In the interior design of a small room, wallpaper plays an important role. Small apartments in five-story buildings from the times of the USSR, which are usually called Khrushchev buildings, they cannot boast of large room dimensions. Solid walls inside the apartment do not allow increasing the square footage and in order to make small rooms seem larger, it is better to follow some proven tips. Properly selected wall coverings will not only expand the room, but also create a unique, memorable image for it.
What wallpaper color makes a room look bigger?
Color or combination certain colors You can visually expand a small space.
- When decorating the ceiling in white, a small room will appear larger if you use cool colors for the walls.
- Blue, light gray walls will add air.
- Walls in shades of gold will make the room sunny and bright, but will not increase its size.
- Black and dark Blue colour not suitable for a small room. Walls or ceilings of this color will make it even smaller.
For a bright room
If the room is bright, the walls can be rich, bright colors - blue, turquoise or green. It is better for small rooms, even light ones, not to use wallpaper in dark shades.
In the photo there is a bright children's room with large window. Pink and blue wallpaper with floral motifs brought sophistication and coziness to a small room.
For a dark room
To make a dark small room seem larger, the ceiling and walls should be as light as possible. Sometimes the best design trick is to make them white. Then, against their background, the furniture will not seem bulky and may be dark.
Which pattern makes the room bigger?
Every year, wallpaper factories offer new collections with a variety of patterns and textures. With the help of some types of drawings you can change the visual impression of a room.
- Plain wallpaper with a small floral pattern gives even a small room lightness and coziness.
- A vertical stripe adds the missing height to a low room.
- If the pattern on the wall does not contrast with the background, but harmonizes with it, then even if the pattern is large, it is an advantageous background for furniture and decorative items.
The photo shows a successful use of wallpaper with a small geometric pattern to decorate the corridor of a small apartment. White ceiling balances the proportions of the room and relieves the saturation of the walls.
Room design ideas that expand space
There are several design techniques to visually increase the area small room. One of these techniques is to cover the view wall of the room with photo wallpaper or 3D wallpaper. Appeared in last years high-quality photographic images are not inferior to frescoes in terms of the impression they make, and benefit in price and speed of execution. 3D walls can change the space of a small hall or studio beyond recognition.
Wallpaper for a small living room
Living room - main room in the house and should be decorated in the most expressive way. To decorate and expand the space of a small room, you can use photo wallpaper. Most often, the wall against which the sofa is located is most suitable for this purpose.
In the photo, the wall of a small living room is effectively decorated with vintage photo wallpaper and images of predatory animals, which adds dynamics and originality to the interior.
On the picture end wall The small hall is decorated with photo wallpapers, on which images of bright house facades look very attractive. This design technique will not leave any guest indifferent.
In the photo, the combination of stripes and plain wallpaper not only added austerity to the boy’s children’s room, but also brought small room dynamics and diversity.
The photo shows a nursery for a little princess. The walls are covered with wallpaper with birds. The small room looks gentle, bright and sunny.
A small toilet is characteristic small-sized Khrushchev buildings. Wallpaper in such toilets is an interesting design technique that can refresh the room. In these small rooms there is no furniture and you can make the walls bright and expressive.
In the photo on the left is a toilet with exquisite patterns on the walls. The room gained style and expressiveness and gained in visual impression.
Visually expand a small bathroom
The use of wallpaper in bathrooms is becoming increasingly important. From this bold decision these small spaces only benefit. Here the wallpaper on the walls looks like frescoes or artistic painting.
When you want to decorate the dining room in an unusual way, but there is not enough space in a small apartment, you can use images that will expand the space and effectively highlight the eating area. The dining area in studio apartments, covered with expressive wallpaper, looks very nice.
Design options for the dressing room
Even the dressing room can be decorated with taste. Interesting patterns will expand the space of a small room reserved for cabinets and shelves. Bright wallpaper is suitable for this purpose; light or dark depends on the designer’s idea.
Small kitchens, especially kitchens in Khrushchev-era buildings, can be visually enlarged in size if you do not limit yourself to traditional tiles when decorating the walls, but use expressive, bright wallpaper. Geometric patterns, stripes or shapes emphasize geometry in the best possible way kitchen appliances and technology. A bright accents Add speakers and a small room seems larger.
