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Dear Alice | Interior Design

7 Tips to Transform a Small Space (and Make It Seem Bigger)

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

We all have a space that we want to feel roomier. These are some tricks of the trade to create the illusion of a larger space. Everybody’s had a small space before. That starter home or rented space, a dorm room, first apartment, so we have a lot of space expanding tips we want to get into today. Sue tells about what she has done with color in her own home to make the room feel larger by treating the whole room in a uniform colored manner. You’re going to use bigger things than you think you will to make your room look really generous, such as a large rug, lamp, or large art, but make sure to avoid sticking everything up on stilts as too many legs can make your room feel nervous. Color 2:51 Changing the color on the ceiling 9:01 Scale 12:00 Lamps 19:36 Mirrors 21:34 Chandelier 25:21 “So depending on the size of your room, like in the old days the bedrooms were 10x10, right? Nobody’s gonna have a living room this size, but I was gonna say just for the sake of this podcast we’ll say your room is 10x10, I would still get an 8x10 rug. So go big. Do not get a 5x7.” 14:16 https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity News Letter: https://manage.kmail-lists.com/subscriptions/subscribe?a=HZENWY&g=PFcqV5 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.

0:22.1

Hello everyone and welcome to Dear Alice.

0:25.6

Today we've got a good one for you.

0:27.4

We are talking about how to make small spaces seem bigger.

0:31.5

Yes.

0:32.5

Everybody's had a small space before, that starter home, that rented space, you know, it can

0:38.8

be anything, honestly, dorm room, on up to your first apartment.

0:45.3

So we have a lot of space expanding tricks we're going to talk about today, yep, and get

0:50.2

into.

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