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How to Make a Small Room Look Bigger With Wallpaper — 9 Tricks That Are Like 'Spatial Sorcery'

Wallpaper is a powerful thing. Like paint, it can completely transform a room by adding color, pattern, and personality when it's needed most. The right design doesn't only have the power to turn dull ...
Lifehacker

You Really Can Use Paint to Make a Room Look Bigger or Smaller

No house or apartment is perfect. Even if it seems perfect when you first move in, your needs will shift over time, and you might wake up one day and realize your bedroom, office, or the living room ...
Yahoo

9 narrow kitchen layout rules – designers say these tricks make your space look wider and function better

Anyone 'blessed' with a compact space will always be looking for ways to make it feel bigger. And this is never more important than in a narrow kitchen, which can be tricky to lay out in a way that is ...
Wall Street Journal

Struggling to Decorate a Narrow Room? 5 Design Pro Strategies

In the series How to Live With a Room You Hate, we ask design pros to solve everyday interior problems. Today, we tackle narrow rooms. ODDLY DIMENSIONED ROOMS can be both harder to decorate and ...

How to choose and hang curtains, according to an interior design expert

Choosing the right curtains makes a room feel taller and adds a sense of completion to a space. Hang them so they just kiss ...
Yahoo

10 paint tricks for low ceilings that will make your room's "fifth wall" feel higher and more impressive

Paint tricks for low ceilings can help make a room feel larger and more open, or more cozy and intimate, without feeling claustrophobic. Just by smartly using color, you can create the illusion of ...