How to make small space look larger (ideas :-)!!!

For most of all, space in our home is usually restricted. Unless you live in a house that is a Mansion and Villa, I think you too need to manage with whatever space you have. I prefer to use the areas in my home strategically than to live in a mansion that will make me spend more on cleaning and managing a larger space. Sometimes, we just need to give refreshing change or I would say facelift and makeover to whatever room and space we have. Here are some of popular and not so popular methods to make a room look larger than it really is!!

1. Create a Focal point in the room :

Creating a focal point in a room is great as it makes our eyes stuck to the certain part or point of a room. 

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You can play with prints and patterns in a wall, or place only one furniture, chest or cupboard that is a statement in itself. 

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This will trick the eyes of the persons entering into the room and attention won't be on the tight space. 

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You can even place a soothing or eye catching artwork to fake a view or distract from architectural flaws.

2. Give your window some Treatments:

Hanging Curtains and rods in the window from the ceiling to the floor will make a room look larger. 

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Matching the color of curtain and drapes with wall color will only add to its enlargement. So keep matchy matchy in tight space.

For more precise look, please have a look on the image below by apartment therapy that i fell in love with. Always hang curatins wider in width even for small width windows in a tight space and from ceiling to floor to make the room appear larger.

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3. Choose Glass or Lucite Furnishing

It may seem costly to many but placing furniture, specially a table made of glass or Lucite will make the room larger as they will disappear when looked in a room with other things.

Can you notice the lucite dining table in the image below. You almost didn't notice it in a group right ?

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These furnitures just disappears when looked with other things.

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4. Give your walls some Stripes Treatment:

Giving walls and floors stripe treatment is budget friendly and will make a room feel larger. 

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Place a rug with stripe pattern, in a room or in staircase, this is a simple trick.

5. Mirrors are always a hit

Everything made from glass in a room, it will make a room appear larger. Decorating with Mirrors make a room look spacious. 

Let Mirrors shine in almirahs or just let it be an art itself. This is one of the cheapest ways to maximize a small room, or just to feel it's been maximized.

6. Choose items with functionality

Choose furnishings and decorative items that offer maximum functionality in minimal space. We should use two small round tables instead of one big coffee table which are easier to move around.

Thankx for the read and I hope this post selects some of the major changes with little efforts in a tight space that needs attention. We all need some ideas isn't it? :-)

Urban Chic meets Country laid back !

Many times in my casual day, I feel like I need a getaway. To whichever place nearby that will save me from hectic sounds and errands of the city life. Though where I live is quite a town rather than a City actually, I still feel I should escape in countryside once a while. But again!! It's not always possible to make it being a full time job holder and a MOM!! There are many times when I need to be laid back rather of hustling and bustling around. That's why creating a space/corner in our home to give a look of a country home or making some possible changes in home decor is what I will love to prefer.

Now you got my point what this post is all about ! :-) An urban or semi urban home with a country feel and appeal is truly possible in our everyday life which is of course, in Budget :-). How? Here we go: 

Decor Tip 1: Wood and Jute are the ultimate idea.

Use Raw and unpolished wood if you want to get total country look. It can be used in ceiling, floor, table, chairs and even in doors and windows. Just leave the wood as they are inside your home and accessorize accordingly. Soothing Paint colors like Grey, Aqua and Off white; using Jut rugs are one of the best options for giving country feel in the home. Plus point ? These accessories don't need High Maintenance that of lavish carpets and rugs and are eco friendly.

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These chairs have given the overall look of the room a soft and laid back impact.

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A well designed simple wooden counter for bathroom

                                  

                       

Decor Tip 2: Think Out of the Box and Re purpose.

These are what I am addicted to and always prefer to do for almost anything in the home. And that's appreciated too. Re purposing old stuffs in the house (if some of them are ancient, glam factor is even high Remember!) can make a home little laid back and soothing to your eyes. Old Baskets and Almirah, Cupboards, table, stair unused, and even suitcases!! Everything has it's After life! So, It makes sense why it's been used to give a feel of a country home decor.

An Wood crate used as table and nick nacks !!

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Very smart use of an stray table

Creative Use of old Wooden gate

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Decor Tip 3: Subtle Cotton, Linen covers can spark up a country home decor.  

If you are choosy about fabrics like Velvet and Chiffon, Don't use it to get laid back attitude of country home decor as these have very rich appeal and vibe. To make yourself in a soothing and not so High end ambience of country home decor, you need to choose materials and throws in cotton, linen, jut that are more cozy vibe than that of velvet. Use them as table runner, mat, rugs and in cover of almost anything. :-) Play with prints instead.

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Decor Tip 4: Leave the wall simple and plain for country home decor. 

Walls in white and grey is a plain canvas in itself. For a cozy country home decor, never choose a wall colors in bright hues because we only need calm colors here to go with the country vibe and blend with simple accessories. 

