You can expand a narrow room with fairly simple means, without resorting to construction work. What if you got a room of imperfect proportions? To take them «correction» needed already at the stage of renovation and finishing.
- Elements guiding the eye will help to visually expand a narrow room. «across» space. Flooring that has pronounced stripes, such as laminate or patterned linoleum, is best directed along a short wall or at an angle. Such coverings laid along a long wall will further narrow the room. Another option is to use a solid color covering, for example, carpet, linoleum without a pattern, cork.
- Covering the walls will also help expand a narrow room. Feel free to use a horizontal strip on the end surfaces. Wide stripes and skillfully selected colors help enhance the broadening effect.
- Alternatively, try painting short walls in bright, rich colors, and long ones in neutral ones, or use wallpaper with a subtle pattern on them. This technique will help «squeeze» the room in the right direction, it will become more «square».
- Ceiling beams parallel to the short sides of the room will also help to perceive it differently, visually expand the narrow room. They can be purely decorative, made of plasterboard. This decision is very appropriate in the Mediterranean style of housing design popular today..
- Try to ditch the standard rectangular space. For example, an irregularly shaped suspended ceiling can change the look and expand a narrow room. Painting the walls not with planes but with curly elements will support this effect. But it is better to entrust such complex design options to professional designers..
If you do not plan to do repairs, but you want to visually expand a narrow room, you can use simple and accessible techniques.
- If possible, remove furniture from long walls, do not be afraid to put furnishings across, for example, a wardrobe at the end of a short wall or place furniture against a wall with a window – you can put a desk, this is functionally convenient and allows you to visually expand a narrow room.
- Divide the total volume into functional areas using a rack that is open on both sides and placed perpendicular to a long wall – this technique will allow you to fragment the space and correct unfavorable proportions.
- Play with light. It is better to refuse a standard chandelier in the center of the ceiling. Spotlights placed in the center of the ceiling will help to expand the narrow room, if their light is directed to the walls.
- Hang a picture, a spectacular poster or a large decorative element (for example, a clock with a large dial) on the end wall, this will attract attention, the rest of the walls should be in neutral colors.
