The tendency towards diaphanous life continues. Often, the kitchen, the dining room and the room merge with each other. You can also live in a study, where everything takes place in a single room. So how to create separate areas? Putting walls is not usually an option, since it only remains light and space and does everything a little convoluted. The solution? The environments of environments. And they do not have to be the classic screens, even if they are flexible, functional and very attractive. The curtains can also be used as separators of textile environments to delimit the desired areas if necessary, and can also be striking with a stamped fabric, if that is what you want, of course. A stable option, on the other hand, would be the high shelves that not only separate rooms, but also create additional storage space.
Get a small room to look larger
Either with light, color or mirrors, there are some tricks for the rooms to seem larger. Our interior design experts give some advice.
Light in small rooms
Another trick for a small room to seem larger is to provide enough light. Antonius Schimmelbusch recommends providing several levels of light, that is, working with wall appliques, table lamps and foot lamps at different heights. «The eye travels from one source of light to another, and the longer this trip will last, the bigger the room will look like.» The goal? «That you just have to light the ceiling light when the bunch of keys is sought,» they both say. Freytag also advises the large central roof lamps. «The cozy atmosphere is created by a mixture of many small light sources, not the bright roof. Design a concept of lighting at eye height.»
Intelligent wall design
The general rule in a small room is that the light colors visually enlarges the rooms. This is true, since light colors such as white, beige or gray create a feeling of open and bright space. The same goes for monochromatic combinations, which make transitions disappear as if by magic. However, this does not mean that, by having a small room, you have to automatically opt for a light color on the walls or a look tone on tone «The smaller the room, the darker the color can be in our eyes,» says Antonius Schimmelbusch. «A room bathed in gray or smoked coffee, dark blue or forest green is wonderfully cozy, suggests depth and, therefore, seems bigger. And if you want, you can also paint the roof to get the definitive effect.»