So there is a wish to live in the big apartment or the house, but for various reasons to buy the big apartment it turns out not at all. Nevertheless, quite really to increase space of rooms at least visually. Correctly picked up general color palette, color of wall-paper, competently mounted lighting will help with it.
1. Dot lamps on stretch glossy ceiling will help to increase the room in height. The same effect can achieve by means of the two-story plasterboard design built on ceiling in which deepening is painted in color more dark, than other ceiling.
2. It is visually possible to make more than height of the living room, having slightly lowered ceiling in other rooms. So at guests who have come into the hall from the hall impression of bigger space will be made. Illusion of infinity can be created, having mounted on mirror ceiling.
3. In solution of the problem of increase in space the important role belongs to color. In small rooms it is recommended to use light tone – beige, gentle-lime, light blue, light pink. It is necessary to avoid dark heavy gamma, the shouting flowers, bright contrasts.
4. If for finishing of walls wall-paper is chosen, it is necessary to consider effect of refraction which arises at combination of flowers and drawings: - considerably the large drawing put on wall-paper will narrow space; - the vertical strip applied on monophonic wall-paper will make the room higher; - the multi-colored wall-paper separated by border will reduce the room; - wall-paper having the small drawing, or light monophonic wall-paper will increase the small room; - it is possible to recover the dark room having pasted over with wall-paper of the same color the least lit wall, but tone is lighter.
5. It is also possible to increase the small room at the expense of floor. Longitudinal the directions of floor boards are visually increased by space. The light glossy tile considerably will expand kitchen. Light which is reflected in it will fill kitchen with air and will make it easier, bright. You should not stack the carpet covering all floor on light parquet, replace it with rug of gentle color.
6. You do not seek to allocate furniture from the general interior. It will be better in this case if it kind of merges with curtains and walls. Has to be modest and furniture form, sofa it is desirable to choose without armrests, and in general it is better to replace chairs with convenient padded stools.