Living rooms are the heart and soul of every home. As a space that can serve as a lounge room, workspace, and entertainment room, it comes in all shapes, forms and sizes.
If you’re looking for a way to maximize your small living room, here are big design tips from Revolution.
1. Maximize vertical spaces with a gallery wall
Magnify vertical ceiling spaces by adorning it to the brim with a diversified gallery wall of your own choosing. Tall ceilings and vertical spaces improve a room’s overall impression by granting a higher feel of the room.
Leading the eyes above to the topmost parts of the ceiling with the help of a gallery wall can reward living rooms with a fuller feel and an imposing view.
2. Design your walls and ceilings with stripes
Outline and structure your ceilings and walls with stripes patterns and accents to have a great impact on a room’s inclusive space. In most cases, vertical striped walls assist in making a room look taller than it really is, and horizontal striped walls establish a wider length of the room.
3. Establish a symmetrical bond
Organize your living room in a balanced arrangement: set up equal sizes and shapes of artworks, corresponding color schemes for pillows and seating, and analogous wall colors to top the technique off.
A symmetrical room promotes an orderly style of harmony, which always prevents a room to look uncluttered and unorganized.
4. Give sofa-less living rooms a shot
Sticking with the traditional living room style of having wide sofas and loveseats at the center may hinder you from discovering the space-saving wonders of sofa-less rooms. In small spaces, a pair or two of lounge chairs with a coffee table in the center can do the same trick. Tuck cushion pillows in seats for a welcoming mood.
Leaving out sofas in the living room picture can save you a large amount of space that you can use to establish a bigger and a spacious feel of the room for your guests to move around comfortably.
5. Solve space issues with bold patterns
Compose your living room with bold patterns: from the pillows, decorations, wall colors, seating, and curtains to solve space issues in tight rooms. Inviting bold patterns points the eyes to dwell on the style schemes instead of the limited space they’re in. Giving your living room an extended feel despite its limits.
6. Adhere to a consistent color palette
Coordinate each furniture and wall colors with a varying color palette to establish a coherent mood and an uncluttered look in each area. Color palettes come in various tone schemes that can be rated based on visual comfortability and capability to open up spaces.
Play and mix with colors, and observe if it can be on par with the different elements of your living room.
7. Combine mirrors and wallpapers
Regarding opportunities for space utilization, adding mirrors placed opposite of the entry door and across windows is the perfect trick to create the illusion of a bigger room. This reflects external views which invite light to open up the area. Attach a mirror together with a well-patterned wallpaper to form a centerpiece.
8. Spotlight on striking ceilings
Neglecting ceiling designs can be considered as a pitfall if you’re new to interior designing. Ceilings overlook the entire room, and it’s one of the main attractions that can make eyes look upward and marvel on its structured beauty. Enhance your ceiling by designing it with wood patterns, light fixtures, and colored tones to influence the room’s entire atmosphere.
9. Invest on multifunctional furniture
Customize each piece of furniture to save more space without sacrificing style and usability. Multifunctional furniture is a focal point of contemporary design, as maximizing space is of high importance to give way for creative living rooms. Have storage cupboards and coffee tables be an all-around alternative for seating and counter purposes.
Arrange multifunctional furniture a few meters away from the wall for easy access, and a pair of two to four seats for a homely feel.
10. Settle for armless seating
Eliminate space restrictions with armless seats to provide more opportunities for shared seating arrangements and comfortability for every occupant. Place armless seats away from the wall and into the centerfold for continuous connection and immediate movability.
11. Place oversized mirrors beside windows
A living room must always come with a mirror or two in tow, regardless of its shape and size. Position an oversized mirror beside your windows to induce an imaginative feel of a larger space. Mirrors also attract light, which makes a room airier and reduces lighting costs.
Oversized mirrors can be bought in standardized forms or can be customized. Remember to angle mirrors beside or across entryways to upgrade a room’s feel and as a cover up for a room’s lack of decorations.
12. Make way for storage walls
Secure a storage wall for your shelving needs, instead of buying cupboards for each supply department. Storage walls are great wonders, not just for your need for space, but also as a decorative body. Putting up decorative paraphernalia such as vases, books, appliance sets, and even your awards is a great way to express your sentiments.
Build a large storage wall that can shelter as many decorative items and daily tools for immediate access.
13. Fasten draperies as high as you can
Appreciate your high ceilings and windows by hanging drapes as high as the ceiling permits. Curtains are an opulent piece of décor that can improve a room’s mood and space volume.
Give emphasis to your windows by linking complementing drapes as a finishing touch to the overall look of your living room. Keep in mind that drapes must match a window’s stature and the room’s size. Customize the way you hang curtains, it can be inside-outside, one-sided, or match it up with blinds and panels to suit your living room’s needs.
14. Install wall-mounted lights instead of light stands
Installing wall-mounted lights can grant you direct and adjustable control over a living room’s lighting. It can also act as dividers. Wall-mounted lights bring a new stylish fad on its own as it can complement a ceiling’s texture and a room’s overall illumination by not giving up space, in contrast to light stands and floor lamps that occupy a certain space in your living room.
Mount wall lights on the ceiling or at the top part of walls where hidden and significant areas need to be illuminated. As a decorative bonus, flair your wall lights with curtains and décor accents to attract attention.
15. Distinguish space through color blocking
Comply with color blocking trends to spice up your living room’s space. Paint your walls and format your floors in varying colors to discover a new pattern of color schemes that can suit your tastes. It can be a mixture between neutral, bold, and quirky. It’s a great method to test colors to revamp your living room.
Color blocking is an effective method to figure out spaces among the other elements of a room. Concentrating on a particular room entry and painting it with another color can lead eyes away from other elements and focus on the accented entry instead. Hence, an opportunity to free up space in other aspects of the room.
16. Highlight walls with dynamic wall prints
Cover your living room’s walls with a wallpaper that has running and continuous patterns to establish a bigger feel of space within. While it may seem contrasting to have heavy-textured wallpapers, it produces an opposite visual effect in the room.
Setting up this type of wallpaper can be a trial and error method, you’ll need to find a pattern that you’ll stick with throughout the deal, mix patterns of all sizes and forms, and balanced color picks to achieve a specific type of feel in the room: pastel colors for a calming effect, while bold colors for a vibrant effect.
17. Be in the green zone
Give your living room pure blooms by growing and providing natural greens within the corners, beside or at the back of chairs, and on top of tables. Plants have their own designing charms that can equal the same features of wallpapers with regards to adding comfort, intensity and mood in the room.
18. Put decorations, not the spaces on the limelight
Decorate your living room in a way that visitors will not realize the lack of spaces and restrictions present in the area. For small spaces, the trick is to lead the eyes to the total appeal of the room and away from the discrepancies.
Stack wall arts and mix colors of varying tones on your couches and pillows. Place area rugs of different lengths and a white patterned wallpaper to optimize the overall effect of the color tones and elements in the room.
Apply these design ideas from Revolution as an accepted challenge. Turn small living room spaces into a big table of design innovations to maximize space and come up with flexible styles to make your living room an embodiment of the perfect room.
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