How to Make Your Home Feel More Spacious

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One of the most important issues for many homeowners is the amount of space they have available to them in their homes. If you feel as if you don’t have much space at all, you might be tempted to move. But that involves a lot of stress and you’ll probably need to spend a lot of money to make it happen as well. So what can you do to make your existing home feel more spacious?

That’s something we’re going to explore today. There are so many little tips and tricks you can implement in your home to make it feel a bit more spacious than it currently does. A few steps in the right direction can make a huge difference in terms of how comfortable you feel in your home and how much space you have at your disposal.

So, with that in mind, we’re going to talk today about some of the steps you can take to make your home feel bigger and more spacious. Don’t hesitate to read on right away and find out everything you need to know about this.

Make Use of Interior Glass Doors

Glass doors in the home can be really useful when you want to allow more natural light to flow through the space. They’re obviously not ideal when it comes to matters such as privacy, but when it comes to creating functional spaces that feel open and spacious, glass can be a real benefit. The most obvious benefit being the way it allows natural light to flow through the space and cover more of the home. That’s just what you need if you feel as if the space currently is lacking in that department.

Draw the Eye Upwards

When you draw the eye upwards, you make the space feel bigger because the ceilings will seem higher. It’s essentially an optical illusion, but it’s one that can have a big impact on the perceptions of space and height in the room. Using bookshelves that go from the floor to the ceiling is one way of doing this. Rather than stopping part way up the wall, a bookcase that goes all the way to the ceiling accentuates the height of the room, making the ceiling seem higher than it might actually be in reality.

Create a Better Flow Between Rooms

When the flow between the rooms in your home is more natural and seamless, it always seems to make those spaces seem bigger. That’s obviously precisely the kind of impression you want to create in your home right now. So think about what you can do to start creating a better sense of flow between the rooms. Widening the entry points and maybe taking out the doors is a good idea. An open entry way rather than a small door definitely makes rooms flow into one another much better.

Cut Back Trees and Foliage Outside Your Windows

We’ve already briefly touched upon how you can make better use of natural light in your home. Another thing you can do is think about the ways in which the trees might currently be limiting the amount of natural light that’s entering the space. You don’t want to have trees and bushes stopping you from maximising the amount of natural light coming into the home. That’s why you should try your best to cut back the trees and foliage outside your windows that might be preventing that natural light from making its way in.

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Keep the Colors Light

When choosing the color scheme for your home, you need to make sure that you’re keeping it as light as it can be. If you make the place feel too dark with your choice of colors, you’ll run the risk of making the space in general feel smaller and more cramped, and that’s precisely the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve here. So when picking our colors, try to keep them as light as they can be. And try to make sure they’re not overwhelming the space in any way at all.

Add Some Artwork to the Walls

It might also be a good idea to think about adding some works of art to the walls of your home if that’s something that you haven’t yet done. A little artwork can go a really long way and make your home feel a lot more open and inviting than it would otherwise feel. It adds an extra dimension to the space in terms of the visual impact, and that’s just what you need when you want to make a space feel bigger than it actually is. You can buy some prints you like and put them in ready made picture frames, and that’s all you really need to do.

Find Smart Storage Solutions

Smart storage solutions are definitely going to pay off if you want to make the most of the space at your disposal. You need to be smart about things in order to avoid clutter and messy environments that only serve to make the space feel smaller than it actually is. Look for new ways to store your most important items, and consider renting a storage unit if there are big items that simply don’t need to be in the home and that take up too much of the space.

Ensure Every Furniture Item Has a Reason and Purpose

If you want to make your indoor space feel as expansive and spacious as it can be, you can’t overwhelm it with furniture that doesn’t need to be there and that isn’t really serving any kind of purpose. So make sure that you know why you have each furniture piece in your home. If you feel as if there are any items that aren’t doing much more than taking up precious space, simply remove them. Sell them or donate them to someone who’ll get better use from them.

Select Lighter Window Treatments

The window treatments you select for your home will go a long way towards deciding how much natural light comes into your home. And, as such, how spacious your interiors end up feeling. It’s definitely a good idea to select much lighter and less bulky window treatments. These not only let in more natural light from the outdoors but they also take up less space. The heavier window treatments feel big and rake away from the space that exists in the room, and that’s not what you want. So think about whether now is the right time to make a change to the window treatments throughout your home.

Make Use of Mirrors

This trick is as old as time, but it still works as wonderfully as it ever did. You should try to make the most of mirrors if you’re going to add a sense of depth to a room. As well as creating an optical illusion and making the room feel deeper, the use of mirrors also creates a more spacious feeling by reflecting light around the room into every corner. You’re essentially replicating and spreading that natural light, making sure it goes even further. So if you’re not making the most of mirrors in your hole already, that’s definitely something that needs to change. 

Choose Multifunctional Furniture for Better Storage

Another way in which you can get creative with your sprays solutions is by choosing furniture items in the home that have more than one function. For example, some sofas might come with a hidden compartment that offers an extra storage area. Lots of furniture items come with these options these days, so you should try to make the most of them if you don’t have any of these in your home already. There are all kinds of options out there on the market today, so do your research and find what’ll work best for you. 

Ensure Clutter Doesn’t Build Up

Clutter is the enemy of open space. So if you want to make your home feel as spacious as it can be, you need to make sure you’re not letting the clutter build up too quickly. Ideally, you should avoid clutter of all kinds, but we’re all susceptible to keeping hold of things we don’t really need. So take steps to be more critical and regularly have a clear out of the things you’re holding onto that you don’t really need to have any longer. It can be tough to get rid of things, but by setting up some rules and criteria for what you allow yourself to keep, it should become a lot easier for you. It takes self-discipline but it’s more than worth it.

Be sure to make the most of the different ideas we’ve discussed here today if you’re interested in making your home feel a little more spacious than it feels right now. As you’ve seen, there’s no shortage of ideas to implement, and you can be sure at least some of the ideas discussed above will have the impact you’re looking for.