Ways to visually enlarge the hallway
The entrance hall in the house is the first room that welcomes owners and guests. To visually enlarge the hallway, the pattern on the walls can be selected from horizontal stripes or not a large pattern. To make the corridor seem larger, a design technique using horizontal stripes will lower the height and move the walls apart.
How to visually enlarge a small bedroom?
When choosing wallpaper for a small bedroom, it is better to decorate it in unobtrusive colors and patterns that are pleasing to the eye, promoting relaxation and restful sleep.
One of the design techniques for expanding space in small apartments and studio apartments is the use of photo wallpaper. When it is not possible to purchase a ready-made fresco or invite an artist to paint it, you can cover the view wall with photo wallpaper.
A perspective image of nature or a panorama of the city with plans of different sizes will create a certain mood in the room. In a studio apartment, proper zoning with photo wallpaper will help avoid clutter.
Style features to visually enlarge the room
Different interior styles have their own characteristics of using wallpaper for visual magnification small space
Provence
To make a small Provence style room seem larger, you can use light furniture. If the walls are covered with dark wallpaper, it would be appropriate to complement them with a white ceiling cornice.
The photo shows an office in Provence style, the walls are successfully combined with furniture and a white ceiling. The room does not look small and cramped.
Classic
For classic style typical use of wallpaper. Silky wallpaper with patterns, monograms and floral designs decorate this style.
The photo shows a bedroom in a classic style. The color of the walls follows the color of the furniture, which creates unity and adds sophistication to the interior. In small rooms this technique will always be relevant.
Minimalism
Style is also not complete without this decorative material like wallpaper. This coating is ideal for decorating accent walls and highlighting important surfaces.
In the photo there is a bedroom with accent wall imitating mosaic. This technique creates a feeling of greater depth and size of the room.
Modern
Modern style or modern is exactly the style in which wallpaper is used in almost all rooms of the house. Light pastel shades on the walls they create a feeling of airiness and lightness, which increases the size of a small room.
On the picture light furniture in the Art Nouveau style goes harmoniously with wallpaper of the same shade in calm geometric patterns. The absence of lines and colors that disrupt the composition creates a feeling of spaciousness and transparency.
Design options for a long narrow room
Long, narrow rooms can be made to look larger by using the right color and pattern on the walls. Geometry, especially with clear graphic contours, can create a feeling of freedom and permeability in a small room. Light walls with a glossy surface add light and space.
In the photo, the wall at the head of the bed is covered with wide striped wallpaper. This design technique allowed us to visually expand narrow space small room.
You can see in the photo interesting solution to expand a narrow small room for a child. A long boring wall of a small room is decorated with expressive 3D wallpaper with imitation shelves with books in cheerful colors.
In the photo in a narrow arch, bright inserts in certain places serve both as a visual accent and to expand the long narrow passage. The use of expressive solar wallpaper adds light and joy to a small room.
In order to visually raise the height of ceilings, there are some design techniques. Wallpapers with vertical stripes and a dark wide cornice between the wall and the white ceiling will help achieve the desired effect
The photo shows a small bedroom with low ceiling. The stripes on the walls evened out the proportions of the room and added lightness and comfort to it.
The photo shows an example of using wallpaper in small hall with a low ceiling. The white walls were highlighted with maps filled with colorful wallpaper. The vertical arrangement of the cards added height and originality to the room.
How to combine wallpaper for visual enhancement?
We cannot ignore such a design technique for visually expanding space as combining different wallpapers.
There are several ways to combine:
- Contrasting combination of wallpaper on opposite walls of the room,
- Highlighting an accent wall with photographs or contrasting colors,
- A combination of different colored walls to zone a room,
- Combination different colors and drawings for horizontal division walls,
- Highlighting with active wallpaper - bright against a pale background, with a pattern against a plain background to highlight the main area of the room.
Ideas for combining two colors
You can expand a small room by using two types of wallpaper to decorate the walls. More often good result It is obtained from a combination of plain and colored or contrasting coatings.
