Small corner L-shaped desk (real space saver)
You can use a particular theme to decorate your house but perhaps you have a plan to decorate your office room in a completely and uniquely style that can reflect to your own personality. You can do it yourself not too difficultly without paying extra cost to hire a professional and qualified service. But unfortunately, if you have a small room or not too large work-space then you will need some special suggestions to make it looks larger and bigger. There are some free helpful tips to realize it. Let’s explore more about those tips in this article!
The steps on how to make the small room appears larger and bigger can be started from several simply ideas. Well, perhaps you agree that using the dark colors is helpful to add the warmth atmosphere, but unfortunately this idea is not ideal choice for limited space, because most of dark colors usually will lead of constricting the space. Therefore, as possible to avoid using dark colors for wall, fabric or even in pieces of furniture that you will place in small room like desk, chair, cupboard (chest), etc. Bright color itself is so helpful to bring effect of creating the large illusion of space that eventually will make the room appears bigger than its normal should be. If you have adequate budget, well… there are also available some pieces of furniture that already designed for mini rooms, such as l-shaped corner desks, hutch desks, armless chairs & sofas, etc.
Don’t restrict yourself by having perception that bright color is always identical with white color! There are available other colors that probably meet to your preference such as wheat, ghost-white, linen color, white-violet color, pale goldenrod, or else. Below are other helpful tips to modify your mini room appears bigger:
- Set the light properly! It is related to the effect of color like mentioned before. You can try to use the light model that able to rolled up (helpful to allow the light in adequately), such as ‘Roman blinds’.
- Minimize the unused stuff or furniture in the room.
- Use some pieces of furniture that can provide additional space to store your stuffs. Like mentioned before, desk that come with hutch mechanism is not too bad idea.
- Consider the size of furniture! Choose the desk, chair, or sofa that can make the room appears more spacious. Once again, like written before, sofa or chair that with armless model is smart idea.
- Creating some horizontal stripes is excellent idea. This can be achieved by painting the wall with a few horizontal patterns. You can also use carpet that has horizontal stripes design.
- Choose the curtains for the windows that have match color to the color of wall. You can also hang or install the curtains wider and taller than the size of your windows.
- Optimize the optic principle to enlarge your small room. You can use mirrors on the wall to reflect the light. It is simply idea but so helpful to trick the eye into modifying the room appears two times larger.
- As possible to avoid the multiples of items such as putting a pair of floor-standing lamps.
- Utilize the available space properly! Example, you should avoid to place things in the middle of the room if you can put them in the corner of the room as well.
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