Optical Illusion to Expand Living Room with Minimal Effort

Proper distribution, correct use of color, playing with volumes and forms... These techniques visible only to a decorator's eye create the perception of greater volume and size.

INCREASE CEILING HEIGHT

If the living room is small but has high ceilings, this is an advantage to make it appear larger. In any case, optical illusion allows you to visually widen the ceiling and floor. To do this, use vertical lines. Ribbed or slate cladding, moldings creating elongated and narrow and rectangular shapes, thin suspended lamps that draw lines with their cables...

WINDOWS AND VIEWS

If you have open views, let them be clearly visible from the living room. You will feel that the wall limiting space disappears. Therefore, this is also a great way to create an optical illusion of transparency achieved with large windows. Remember: create a pavilion with L-shaped glass and expand the glazed area, and you'll have a comfortable small living room.

LIGHT TONES PREDOMINATE

White is the brightest and most reflective color. But also neutral and soft tones are best because their perception is not saturated, making the brain feel more spacious in the room. Thus, you can also play with optical illusions through color. Choose most voluminous furniture in a small room in light tones.

WIDE WALL DECORATION

Create an optical illusion of space on the main wall of the living room. For this, it's important to choose decoration properly. Select a large XXL-sized canvas or a composition of several medium sheets, but occupying most of the wall from edge to edge of the sofa length. If you 'extend' elements decorating the partition, you will horizontally expand the front part.

REMOVE PARTITIONS

A very realistic optical illusion is achieved by removing partitions. This opens the living room into an adjacent room if it's small. By eliminating visual barriers dividing space, you gain continuity and expand it. Meters seem more uniform even if you get only a few centimeters of real usage.

REPLACE WALLS WITH GLASS DIVIDERS

If you don't want to remove partitions, choose magical and aesthetically pleasing glass interior dividers. The more surface area of glass, the better. But use them wisely to avoid losing spatial support. Perhaps it's better to create a solid wall at mid-height and place the divider above. There's no point in glass covering to floor level just to see the back of furniture.