space, no doubt! And combining the whiteness of the walls with white and practical aspect of the furniture you’ll obtain the image of a large and elegant room in spite of the limited space. The stacked beds and the wooden cubes used in a simple manner as shelves and drawers enhance the larger aspect of the room.
If you want to arrange a single bedroom you may use the same principle of painting a wall in a dark color – dark grey in our picture - use a simple bed with a lot of drawers, place the bookshelves on the wall, over the bed, the wardrobe along a wall, from tip to toe and you’ll have a lot of space for a small desk and a computer.
The same principles of enhancing the space are used in this picture, with the bed embodied on a wall papered wall, transparent doors of the wardrobe, large window allowing natural light to come inside. The white room offers perspective.
