Space in your house is just like money — it seems like you do not always have enough of it. There are a select few who have the luxury of having large properties. Here, they can cram in lots of rooms and spacious floor areas for everyone to enjoy. But for a lot of people out there, it can be a struggle to fit into a home that lacks space. You can embellish it all you want with antimicrobial wall cladding, but at the end of the day, you will crave that extra wiggle room.
Every inch counts if you want extra room for dancing, cooking, or working out. Just look around and you may see areas that you can work on that can help optimize the amount of space in your house.
The Height of It
Building a house starts out with a plan. Here, you should see the layout of the floor area. This will give you an idea of how much space a bed or a couch can occupy in a room. The blueprint is presented in a top-down view, and it also features little details like how much space a swinging door could occupy. It will surely help you to know the layout of the floor early on in the project. This will let you plan out which pieces of furniture or large appliance you should get that would fit well in any area of the house. This perspective does not show one important aspect though, and that is vertical space.
You can occupy lots of vertical space around your home. Walls can have shelves installed above the eye level that you can use for books or decorations. If you have kids, instead of them having their own beds, you can get a multi-decked one, so they can have a larger play area in their room.
Stay in the Corner
When you were a kid, if your mom caught you misbehaving, one of the things that she would ask you to do as a penalty is for you to stand in the corner. This is the epitome of making you suffer because of boredom. But when it comes to maximizing space, corners are a godsend. They are safe places for fragile items like large vases as they do not obstruct the walking areas that much.
There are also a lot of people out there who showcase their prized possessions by placing them right smack at the center of the wall. This will make the spaces from either side free to hold or store anything. Whatever you put in there, later on, it would mean that you would have extra floor space elsewhere.
Slipping It In
Large pieces of furniture like dining tables are large enough for you so slip in and out from its underside. This space is made so you can get yourself closer to the table’s surface so you can eat comfortably. Whenever you are done, that space gets filled when you push the chairs under them. This could be something that you can apply to other large objects around the house. Hollow spaces under beds and couches are great for storing flat or narrow objects.
The Power of Illusion
If you think that there is no other way for you to create space, then you can make an area or room appear larger than they actually are. Mirrors are great for this purpose. They can instantly make space look twice as large. Reducing the number of items in a room could also provide this effect. The lack of objects will have people focus more on the unused space around them, and this can give off that “roomy” vibe.
Even if your house has a modest size, there are many ways for you to create more space. All you need is creativity and clever positioning of your stuff. You can manipulate things so that the overall look and layout of the areas around your home will be to your liking.