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Home is the place to unwind and relax. The place to get the feeling of there is STILL so many things in life to feel CALM for. A Home decor in country vibe can make you feel exactly the same. To Let go!! That's what we all need, Isn't it!! Stop, Relax and Just Let Go! 

How to organize our home on daily basis : It's Easy!

Lorie Marrero is the best-selling author of The Clutter Diet: The Skinny on Organizing Your Home and Taking Control of Your Life, the spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International, and the creator of ClutterDiet.com, an innovative online membership program that's provided affordable professional organizing advice to thousands of people in eighteen countries. I've included some of her valuable advices in my post before and this time, here is what she says about daily basis organizing ideas that makes long term effect in the personal and household grooming.

Brush your teeth once a month, sixty times, and then you don't have to worry about it every day! That won't work? The same reasoning applies to cleaning, organizing, and maintaining your home. It's a little silly to save up all of your cleaning, maintaining, and organizing for one giant project. Here are some small things we can do regularly to keep things working well all the time.

Closets: 

• Each day, hang up everything and put away clean laundry. 
• Put your shoes back in their places, straighten stacks, and have a regular habit of bringing empty hangers back to the laundry room. 
• Remove clothing along the way as you decide to donate it, and put it in your "Donation Station," using a paper shopping bag or box to gather those items for Goodwill. 
• Twice a year when you organize and change out seasonal clothing, these habits will keep everything more visible and manageable when you are ready to do a bigger project.

Garages:

• Break down cardboard boxes, manage your recycling and trash, sweep excess leaves and dirt to keep them from tracking into the house, and keep a path cleared between the car and the door.
• Return sports equipment, chairs, and bikes to their racks and shelves. 
• And each time you fill up with gas, empty the trash from your car right there at the gas pump!

Pantries: 

• Each time you return from the grocery store and put food away, stop and straighten up what's there. 
• Move cans and boxes for greater visibility, throw away containers with only a few crumbs left, and check for moldy bread and stale chips. 
• Reclose cereal cartons and cracker boxes that your family has left open, and remove excess packaging from large warehouse purchases like soft drinks, paper towels, and snack foods.

Entry and Exit Doors: 

• Take shoes back to bedroom closets, put errand items in your car, and clear out mail and papers. 
• Hang up coats, put dirty socks in the laundry room, and get the kids to handle their odds-and-ends of toys and school items once a week.

What we always forget : Hard work is often the easy work we did not do at the proper time. 

So What other little things could you do regularly to save yourself lots of time and effort later? Share your valuable comments with me. 

How do you manage and declutter Jwellery ?

For me, getting ready means a job of 7-10 minutes but this too seems quite uneasy many times when I am stuck into those tangled jwelleries, earrings and studs that i never wear actually and are there for many years. Thus it's my inner urge for managing my so called vanity area these days which compelled me for this post. While there are many ideas in Pinterest and internet as a whole but here are some of them which actually appealed to me i think these are good enough to share. So, here we go for How to manage jwelleries.

# Mirrors are used for hanging chains, beaded necklaces and many more since ages. I've too witnessed it since my childhood. So, it's definitely the easiest option to try for those abandoned and tangled chains and necklaces. If you are bored with mirrors, try with some portrait or family photo that you like.

# Teacups and Saucers are the best bet for danglers, earrings and even necklaces. Earrings can be hanged onto cup while necklaces can rest in saucers. Beautiful ! You can even stack pins and other less necessary stuffs inside the cups.

# Have an old rake around your garden area ? Paint it in color of your choice and hang on the wall; and let all your necklaces, chain have safe home in it as it can hold many items at once. Even Bracelets !!

# Or, Choose those beautiful wall hangers available in low budget which will hold as many items as you want.

                                     

# Drawers are always the safest and easiest way to manage all the items you need in rush hour at once. It's handy and we all have drawers at any of our closets, Right !! No need of extra expenses. Just make them separate with partition, even cardboard will make perfect partition for different items.

# Repurpose with hangers you have for all your tangled chains and necklaces.

# Doors are another closet which we should not forget storage wise. Hence use it for managing your jwelleries by getting a hanger fixed in the doors or even with DIY ones.

# If you can, dedicate a wall or corner of your room to manage jwelleries. How ?? Like this in the image below.

# Repurpose your everyday items in a way that caters to your need. How about using old stuffs for storing and decluttering jwelleries !!

A Cage used for holding earings and danglers. Perfect !

Don't throw away those used crates of chocolates, eggs, cookies. It can stack whatever you want to.

Cake stand and Racket us%d for jwelleries

Drawers used as cabinets for jwelleries.

Old Grater used as earrings holder. Simple !!

You can always share what you have or want to with jwelleries here through comments. Have a happy time.