Visually enlarge rooms

1. Find storage space: where is there potential to create more storage space?
   Small rooms have little floor space. To avoid covering the floor with furniture, tall shelving units that extend up to the ceiling provide plenty of storage space and even visually stretch a room upwards. Wall shelves, hanging plants or a wall-mounted TV instead of a TV on a stand also help to clear space and enhance the room.
2. Clever use of colour: Multiple colours between furniture, floor and wall add bulk and soon compress the look of a room. A uniform colour scheme, on the other hand, makes a room appear more spacious. Lighter colours such as white, light grey, beige or pastel shades are ideal. Dark colours can make a space feel cosy, but in small rooms they quickly seem oppressive and overbearing.
3. Light makes everything seem bigger
   Corner lighting not only makes the room feel cosy; a brightly lit room always looks larger than a darker one. Small floor lamps or delicate pendant lights are a simple, practical way of making a room feel larger
4. Mirror, mirror on the wall
   A mirror acts like a window and makes the room appear to go on almost endlessly. This trick is quickly realised and, as well as looking good, it is also practical
5. The right mural can make a room feel more cosy, more elegant, calmer or even larger. Before choosing a photomural, therefore, you should think about the room size. For small rooms, we generally recommend simple motifs and light, subtle colours. Cool shades such as blue or turquoise also make rooms look larger. White and beige murals with cloud motifs or nature scenes appear light and airy and therefore create a pleasant, uncluttered atmosphere. A harmonious composition of light-coloured furniture and a subtly patterned photomural in blue-grey, for example, sets the tone without being imposing.

With a few simple furnishing hacks, you can then turn any room, no matter how small, into a real eye-catcher that invites you to linger without seeming oppressive.