Small houses are part of our domestic scene by choice, by necessity, for a while or forever. A setting that with its colors, its appearance, its shape, its textures, its light, will end up defining us as much as our clothes.
There are different tricks to make our small house seem bigger. You can play with the furniture, the fabrics, the light or the arrangement of the elements of the house. In this case, we will discuss some useful ideas on how to use colors to decorate small houses, which will allow our house to appear bigger and come alive.
It is a series of tips so that our house harmonizes with our furniture, its orientation or simply with ourselves, at the same time that it visually appears larger. Our house will fit us like a glove.
Ideas for using colors in small houses
In general, we must understand that light enlarges the volumes, so we must take advantage of light colors to avoid small spaces appearing so. We can follow these simple tricks to make our house look bigger using colors:
- Bright, satin colors visually enlarge rooms.
- Wallpaper or vinyl with vertical stripes helps to raise low ceilings, providing more comfortable rooms.
- Black and white is sure bets for elegance, but the size of the spaces decreases if we abuse black. It is better to use it in furniture or accessories, such as cushions, lamps, tables…
- Brick walls in small houses make the room smaller, but if we want to take advantage of the space and texture of the brick, we can use enamels to give a clear finish to the wall.
- A room with balanced proportions gains in amplitude if we treat one of the walls in a differentiated way, painting it with warm colors or placing patterned wallpaper.
- A space painted only with warm colors makes the room seem smaller. It is better to balance it with some white surface.
- The doors of small bathrooms can be treated as one more wall. Lacquering a wooden door of a toilet in white allows us to increase its space.
- Using furniture in neutral colors (the entire gray scale, from white to black) avoid further reducing small spaces.
- A narrow hallway widens if we paint the skirting board in the same color as the wall.
How we see color allows us to act on perception and it does so in a simple, impressive andeconomicalway. We can play in numerous ways to achieve the desired effects, that is, the important thing is to be clear about the objective and always evaluate different options.