The photo shows an example of a small room in which wallpaper from the same collection is combined on the walls. Accent wall highlighted with wallpaper with ornaments.
Photo gallery
Using wallpaper, you can experiment with the interior of a small room, decorate the walls in an original way and visually expand the space. Below are photo examples of the use of wallpaper on walls in rooms for various functional purposes.
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Owning an apartment is almost everyone’s dream modern man, and for many it becomes a reality. But not everyone can afford a large, spacious living space. We have collected best tips interior designers and are ready to tell you how to visually enlarge the space. Square meters This article will not help you, but we promise a visual effect.
The easiest way to visually expand a room is wallpaper for walls. The choice in this segment is unlimited, from budget options to elite ones, and the process of wallpapering itself does not require the work of a professional.
Tatyana Avramenko, designer: “ If we talk about what colors make a room look bigger, this is definitely warm shades: green, yellow, beige, cream, apricot. This will make the room seem lighter and, accordingly, more spacious. For a room with low ceilings I would advise choosing wallpaper with vertical stripes - such a pattern will visually lengthen the walls in height. If, on the contrary, you need to make the room longer, use wallpaper with horizontal stripes».
For achievement maximum effect Professionals recommend combining plain light wallpaper with simple and functional furniture. Don't clutter up the already small space: let the sofa unfold only at night, and hide non-essential items in the closet.
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Wallpaper for a narrow room
Visually correct proportions elongated room possible by combining different types wallpaper We design long walls in light colors, which are one of the trends of 2014. This visually enlarges the space between them. The short ones need to be brought closer to each other. To do this, one of the walls should be made darker. You can play with contrast: glue wallpaper with a small pattern on one wall, wallpaper with a large pattern or photo wallpaper on the other.
Ulyana Shevtsova, designer, Perfectionism company: “ An image with a perspective will help to visually dissolve the usual boundaries of a room: be it an Italian street or the Cote d'Azur stretching into the distance. And also a set geometric shapes, located in a certain way.»
Contrasting colors and large patterns literally “eat up” the space. But in the case of a narrow room, they work the other way around.
In order to increase narrow room with high ceilings, the designers have a little trick up their sleeve: wallpaper should be glued to the walls at a distance of 10-20 cm from the top edge. In this way, the ceiling will settle a little, and the room as a whole will seem more spacious.
How to "raise" low ceilings?
The exact opposite problem is how to visually increase the height of the ceiling. This is where wallpaper with a vertical pattern will come to the rescue. They will stretch the walls upward, making the room seem more spacious. 
Curbs for walls lower ceilings. Don't use them if you want to make the room look upward.
An original idea is to put photo wallpaper with a picture of the sky on the ceiling. Such a pattern will create the illusion of infinity, due to which the room will seem more voluminous.
Wallpaper for a dark room
A bright room seems airier and more spacious. Therefore, if your windows face the shady side, add artificial lighting: all kinds of sconces, lamps. But avoid massive chandeliers.
Large interior items steal space. The freer the room, the more voluminous it looks.
IN dark room simply necessary light wallpaper for walls. Warm yellowish shades are best. You can also choose popular photo curtains in the same color scheme.
Not every apartment can boast large sizes, spacious rooms, high ceilings. But who likes to feel squeezed between walls instead of feeling spacious in their home? But in many ways, our perception of space is formed by optical effects that create pieces of furniture, colors and shapes of the interior. And our task is to deceive our subconscious and, using simple techniques, transform and expand the rooms.
Raising the ceiling
Taller and longer
It seems that in a room with high ceilings you can even breathe easier, and achieving this effect is not so difficult. The most obvious trick is to stick wallpaper with a vertical pattern on the walls. It is better for the pattern to be discreet, but with bright stripes or an active pattern you can highlight only some small area. Narrow cabinets and whatnots, long vases, wall mirrors and paintings in high frames also visually lift the ceiling. And it’s better to hang them a little higher than usual.
It seems that in a room with high ceilings you can even breathe easier, and achieving this effect is not so difficult.
