#1 Furnishing a small living room
A large living room is not for everyone. But that does not mean that we cannot cozy our small living room!
Essential in a small living room is to find a way to create space. An empty corner with which you actually do nothing a function by, for example, storing and storing your books out. Multifunctional furniture is very practical in a small home and there is also enough for sale in this area. For example, think of an extendable dining table, a sofa bed or a coffee table where you can also store things.
#2 Furnishing a small bedroom
Furnishing a small bedroom can sometimes be a bit tricky. Your bed is the most important element in your bedroom, and you should not return (even with a smaller bedroom) to sort out the right size bed. Make sure your bed is spacious and comfortable enough, and important with a small bedroom: is also high enough. This way you can easily place practical sliding drawers under the bed where you can store all your things.
With a small bedroom, choosing the right wardrobe is also important. Make optimum use of the height of your ceiling and choose the highest possible cupboard, so that you can easily store all your clothes in your wardrobe. Also choose a slightly deeper cupboard, so that you can store even more! Use side tables as space winners, which you can easily place everywhere!
#3 Play with Light & Space
A small house screams for light! Light colors in your interior will only reinforce the natural light that you get into your home. Light colors reflect light, dark colors absorb it. All kinds of reasons to use as many light colors as possible in your smaller home! Create atmosphere with accessories in somewhat deeper and warm colors such as some cozy pillows or a hip rug industrial.
#4 Make use of partitions
To create the most spacious effect in the home, it is important to maintain an overview and peace by separating separate living spaces. Do not immediately think of placing a wall, but use a room divider or beautiful for example closet To apply separation in the room.
Plants or furniture are also a simple and easy solution to get the feeling that there are transitions in spaces accentuated without losing space. Put a bank or armchair For example, so down that it forms a separation, or place some plants next to each other.
#5 The use of glass & mirrors
Do you want to tackle it big? Then place a glass wall in the house, instead of a brick wall. This way the light comes through the entire home and you get the feeling of one big whole, while the living spaces are closed.
The well -known trick, which really always works: placing a nice big one mirror industrial Making the space optically look many times larger.
A huge wall -sized mirror can be placed in a strategic place, making the living space emotionally twice as large.
When placing the mirror, take into account the shape of the room and the light. Do you want the room to look wider? Then place a mirror against a wide wall. Do you want the room to look longer? Then place it against a narrow wall.
#6 Floating furniture
Floating elements or boards are extremely practical and perfect for a small apartment. For example, find out beautiful shelves yourself and attach them to the wall, for example with metal carriers: original and practical!
Many furniture can also be made floating-for example, when you make a TV furniture floating and remove from the floor, you immediately create more openness and space in the home. And it also looks chic and sleek!
A bookcase takes up a lot of space and can be replaced by different shelves and floating boxes. This way you immediately have an original storage system.
#7 Using your floor
The floor can contribute to how spacious and light your apartment looks. When using, for example, the wrong color, or wrong material, the space may seem much smaller. If you want to make the space look larger, use (almost) the same color floor as what is also used on the walls. With this you create a spatial whole and furniture will seem to float.
A handy tip is also to let the floor go through as much as possible on one floor in different rooms. If you would give a different floor every room, the space seems optically smaller. The omission of skirting boards between the doorposts also gives a spatial effect.
#8 The right lighting
The correct use of lighting is essential in the interior, but especially when designing a small home or small apartment. Not every house is blessed with large windows, so if you don't receive a lot of natural light in your space, it is important to take care of it good lighting. You should opt for lighting on multiple levels, such as a ceiling lamp and a wall lamp, in combination with another nice one floor lamp in the corner. The variation ensures that the small space seems optically larger.
#9 Transparent elements
Transparent furniture and/or elements are the trick for a spatial eyes interior. The more you see, the bigger the space seems. Transparent furniture is the perfect solution for this. In addition to being very stylish, you also create an airy and chic look in your home.
For example, go for a coffee table with glass top, or a special transparent box as a coffee table as above. In addition to looking nice, it is also very practical thanks to the storage space in the coffin!
#10 In the air
The spatial look that you stop after walking the above is through in your interior by choosing furniture pieces on legs. Because the furniture goes into the height and therefore the floor is visible, you optically create a more spatial effect. In addition, pieces of furniture on legs are also a super hip and we see them coming back a lot in the Scandinavian living style. A couch on legs and a TV furniture on legs do a lot for the room! Is there insufficient space to install a high cupboard? For example, place some nice crates on top of each other: it looks nice and you can put many things in it!
#11 Accessories
Accessories are the finishing touch in your interior, and a small space certainly does not mean that you have to make concessions when buying accessories. Subtility is key when decorating a small home. Buy nice baskets or storage boxes so that your things can be stored neatly and stylishly. This way, accessories are not only beautiful, but also functional. A cozy candle here and there, and some nice cushions in bright colors: a personal touch and implementing your own atmosphere in your home is very important, but keeps it simple and ordered.
#12 Clean up!
We humans are collecting animals and secretly have more things in the house than we think. Reorganize, well up and bring away what you no longer need or use. For example to a charity, the cycle or the neighbors that may be able to use your things well. Do you have trouble putting things away definitively? Then place the items separately in a box and keep it elsewhere. After a year you have a lot less trouble giving away these things!
#13 Playing with shape
Boring, tight right straight to furniture can sometimes look boring in a small apartment. Therefore play with different forms to make the interior more exciting and playful. Think of a nice round lamp, or a cupboard with different layers and materials. A round table In and square space, it immediately makes it playful and exciting (er). A bank with round corners can also suffice.
#14 do's and don'ts
Don't:
- opting for too large furniture
- Put the corners in the spaces full
- Use too rectangular pieces of furniture
- Too many unnecessary accessories
- Use too dark colors for floors and/or walls
- Instead of height, going into the width
Do's:
+ Go for round elements in your home
+ Clean up regularly
+ Keeps the use of accessories limited
+Play with lighting on multiple levels
+ Create depth with different layers
+ Keep the whole light and airy
+ Provide multifunctional pieces of furniture
+ Go for transparent elements
#15 Your personal touch
Do not forget to leave your personal stamp on your interior by adding characteristic and own objects. As a true interior lover you really count with a nice one Gallery Wall. From photos of your loved one, to beautiful postcards or places where you have been. The perfect balance in color, lists and shapes make the gallery wall a difficult part of the interior. The trend can currently be attached to your plates or photos on the wall by means of tape.
Have you benefited from these handy tips and inspiration to set up your small home or apartment functionally and atmospheric? Let us know in the comments!