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The high price of housing has made it increasingly smaller the size of the flats. Small rooms in which hardly have space to decorate or almost to live. But we want to give you a few tips and tricks to increase the size of a room, even visually. With these small gestures are going to show then you can enlarge these tiny bedrooms and offer a little more scope and visual beauty.

There are different techniques that allow us to create an illusion of more spacious room, a semblance of a size greater than it actually has. These techniques are simple and accessible to all. Revolve around the following elements: walls, furniture, lighting, colors and textures and materials and accessories.

There are different techniques depending on the size of the room that want to expand visually. Some are useful in very small room, while others are more rooms in a larger size of a medium size. In these two types we have grouped sizes, and so we are going to show you.

And we’ll start with the measures for very small rooms. The first thing we look at is the color of the walls. We choose a very light color for the walls, even white. The ceiling should be white. It also uses a light color for the frame and door moldings and windows. Choose shades of the same color as the wall color or very similar. So they will blend with the decor. Also, you should choose a curtain that let you spend as much light as possible.

We exploit and maximize all that natural light entered the room through the window. If the room has no natural light and we have to use artificial light sources, using a uniform light source, avoiding the light and shadow. The living room furniture should be light and no frills. Remember that furniture on feet, feet visible, give an impression more air and provide a greater sense of space.

If your room is of average size, not too small, it allows you more flexibility in decorating. It gives us more options. For example, when choosing the color of the paint on the walls, you have a wider range of colors, not only very light colors or white. You should certainly choose. While there will always be pale colors or pastel type cameo. You can also choose the option of placing wallpaper. In that case, you can choose light-colored or with small motifs.

The ceiling should remain white, as happened in the smaller rooms. For the curtains, however, may have colors identical to those on the walls, or a little more obscured, but following the same tones of the wall. You can also choose a color the same as the reasons for the wallpaper.

In a general way, be aware that there are some materials that favor more than others the sense of space: the pale wood of beech or pine, metal, mirrors, satin fabrics, glass … You can opt for this type of material When buying new objects for interior decoration.

When we have more than one floor in the house and want a good space saving option is the spiral staircase as well as being very beautiful occupy less space than those stairs that covers half of our living room.

The spiral staircase has the great virtue of occupying a small space does not occupy more than one square meter, the site will occupy the ladder so you can measure by multiplying the width of the steps.

A spiral staircase would not be the best choice in a classic and very refined, though no doubt when it comes to saving space this is an excellent choice in another type of environment because you can win instead, admits the transition from light through the steps which a fee is more than light in the house itself is very small and this effect did not get with a regular ladder for example.

These are people allow placement in any square or circular hole of any size.

In the choice of material is the most varied of the wood. It is a natural and warm, the wood can combine metal, concrete and stone etc.

A good ladder should combine technical, functionality and creativity in addition to harmonize with the space where it will be installed in either case at the time of decorating is important that the elements combine with each other.

The wrought iron furniture has been displaced in many instances the terraces and exterior decoration only. However, this habit may not call into question the versatility of this furniture and interiors that are suitable to any decorative style: classic, modern or rustic, and are ultimately merge easily movable and can be located in all rooms the home, bathrooms, bedrooms, in the living room, hall, dining …

Both rooms use in indoor and outdoor areas, the wrought iron and furniture that are still active in decorative practice. From chairs, tables, mirrors, cabinets, lamps … all the furniture in our home is likely to be developed with the material, while the market offers a wide range of colors and finishes for not limiting the decoration. Additionally, you can find spare time, usually in green or black, at very attractive prices, to give the room’s vintage look.

In interior spaces, if you combine the forged iron furniture and other various materials and shapes will achieve a modern look in the room with warm colors and textiles of low diversity of materials will recreate a rustic room, if they are dark iron and textiles combined with pure colors are white and a more classic shape.

In order to maximize their decorative function, the forge can be combined with glass or stone.
Imagine a coffee table glass and iron for the classroom or iron furniture with marble top bath. We can also get a romance in the bedroom, where it deployed a four-poster iron bed.

The exterior decoration is inevitable not to have the elegance of a classic, chairs and tables painted white to match the green plants and colorful flowers in the garden, terrace and porch. Another option is to decorate these areas suitable furnishings and dark iron forge that brings nobility to the scene, two alternatives that provide a distinctive touch and inviting to spend hours enjoying breakfast or reading the outside area or dine in the company, especially during the warmer seasons.

The great advantage of this material is that is very durable, although it is advisable to keep a coat of paint every two years antioxidants, in order to ensure full protection of external agents. Another of the advantages is that it offers the possibility to design the furniture according to your own tastes and preferences.

Investing in quality furniture can be a large investment; it can be the largest investment after the purchase of your home and car. I know you don’t think twice about properly maintaining your car and keeping your house up to date by painting and replacing worn floors so why wouldn’t you give your furniture the same care?

Your furniture gets used quite a bit, especially if you have parties and get-together like we do in addition to having teenagers. You can make your furniture last much longer if you adhere to some of the suggestions we will give you here.

The first thing should be a no-brainer, Keep your furniture clean! I know, it should be obvious but this is one of the leading causes of furniture looking bad and breaking down. Vacuum cloth furniture on a regular basis. If you have furniture constructed of leather, wipe it down with a good leather treatment product and keep your wood furniture looking new by keeping it polished with good wood oil.

If your furniture is already worn, there are still some steps you can take to restore it. This is especially easy with wood furniture, as you have several options. First you can strip the furniture down, sand it and repaint it and totally change the entire look of the piece of furniture. Another option is to paint it. You can just paint it a flat color or you can choose a custom paint finish or if you are a little creative you can paint a theme on it. I painted my son’s furniture with surf scenes since he is all into surfing.

For minor scratches, one trick is to simply get wax crayons that are similar in color to fill in the cracks, or even shoe polish works sometimes.
With upholstered furniture you can easily renew them by just having them reupholstered and get a completely new look in the process.

This is another good argument for buying quality furniture. There is not point spending the money on reupholstering cheap furniture that is not built properly. If you look at some of the furniture like your grandparents probably still have, you know what I mean. They may have a couch that they have had for fifty years!

And yet another way to revive tired looking furniture is to simply move your room around or switch the rooms that your furniture is in. Take the armchair that has been in your living room since you bought the house and move it to the bedroom. Take the unused chair in the spare room and move it by the front door. Simple changes like this will help you cycle your furniture from heavy use areas to light use areas, which will help maintain their life, and will help you enjoy them as if they were new.