Game of color and light
To create a high ceiling effect great importance has its lighting. You need to choose a chandelier or lamp small size with beams of light directed vertically upward. But you shouldn’t use wide curtain rods - they visually make the ceiling line lower. It's smarter to do hidden cornice and hang plain curtains that reach the length of the floor.
Cold and light shades. You can also paint the ceiling and walls the same color, but make the ceiling a little lighter in tone. Gloss paint creates a more pronounced height effect than matte.
Size matters
If the room has rather low furniture, then the ceiling seems visually higher. Bright carpets on the floor have the same effect: they attract attention and create the illusion of high ceilings in the room.
Pushing the walls apart
Color and light
As is known, light colors make the object visually larger, and dark colors visually make it smaller. IN small spaces for walls and furniture it is better to use light shades, and so that they do not merge with each other, you can take colors that differ in tone and color scheme. Strong contrasts, flashy colors, bright spots eat up part of the space, so it is better to focus on pastel neutral shades and cool tones that expand the space.
How brighter room, the bigger it seems. Therefore, to ensure that as much natural light as possible penetrates through the windows, hang on them light curtains and air curtains, and also free the window sill from large indoor plants.
Wall decoration
In small rooms it is not recommended to use wallpaper with large contrasting patterns; you should also avoid patterns that are too small - they can ripple the eyes. In this case, you can cover one of the walls with wallpaper with a contrasting color geometric pattern, and leave the other three in neutral colors. Thanks to this technique, the room will be perceived wider than it actually is. In this case, it is important to remember that a vertical pattern makes the room appear taller, while a horizontal pattern lowers and expands the space.
Photo wallpaper pasted on one of the walls also visually expands the boundaries of the room. The greatest effect is obtained by depicting a landscape in perspective: the horizon of a field or sea, mountain peaks or forest edge, a view of a city at night.
The right furniture
To make a room seem larger, you need to leave as much as possible in it. free space. All kinds of folding sofa beds, tables, built-in wardrobes and shelving will help with this. Furniture should be small-sized, with strict, laconic forms, and it is better to place it along the walls or in the corners, so as not to visually divide an already small room into parts. .
Minimalist style, laconicism in decoration and furniture, lack of open shelves, a single color scheme with several accents - all this makes the space of the room unified and voluminous. All kinds of figurines, candlesticks, photographs in frames, small paintings distract attention and cause a feeling of clutter. It is better to replace several small paintings with one medium-sized one, and open shelves free from unnecessary decor.
The power of glass and mirrors
It's no secret that mirrors are the best helpers in expanding space. Room reflected in a large wall mirror seems to be twice as large. It is better to hang it on a long wall so that, when reflected, the room does not become even longer, but turns into a square.
Furniture with glass surfaces It also visually expands the space and makes massive objects weightless. Tables with glass tops, a cabinet with translucent inserts on the doors, stained glass windows, glass lamps - they all seem to dissolve into the interior and become less noticeable to the eye.
Furniture with glass surfaces also visually expands the space and makes massive objects weightless.
Flooring
The color and structure of the floor also matters for the perception of the size of the room: it is also better to use light colors for it. Parquet or laminate laid diagonally not only visually increases the area of the room, but also hides the irregular geometry of the walls.
There is another clever trick that helps to visually enlarge a room. You need to place a beautiful bright object - a flower, figurine or vase - in the farthest corner of the room. Guests' attention will immediately fall on this item, and they will have a feeling of greater perspective.
Quite often it happens that one of the rooms in in general terms apartments are excessively narrow or elongated in length. At the same time, it seems that with any option for arranging furniture, a greater degree of comfort in it, by definition, cannot arise.
Many people want to conditionally divide a room, which in its design resembles a carriage, into two smaller parts, which in their shape can be closer to a square. But not everyone knows that there are several ways in which you can visually.
And for this it will not be necessary to take any drastic measures. There are design techniques that can create a completely comfortable and extremely cozy room even from a very long and awkward-looking room.
Enlarging the room with the color of the walls
And the first thing you should do when planning the design of a long and out of place narrow room is to decide on color tone wall coverings. Many have heard and know that white and similar colors can visually increase the size of any space.
To make the most of the properties white, it is better to create a combination or combination with some of the darker shades.
