5 Tips for Making Your Home Appear Larger

Whether your house is big or small, adopting innovative space-saving furniture and design layout can ensure your living space to be less cluttered and cramped. Space optimisation is, therefore, a design layout for most apartments these days.

Follow these tips and you can save time having to tidy up your space.

1. Utilise the wall for more storage mileage

The wall is one of the largest surface areas other than the floor in a house. Add shelves on the wall to place your favourite books or photo frames. Evenly space out these shelves to present a spacious outlook to space. It is a useful addition in study room where space is restricting. Attach your television onto the wall to save some land space for other furniture.

2.Make your home brighter

A simple trick to making your space look larger is to allow natural light into your living room. Maximise the height of the space and provide ample opportunity for daylight to penetrate into your room. The combination of high ceiling and a translucent curtain that allows natural light helps to transform the room to look larger than it actually is.

3. Play the mirror “trick”

Walk into a room with a large mirror and you might be in for a visual trick. Mirror plays a dual role of reflecting the light throughout the home while appear to double the visual space. In rooms where there are only small corner windows, a framed mirror instantly brightens the room and makes it visually larger.

4. Go for modular furniture system

Having the flexibility to make changes in space use is an effective way to maximise your living space. Tote boxes are useful as a form of the vertical storage system. Their wide array of colours can add personality to your space. Modular furniture system allows you to arrange its composition based on the layout of your room. It can be adjusted to fit a corner or combine across furniture piece.

5. Customise your “transformer” furnishing A standard wardrobe often comes with hinged doors. This requires additional space. Sliding doors optimise this space and are convenient to handle. Consider adding in the chest of drawers inside the wardrobe.

An alternative space saving option includes re-making your wall unit into a bed. This is particularly popular when space acts as a living room and bedroom. You will just need to pull the bed from the wall unit. Facing space constraint in your dining area? Consider an extendable table where the length of the table can be extended when you have guests.

By customising furniture,  you will be able to get maximise the limited spaces you have at home by having the control on the sizes of your sofas, beds or even dining table that will suit based on the style want.

Change your space planning with these little tips and you can transform your living space with more utility functions for your lifestyle needs.