home additions, home renovations

Do your custom built floor plans include smaller rooms?

Smaller living has become trendy and stylish. The tiny house and smaller living movements have produced a veritable wealth of design tips to make your small rooms fabulous. The use of light, color, illusion and scale can make small rooms look and feel bigger than they are. Your eastern MA premier home remodeling experts can add custom designed built-in features to enhance that sense of space a well decorated small room has.

Windows and Lighting

If your small room looks out on the yard or has a nice view, you may want to talk to contractors for home additions in Needham and the surrounding areas about replacing the room’s windows with larger ones. The big windows will open up the space, and the natural lighting is the right kind of lighting for a small room. When lighting a room of this size, avoid dark corners, which will make the room look small and dim. However, the lighting shouldn’t be harsh, stark, operating-room bright either. Accentuate the vertical line and draw the eyes upward for that sense of spaciousness by choosing pale, sheer curtains for the windows, hanging them from the ceiling instead of using standard curtain rod placement.

Scale Down

Avoid over-stuffed, large furniture like the standard sized living room couch or stuffed chair. Instead, use smaller scale items, such as a fainting couch or an airy vintage or reproduction love seat with gleaming blonde wood and richly colored seat cushions. Try delicate, almost spindly side tables in a light wood or skip the wood and go with glass to reflect light. For a bedroom, consider a brass day bed or a foldable futon. If remodeling a small bedroom, another option to think about is custom built floor plans in Needham featuring a stylish Murphy bed.

Contractors for home additions can help you decorate small rooms.

Create Space With Color

Avoid dark, deep colors except as high-contrast accents or to add a touch of warmth to a cool color atmosphere. Use these colors with a light hand and, with rare exceptions, keep them in the lower half of the available vertical space so they don’t break the eyes’ upward sweep and mar the illusion of height and space. A pale, monochromatic color scheme is another way to use color to create a feeling of openness.

Clutter Can Be Suffocating

The elegance of simplicity is an excellent concept to bear in mind when decorating a small room. Ideally, the space can be meticulously planned and created from custom built floor plans in Needham. This keeps things out of sight in custom designed, almost invisible storage spaces, leaving clean lines and open space broken by just a few carefully chosen objets d’art. Less is more is another important phrase for small room decorating. Arrange fewer pieces of furniture in the room, rather than crowding the room with many pieces.

Contact us to learn more about how custom floor plans can be used to create beautiful, highly functional small rooms.