7 Home Improvement Ideas Perfect for Small Houses
Home is your ultimate comfort zone, where most of us spend a large chunk of time. Hence, designing your home with minimalist stuff helps your house look subtle, large, giving you vibrant energy. We’ve come up with a few creative ideas, which will make you flaunt your re-designed house, just by spending a few bucks and time!
After doing intense research on these amazing trivial ideas, that will help your house look spacious. Here are 7 home improvement ideas perfect for small houses. Let’s get started!
#1. Paint your house with cool-toned neutrals
It's no myth that rich colours make your house look smaller. Rich colours like yellow, red and orange, makes rooms appear closer than they actually are.
Hence, avoid painting houses with dark tones. Instead opt for neutral hues, as they give the room a breezy and open look.
Neutrals have always been a great option for walls, but a cool-toned neutral look will enhance the space of your house, making it look big and spacious. It could be a perfect option for small houses in creating the illusion of large space.
Here are a few cool-toned neutrals, which you can consider for your interior walls:
a. Cloud White colour
It’s a cool off-white neutral shade, which will make your room feel light while adding more space to it. It’s a good neutral shade to consider.
b. Sterling
It’s a great option for all small house owners hunting for grey shade. It comprises cool undertone colours, and definitely grey can top the list.
It’s been on trend and is timeless, as this subtle shade will work well in both traditional and modern designed homes.
c. Falling Snow
You can instinctively go with this option for your bedroom. The light blue undertones in the room will help you create a more relaxing space.
The blue tone is known for its tranquillity, and hence will make you feel calm and relaxed. Painting doesn’t require more than a week but will leave you with a lively atmosphere.
#2. Use Wood Trims on the ceiling
Simple wood trim to the ceiling can bring a great impact by creating an illusion of height to the wall. It looks well-designed and adds a flare to the wall.
You can choose different designs based on your preferences like ornate three-piece moulding or plain moulding. Though it costs some bucks and time but is worth spending.
#3. Go with Recessed Track lightings
Definitely, a lit room adds a rich and expansive look to the wall than a dimly lit room.
Undoubtedly, natural light can do wonders to the room, but if that doesn’t work, you can go with the recessed and track lights.
It’s much better to install the recessed lights than to place a few tables and floor lamps all over the room, as it makes the room look much smaller and cluttered.
Here are a few tips to install them:
a. If you want your room to look expensive then you can replace those ceiling lights with tracks and illuminate the light all over your spaces, like work surfaces, shelves, meeting space in a room.
b. In addition to another lighting, you can install the track lighting with them, to make it look more specialized.
c. Just to add more space to the room, you can use recessed lights to drench the walls with light.
d. You can use them for kitchen cabinets as well, as it would brighten your top cabinets, passing a reflection to other rooms.
e. If you have tons of objects or classic masterpieces, you can place the recessed lights 13-18 inches away, to illuminate them.
#4. Install a Skylight
Why go with the complex light when natural light can knock on your door? Installing a skylight can make your room look spacious with an amazing sky view.
Save up some bucks to splurge on these skylights. The silver lining is, you can install it everywhere including bathroom, kitchen, hallway-where natural light is restricted.
It works great for houses having slanted roofs or if you’re planning to get a brand new roof.
Nobody will prefer installing it on an old roof so if you’re an old roof, then you need to reconstruct it. There are tons of added benefits to these skylights, so you can go with them!
#5. Consider a glass shower stall
A small bathroom looks more cluttered and an opaque shower door makes it look much worse.
If you have that, then you need to swap it with a transparent shower door to enhance its look and space.
#6. Hang the drapes or curtains high
The higher your curtains, the taller the wall looks. Just to create the illusion of height and to make it look taller, you need to hang the curtains or drapes high.
You can play with space, with a few tips:
a. If you have moulding in the room, hang them above 5 inches from the window frame and if there's no moulding, consider hanging them above 7 inches, to enhance the view.
b. You can elongate the curtain rods keeping them between 7-13 inches wider, above the width of the window, to enlarge the space of the room.
c. Just to make the wall look taller, you can easily go with the vertical fabric prints as well, say stripes.
d. Hold on to the tall curtains which almost reach your floor. To add a dramatic effect to that, you can have a fabric pool or keep it an inch of space.
#7. Brighten your dark wood floors
Similar to painting your walls with cool-toned hues, you can expand the space of your room by using a lighter coloured floor, as it will amp up the reflection of natural light in the room.
With these tips, you can brighten your dark wood floors:
- Install a new carpet
A new carpet will retail for around $1500. Just to protect the stains from your floor, you can stick with cool-toned or neutral colours.
- Refurnish it with a brighter stain
You can refinish the dark wood floor with brighter stains which will take about a day but will illuminate the room.
- Install laminate flooring
You can install laminate flooring in tons of shades, but the lighter shade will work the best. You can get it done with a professional which will cost you around $2200 or can even do it on your own.
The Takeaway
By doing the right small improvement to your house, you can enlarge the small spaces to big, giving it a rich look.
When you're planning to sell a house, these small improvements could add a bigger price tag to it.
Are you planning to make small improvements to your house? Which tricks are you going to use? Tell us in the comments section below!
Author Bio: Aayushi Khandelwal
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