What to do to make a dark room look taller and bigger?

Answer 1

If you are using a light color paint, you should paint your ceiling the same color as the walls. This allows the ceiling to "disappear" and make the walls seem to continue on up rather than be chopped off by a white ceiling.

As for furniture, you don't have to remove a lot of furniture. An empty room will actually look smaller than one with properly scaled pieces. Find chairs or sofas with lower profile backs to help make your walls seem taller. If you can, arrange furniture on a diagonal, rather than lined up against the walls. This expands the look of the room as well.

Hang window treatments from floor to ceiling. This makes your windows, and hence your walls, seem taller. Good luck with it!

Answer 2

Add a big mirror in the wall. Have you ever walked into a restaurant or bar and saw lots of mirrors in the wall? That's a frequently used trick to led people into believing that the place is bigger than what actually is.

Now for the second part of your question. to make a place look taller, you would have to raise the ceiling. Also another common trick to make a smaller place look bigger and taller.

Answer 3

More information about the room would make this question easier to answer, but I'll give it a try.

Get rid of any acoustic tiles or popcorn on the ceiling, make sure it is smooth, not textured. Paint the ceiling and the top 8 inches of the walls a pale colour. Install a brightly painted picture rail at the bottom of this pale colour. Paint the rest of the walls a medium-light colour. Put sunwashed land- or sea-scapes in wide frames next to the windows. Paint the windowframes and the pictureframes the same colour. This can be the same or different from the colour of the picture rail. Keep furniture to a minimum, pale colours, with bright accent pillows, lampshades, and area rug. Try to have a bare floor (tile, hardwood, or even linoleum) under the area rug. If this is a sitting room, have end tables, but no central coffee table. If it is a bedroom, have light-coloured linens on the bed.

These are just some ideas. I'm curious, so I hope you'll send me a message about what you end up actually doing.

Answer 4

light colors
spread the stuff all over the room, little by little. dont crowd it all in one area.

Answer 5

you have to put very high wattage bulbs in the sockets to make the room appear brighter and larger

Answer 6

paint the cealing white and maybe put mirrors on the walls opposite the windows. there are many optical illusions like this that can help, also vertical strips and floor to cealing curtains

Answer 7

Paint the walls and ceiling in contrasting colors, with the ceiling darker. Use tall and narrow furnishings. Keep the room as empty as possible, clutter makes a room look smaller. And incorporate vertical stripes when not hideous.

Answer 8

Light colors look bigger than dark colors, so repainting would help. Also, make sure that you keep stuff off the walls and try to keep the furniture to a minimum. The more stuff on the walls and in the room, the smaller the room looks. The arrangement of the furniture might also make a difference. Also, mirrors make a room look bigger.

Answer 9

Paint it either a lighter or dark color walls & ceiling.
I've read painting it all a darker color makes it look bigger.

Answer 10

Light colors will make the room seem bigger. Mirrors will also help. To reflect light around the room. Art and posters on the all will make the walls seem taller.