For example, you can cover two long walls parallel to each other with white or light wallpaper, and make short walls darker. But dark wallpaper They are not related here in the sense that they should be close in color to black.
They should be dark in comparison with white, that is, if they are at least four shades darker, then this will be enough to achieve the desired effect. Can be plain wallpaper or those that have a small pattern or pattern on their surface.
We enlarge the room with wallpaper with patterns of different sizes and lighting
You can visually expand the overall space of the room using this technique. Cover one wall with wallpaper with large patterns, and decorate all the remaining walls with plain wallpaper.
If your room is not only very long and narrow, but also located on the dark side and is constantly in the shadows, then the minimally lit walls can be made lighter than the rest.
When designing a long and fairly narrow room, you need to remember that bright and very saturated colors are completely unacceptable in it. Also, sharp contrasts or transitions in color will not be appropriate. This will make the room close to a chamber type.
Bright types of wallpaper, which are separated horizontally by panels, can visually “compress” the space.
Choosing a floor for a narrow room
In order to create greater harmony in the room, you need to pay attention to the floor. Here it is extremely important to choose a flooring option that could visually expand the layout of the room. According to experts, it is better to give preference to shades that are light and calm in terms of eye perception.
Types of texture floor coverings It’s better to choose the smallest one. To recreate the desired effect, you can lay the floor with parquet. But it is better to do this perpendicular to the long walls.
Choosing furniture for a narrow room
When these necessary steps reconstruction initially long room will be passed, you can deal with the furniture issue. A lot also depends on well-placed furniture, including the perception of the shape of the room as a whole.
To leave the center of the room free, you need to skillfully use the existing height of the walls to place different systems for storing things.
How to properly arrange furniture in a carriage-type room
For a carriage-type room made of furniture the best option There will either be various racks, the installation of which is carried out, what is called “under the ceiling”. This technique can somewhat reduce very high ceilings. Thus, symmetry in space and its harmonization will be achieved.
In this case, it is better to place furniture along short walls. For example, you can create a unique “P”-shaped structure from shelves. The shelves themselves should have a different format. Their location should not be on the same line or level. It is better to use different heights for their installation.
The door and window can be framed with shelving, the design of which resembles a bridge. This way you can achieve what long walls in the room will be visually shortened by at least a meter. If you have children, then... It needs to be placed just in this long room.
In addition to practical purposes, this will also create an aesthetic advantage. If you place one sleeping area above the other in such a way as to slightly move their position relative to each other, then a wardrobe can later be placed near the first tier.
In this case, it is advisable to combine the staircase with the closet or place it close to it. For example, steps can be decorated with drawers. Thanks to this design, you will free up quite a bit usable space, and this will make the room visually wider.
If you fence off a common space with the help of shelving, then you can conditionally divide it into certain zones.
For similar purposes, you can use chairs, cabinets and a coffee table in different ways.
In one area, for example, you can use furniture to create a living room atmosphere. Another of the zones will cope with the role of a workplace or office.
Podium for zonal division of an elongated room
Sometimes, to achieve the same effect, they erect it on the floor of a narrow room as additional element podium.
This way, a specific zone appears by itself, the purpose of which can be designated as a sleeping place, if, or an office, if you put a chair on it on the podium.
The space available under the podium structure should not be wasted either. It can be easily equipped with drawers to store things in them.
Mirrors to harmonize the space of a narrow room
A win-win technique that allows you to make a room visually wider is competent.
In initially narrow rooms you can often find decorative finishing in the form of volumetric mirrors. You can make the floor plan as close to a square shape as possible using mirrors mounted on a long wall.
But mirrors must be used with caution and in moderation. Otherwise, the room will resemble a gym or dance hall.
If you cannot boast of sufficient experience working with reflective surfaces, then it is recommended to entrust such a task to a professional for practical implementation.
Decorative interior elements to visually expand the room
In order to expand and generally harmonize space, you can safely use decorative elements interior
Curtains equal in width to the window opening will come to your aid. For a narrow room, it is better to give preference to curtains that are made from a material that is quite light in texture. This way they will let more light rays pass through them.
It will be just wonderful if the one standing in this room turns out to be a tone or two darker than the color of the wallpaper. However, it should not go beyond the same color palette. The texture and shade of the shelves and wall shelving should also match the tone of the coating on the walls.
Then the furniture structures themselves will not seem overly massive for a narrow room. Thus, making even a very long and narrow room wider is not at all difficult. Using the techniques described, you can easily harmonize your home.
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If you are the owner small apartment, you are faced with the question of how to make it more spacious and comfortable. This article will help you understand how to visually expand a room and make it unique. Decide what you want your room to look like. Create stylish interior 2017, based on fashion trends.
Colors that expand space
Choose a color for the walls. If you bright girl, a sunny bright color or creamy white will suit you. If you are confident, then light green or blue. If you are a creative person, then pink or purple. Think about big picture your room. Don’t forget, the colors that expand the space are beige, cream, and pudding shades.
Think about your interests. Some examples are: music, art, movies, animals, etc. Write that list. This will be useful for choosing the design of your room. How to visually expand a narrow room - stick to light colors!
Start by moving the furniture. Find good new positions and make sure all your favorite furniture will fit. Move only empty tables and drawers, and temporarily place things on the bed. Donate or throw away any unnecessary items to clear out space and free up drawers.
Color scheme to expand the room
Who wouldn't want to big house with spacious rooms? But often a person cannot afford such a pleasure as buying a large living space, so he has to huddle in small rooms.
But if you look at the situation from a different angle, then you can understand that in fact not everything is so bad, and a small room has its advantages. Firstly, they are easier to clean, secondly, they are cheaper in terms of heating, and thirdly, if you approach the design of the room correctly, then you can create a truly cozy and visually large room.
For creating visual space you can take advantage of a simple “optical illusion”, the possibilities optical illusions. In order to recreate visual space you will need:
- Wallpaper in light, cold or pastel colors.
Photo wallpaper.
Mirrors and lamps.
Curtains and furniture.
What wallpaper expands the room
For a small room, you should give preference to light colors; it is also strongly recommended to “play” with contrasts. For example, if the room is longer and narrower, a perfect option would be to make long walls in light colors to distance them from each other and visually expand the space.
And the smaller ones, on the contrary, should be darkened to bring them closer to each other. Or make a contrast - stick wallpaper with small patterns on one wall, and large ones on the opposite wall. A small pattern on the wallpaper makes the room visually larger.
What wallpaper expands a room with low ceilings? You can cover it with wallpaper with vertical lines. This technique will visually make the ceiling higher. Or paint the ceiling a couple of shades lighter. If you decorate the entire room in monochromatic light colors, it will create a unique, airy atmosphere.
Photo wallpaper
Photo wallpapers with a view of a receding forest path, the sea with small boats in the distance, a mountain landscape, etc. will fit perfectly into the interior of a small room. In general, everything that depicts perspective.
Another chic solution would be to choose photo wallpaper with an enlarged image of something, for example, a shell, some plant, a bird, and so on. The main thing is that the photo wallpaper should be pasted on a wall that is not filled with furniture, especially high furniture, because this will spoil the whole effect.
Furniture
It is advisable to install multifunctional, light furniture, using colors to expand the space. An excellent choice would be folding sofa, in which you can fold your bedding for the day and pack it up so it doesn’t take up space. Shelves on the walls can be painted to match the walls themselves. It is strongly recommended, if possible, to collect things in a closet so that they do not clutter the room.
Curtains
How to visually expand a narrow room? Curtains, just like wallpaper, should be chosen light, with small patterns. A great option there will be a choice of longer curtains that lie slightly on the floor. This length will visually make the room taller. You cannot use huge curtains, large and heavy curtains, great amount ruffles and bows, because they create the visual feeling of a small space.
Cleaning.
It may seem boring, but it can actually be a fun activity if you imagine what your room will look like later. Remove dust, dirt, cobwebs... Do everything you can.
Put all your books on bookshelves. What about soft toy on the next shelf or on the bed? Organize the room as you wish.
And finally, in the final part, accessories! Create your own stylish interior for 2017.