Spacejoy
Ceiling trims and moldings are beautiful and give rooms definition and character. But some trims can make a small room with low ceilings feel even smaller. Here’s some important things to consider for all your small rooms with trim, soffits, vaults, and dormers.
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Olena Bohovyk
If something is feeling "off" in one of your rooms, I'd say that that "something" could be balance. It helps to think of any space in your home as an equation. What you do to one side needs to balance, not necessarily match, the other side. Let me explain.
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Inside Weather
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.
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Rachel Claire
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.
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Minh Pham
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.
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Matthew Izzo Home
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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