How to Paint a Small Room to Look Larger

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"How to make a small room look larger. Well there's a few tips that I can probably give you there. The darker the color the more cave like the room will appear. But sometimes cave is good so you have to decide maybe you want that comfy, cozy look versus just making the room look larger for any particular reason. Cooler colors, say blues gray-greens, anything on the cool end spectrum are going to make the room look larger where as a red or a dark brown or some warm bright yellow is definitely going to feel like the room is tighter, heavier. The next thing to do is pick a color. You would just go to your color plans. I've got a whole bunch of them. And sort of randomly select a few kind of maybe cool colors. Coolish, that kind of stand out. Neutral also would be good. A light color of course is going to make the room look larger. So maybe even a taupe or something like that. I would stay clear of any intense colors. Intense is going to bring more focus on the walls rather than not. And just select a nice cool color, perhaps, would be the first thing. Mirrors work really well for expanding a room. You can also paint the ceiling the same color or one shade lighter. And then if you've painted the ceiling all the same or very close, one shade lighter, because on the ceiling it's going to look darker as it's in shadow. Or paint the whole room the same that way it's all uniform and just doesn't feel like broken up spaces. Like you have wall color, ceiling color. Another idea to make the room look larger is to paint a sky on your ceiling. If you have the walls painted and you go in and all of a sudden you have this nice beautiful sky it makes the room feel larger. Or simply painting the ceiling a very pale blue will make it feel sky like and again, larger. One last idea I would have because there's a lot of them for painting a small room to look larger, is to extend the paint from the walls onto your ceiling by, say, four inches. You take a ruler, a measurer and your tape and, say, go four inches from the corner of your wall and ceiling meet and go all the way around the room and make a nice tape line. Taking your paint up onto the ceiling and expanding, it will visually make the walls look taller, which will expand the room."