About this episode
Do you have a small area in your home that is hard to decorate? Don't worry about it... we have lots of great ideas to live large in a small room! We all have spaces in our homes that are smaller and sometimes these are the most challenging to decorate! What room in your house needs to live larger! Here's the first rule of small space decorating... KEEP IT SIMPLE! Remember to take pictures of your room as you style it. Pictures don't lie! If you have a small bedroom think about installing a Murphy bed. You can have all those extra space to live in and pull down your bed when you go to sleep. Think about keeping your walls light and your color palette light. Unifying a room with color is a great way to make a space look larger. Infuse lots of texture into a small room when you use a light color palette. Pull the furniture away from the walls. Just a tad. Doing this will give the illusion of space. Let a room breathe! Don't decorate every space! Be very aware of keeping decor simple. Keep windows very minimally dressed, or even keep window free of fabric. Think about smart storage solutions. In a small room, light becomes important. Pay attention to brightening up your small space with light. Furniture with less visual weight works better in a small area. Keep your furniture leggy! Things that are skirted might look to heavy in a smaller area. Use your closet wisely. How about taking off the door of your closet and make a bookshelf or a desk. Add things like molding, a high shelf or curtains hung high will help the eye move up. Remember our eyes like to look around a room and if we can draw our eyes up to something in a room our mind's perceive this as "larger". Add a mirror to a small room. Don't add tiny art. Even in a small room, it will get lost. Go bigger. Smaller things may look cluttered. Keep your small space uncluttered! And keep it neat! Think about the "cantaloupe rule" ... don't have anything in your space smaller than a cantaloupe. Pretty good advice! Scale furniture to your room. Larger furniture with less visual weight. YOU CAN HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SMALL ROOM! Need help with your home? We'd love to help! We do personalized consults, and we'll offer advice specific to your room that typically includes room layout ideas, suggestions for what the room needs, and how to pull the room together. We'll also help you to decide what isn't working for you. We work with any budget, large or small. Find out more HERE Hang out with us between episodes at our blogs, IG and Kelly's YouTube channels. Links are below to all those places to catch up on the other 6 days of the week! Kelly's IG HERE Kelly's Youtube HERE Kelly's blog HERE Anita's IG HERE Anita's blog HERE Are you subscribed to the podcast? Don't need to search for us each Wednesday let us come right to your door ...er...device. Subscribe wherever you listen to your podcasts. Just hit the SUBSCRIBE button & we'll show up! If you have a moment we would so appreciate it if you left a review for DTT on iTunes. Just go HERE and click listen in apple podcasts. XX, Anita & Kelly DI-15:24 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .