Space is an essential factor buyers look for when choosing a space. When buyers are looking to upsize their home, they might not even look at small homes. The good thing is, there are actually ways to visually enlarge small spaces.
Here are 5 simple and effective ways to increase the visual space of your room according to About Home:
Keep the room clean and tidy
The keys are cleaning and decluttering. Make sure to remove unnecessary furniture that just eats up space. Keep the floor free of any clutter as well as the furniture surfaces. Personal things such as family photos, stuffed toys should also be removed from the view. The smaller the room, the fewer things should be in it to avoid it from looking overcrowded.
Consider a small bed
Position the bed in the middle of the wall opposite the bedroom door. When buyers walk into the room, it should be the first thing they see. But, they don't want it to be the only thing that pops out. When the room is small, a queen size or a full size bed should be used instead of a king size one that takes up a lot of space. A bed too big for a room can visually decrease the square feet visually.
Remove excess furniture
Small rooms should only have night tables and a small chair. Vanities and large dressers should be moved to another room or put into storage to make space for people to walk around as well as avoid traffic by blocking a space with a piece if inessential furniture.
Bring in natural and artificial light
Light can actually trick the eye and create that visual space and make a room look bigger than it actually is. During the day, keep the windows open to let as much natural light in. At night, bedside lamps help achieve the effect as well softens the space.
Decorate with mirrors when possible
This is a very common trick. Mirror reflects light, and light creates visual space. It doesn't consume space and instead doubles it. To avoid a small room from looking like a box, place mirrors on the wall to achieve that through and through effect. Putting mirrors across windows can also help increase the amount of light that gets in the bedroom.
