The truth is small furniture in small rooms can often make the room feel unbalanced. Just like weights and measurements, the furniture in a small room must fill the space appropriately to feel balanced. If your small room feels off, it’s probably because the furniture is too small.
Read MoreWhere to Use Wood Wall Paneling in Your Home
Wood paneling conjures up pictures of dark and stuffy drawing rooms that look and feel oppressive. The truth is completely different. Modern wood wall paneling is a fantastically versatile wall finish that can be whatever character you choose.
Read More5 Tricks to Make a Small Room Look Bigger
Small rooms can be tough to decorate and arrange. Finding furniture, choosing paint, and editing your choices make it harder. Often small rooms have architectural features that can make the room feel smaller. If you’re feeling a little claustrophobic lately, here’s 5 easy and affordable changes to help.
Read MoreDemilune Tables: Why Every Small or Tricky Room Needs One
A common complaint I hear from clients is that they struggle to find furniture to fit in tight spots like entry ways, or near a pass-through doorway, or in small bedrooms. These areas are often narrow or small and larger, rectangular furniture won’t fit. The answer is a demilune table. Here’s why.
Read MoreSmall Bathroom Organization Ideas
Small bathrooms are often sorely lacking in adequate storage, like cabinets or drawers. Without storage, your lotions, potions, and soaps will turn into unsightly clutter fast. Let’s explore some of the best hacks for making the most of the space in your bathroom so all your necessities are tidy and organized.
Read MoreDownsizing With Your Pet: No Fuss, No Muss
Downsizing is enormously stressful at the best of times. Add your furry best friend into the mix and it’s a lot like climbing Mount Everest with both hands tied behind your back. Pets are creatures of routine – they don’t handle changes very well. Luckily, I have some surefire suggestions to keep your furry friend happy during the move.
Read More6 No Fail Decorating Rules for Small Rooms [Infographic]
These 6 rules will help you arrange and define a seating area, make the best use of certain types of furniture, and utilize the height of your walls like a pro. You’ll also learn how to avoid a common small room mistake so your room will feel larger immediately.
Read MoreWhen is it a Good Idea to Ditch the Sofa in an Awkward Living Room?
Living rooms with multiple doorways can be tough to arrange. If the room is narrow or long, that makes it even harder. Have you ever thought of using only chairs to arrange your awkward, small living room? A layout like this can be very versatile and functional.
Read More9 Reasons Why Your Tricky, Small Room Needs a Gateleg Table
Gateleg tables are one of the most versatile pieces of furniture to have in a small, awkward, or tricky room. It’s important to think in terms of multi-function for rooms with challenging layouts. I’ll show you nine ways you may not have thought of to use a gateleg table.
Read More10 Incredible Expert Designer Tips That Will Elevate Your Small Home to the Next Level!
Here’s some of the most innovative and creative uses for challenging small spaces I’ve ever come across. If you need help figuring out how to make tight spots in your home or apartment functional and beautiful, this post is for you! These experts will show you how to rethink, embellish and fine tune tricky and awkward rooms so you can turn eye sores into eye candy!
Read More5 Steps to Create a Functional & Aesthetic Small Home Office
Spending a lot of time in a room that doesn’t support what you need to do your job is a frustrating endeavor. It’s so important to understand what you need to make a work from home set up work for you. If you don’t know exactly how to create a functional and aesthetic small home office space, here’s 5 super useful tips for planning your layout so you can create a space you’ll want to be in.
Read More3 Amazing Ways to Layout a 9’ x 10’ Bedroom with an Angled Wall and a Bumped-in Closet
Small bedrooms can be very challenging. But finding furniture with the right dimensions that will also fit nicely into a room that’s less than 10’ square is even more challenging. Add an angled wall, a bumped-out closet, and an off-center window and you have a super tricky room to lay out. Here’s how to make a small bedroom with multiple challenges work!
Read MoreProducts and Purposes for Awkward, Empty Spaces in Small Rooms
What do you do with that empty space in the corner of your room or along a short wall? It's too small for a large piece of furniture, but it's big enough to look awkward without anything there. I have 9 suggestions to make this empty space practical and purposeful. Let me show you how.
Read MoreMy 11 Biggest Peeves About Decorating Small and Awkward Rooms
It’s important to consider the placement of furniture and décor in small or awkward rooms. Some things that work in bigger spaces will overwhelm a smaller space. Proper planning of furniture size and placement is important for any size room, but it can mean success or failure in a smaller room. Here’s what to do.
Read MoreSmall Space Ideas From Around The World
It’s been somewhat remarkable to witness the rise of small-space living over the years. It can partially be chalked up to our ever-more-crowded cities, and the simple fact that most people in big urban areas sacrifice space for location. It may not always be an ideal situation, but the idea of making the most of it, and turning a small space into a delightful one, can bring a certain charm to it.
Read MoreHow to Arrange An Awkward 10 x 12 Living Room with a Corner Fireplace and a TV
Narrow living rooms can have challenges for furniture placement. Add in doorways and furniture and it can sometimes feel like a game of Tetris trying to make it all fit. When you have a narrow living room with an angled fireplace and 4 doorways, it’s all about the pathways.
Read More8 Ways to Maximize a Small Galley Kitchen
Galley kitchens can be super efficient and charming but in most, the charm can be overshadowed by a lack of storage, feeling cramped, and not having entertaining space. Here’s 8 ways to maximize a small galley kitchen so you can make it feel 5 times bigger.
Read MoreWhat’s it Like to Live in just over 200 square feet? How to layout a 12’ x 19’ New York City Studio Apartment.
What’s it like to live in just over 200 square feet? When all the rooms in your home are in one space, what makes it all work? How can you make living in 12’ x 18’ total, feel like you have elbow room for days? Living without interior walls in a small space doesn’t have to mean sacrificing style or functionality. Studio apartments can be highly efficient, wildly practical and truly beautiful. Let me show you how.
Read MoreExactly How to Style an 8’ X 8’ Dining Room
You can have a gorgeous small dining room, even if it’s a super compact 8’ square. I’ll show you the tricks that will make every inch of the room work like magic! In the end it’ll feel like you have tons of room! Here’s exactly how to style an 8’ x 8’ Dining Room.
Read MoreHow to Make a Small Multipurpose Dressing, Office Craft Room Combo Work
Getting multiple uses out of the same small space doesn’t have to be hard. When you get totally clear on how much time and space is spent on each activity, the ideas for how to layout the furniture almost becomes automatic. You begin to see exactly how much space each activity needs.
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