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Design Tricks for Tricky Rooms
By Jennifer Bertrand 7 expert tips for making the most of challenging spaces
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then have all of the elements in the space all be lighter colors. Or, you can add reflective elements into the room by playing with sheens. Lacquering furniture in a high gloss or playing with metals can be really fun! Or if you feel really brave, lacquer those walls for a yummy look! No Wall Space If your wall space is limited due to windows or vents or architectural elements, try playing with textures and sculptural items within 5
allows your eyeballs to keep going instead of stopping when they reach the ceiling, visually increasing the wall height. Small Rooms I actually find the hardest part of a small space for people is having restraint. Because sometimes when we don’t know what to do, we keep adding stuff to a room until it hurts our eyes and feels so busy. In a small room, it’s really great to play with tones of a color. That means pick a color and do a few shades of it throughout the space. For a green room, I would do a hunter green, a palm green, and a chartreuse. Or with a gray you would have a charcoal gray, a pewter gray, and a whisper gray. Find the color that makes your heart happy and go to town! No Natural Light There is an old school thought that says you can solve natural light problems with a mirror. This is still correct; however, there are other options. I love to reverse light into a space. This means paint the room a deeper color and 4 3
ellooo everyone! Do you have a room that for one reason or another seems impossible? Let’s chat about some common room issues and how to solve them. Large Rooms Usually, the common offender in large spac- es is that the foundation of the design is wrong. What does that mean, you ask? It’s all about the floor plan. Often people are scared to have multiple seating zones within one large space, but think about creating conversation areas. Think about your family and how you will use a space, because the biggest offender is a space that looks good but you don’t really use it. Low Ceiling Height There are quite a few solutions for low ceiling height! The easiest fix is to lessen the contrast between your wall color and your ceil- ing color. My favorite thing to do is to wrap the wall color onto the ceiling. And if it’s a heavy color you can do it 30 percent lighter. Crazy sounding right? Not at all. Continuous color 2 1
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