How to increase the room with wallpaper

The choice of finishing materials for repairing a small room is not such a simple business, especially if you want to at least visually increase the room with wallpaper. And here you can not be guided by any one principle of visual expansion of the walls and the rise of the ceilings. In real effect, it is fashionable to achieve the proper effect only when they work in the aggregate of the ratio of colors and the general gamut, proportions and lighting. Interior designers also use some findings that give an additional spatial effect, which is worth talking about in more detail.

Table of contents:

1. Techniques creating the effect of increasing space
2. How do you use wallpaper for visual expansion of the room?
3. Choosing the color scheme of wallpaper
4. How does the texture of the wallpaper affect a spatial perception?
5. Space expansion designers

Techniques creating the effect of increasing space

In modern city apartments, it seems to residents that there is not enough space in a particular room. Traditionally, most deprived of free square meters:

• hallway;
• bedroom;
• nursery;
• kitchen;
• basil.

But in a large apartment or country house there is always a room that is desirable to do more at least visually. The redevelopment is not always effective, especially due to the unification of a room with a narrow balcony, additional meters, forced by furniture and large plants, only clutter this place. When there are too many furniture and small objects in the house, even wallpaper, visually increasing the room, will not help. Yes, and mirrors, traditionally expanding space, will only multiply chaos and mess in any room.

Tip: Use glass shelves and folding furniture, and small items should be sorted and streamlined by placing on racks and shelves.

In the house caused by corps furniture, it always seems that it is close and even not enough air, and in a half -empty and well -cleaned room it even breathes easily. In part, this is not only a sensation, and oxygen absorbs that microflora that lives and actively multiplies in old things. So getting rid of old things is useful not only for the sake of a visual increase in space.

When updating the room, even before making repairs, it is advisable not only to take out old bulky furniture, but also to replace with a new, easier. But when buying new interior items in a small room, it is important to consider:

• general style of the apartment;
• the functionality of the room and its lighting;
• age of living in this room;
• a common color scheme and a shade of wallpaper that increase the space of the room;
• the number of family members, their interests and preferences.

Often, the expansion of space is solved in the most obvious way to remove the pie or partition between adjacent rooms. They are also recommended to be replaced with glass doors, folding stained -glass windows or a transparent wall.

An important role is played by curtains of volumetric multilayer curtains with drapery cut off part of the space. But the transparent tulle seems to dissolve in the air and passes a lot of light and air. And it is also noticed that a large window expands the rooms with any wallpaper.

How do you use wallpaper for visual expansion of the room?

When choosing wallpaper for a small room, it is important to focus not only on the type of wallpaper, but also on the features of the room itself. Typically, the most narrow wall needs the increase in the area, but it can be doubled with mirrors on the adjacent plane, and the room should be pasted over with light wallpaper of a warm gamut.

Blue ceiling wallpapers that increase the space of the room, as if open the sky above their heads. In this case, the reciprocal chandeliers are not used. But this technique is not suitable for people with the fear of open space. But such a ceiling with twigs of blooming sakura or hanging needles in the murals looks very picturesque. Then it turns out not only the effect of expansion of space and the open sky, but also a feeling of proximity to nature is created. The bedroom is also appropriate for the effect of the starry sky on the ceiling.

In a small room, the location of flowers from the bottom up plays a large role. The floors are preferably darker, plain or with a pattern of natural wood. Dark ceilings are always visually hanging, and with light floors there is a feeling of invertedness. This is a special design technique that is appropriate in the vanguard interior or to solve some other artistic problems. Sometimes in a small square room, striped wallpapers are glued on the gender diagonally, and this is also a special creative approach, as if expanding the room.

The combination of wallpaper of such shades or the same color looks original, but differing in texture. However, only a professional interior designer can predict the final result. So you should not experiment, especially when you do not know which wallpaper increase the room visually. But even if there is a desire to try your creative makings, it is better to use classic techniques. For example, dark shades should be in the lower plane or first third of the walls.

A dark large pattern on a light background of wallpaper often looks spectacular only in rolls, and in a small room it is excessively repentant and creates an unnecessary rowan. But rare large flowers on the wallpaper are very effective on only one wall, others should be light, and the background of all rolls of a common shade. Then a large drawing, as it were, pushes this plane further, for example, when large lilies or poppies are drawn behind the head of the bed in the bedroom.

A very large pattern of wallpaper requires sufficient space, otherwise it narrows the walls or, as it were, will break the room into fragments. A light large pattern on a dark background looks elegant and noble. A very spectacular combination of golden pattern on a burgundy background or white and golden curls on blue was often used in palace interiors. The bet on contrast must be made very carefully.

Successful examples of which wallpaper increase the room photo:

Single wallpaper with a jacquard effect, that is, a glossy pattern on a matte background or vice versa, also look good. It is perceived as 2 different colors, while the space is not overloaded with patterns. Thanks to the glare and the high refinement coefficient, the dark color in glossy is always perceived by lighter, even when the wallpaper is black. This technique is widely used in classical and historical style.

It is traditionally believed that striped wallpaper visually lengthen the room, that is, they raise the ceilings and increase the length of the walls. But this does not always turn out, it all depends on the width of the stripes, on frequency and pattern. Large stripes crush the space, and small stripes often create an unpleasant rowan in a small room, especially if this is not justified stylistically. Sometimes the expanding effect has an alternation of segments of striped wallpaper with plain.

An interesting effect can be achieved if you use the photo wallpaper with the 3D effect, when the perspective perspective on one wall leads to nature, and on the other side imitates the door. True, you get a feeling of a passage room, but it will seem much more than in fact. Artistic collages from wallpaper and visual illusions are even more impressive, where a three -dimensional image is moving all the time. However, imaginary and shy people, as well as personalities with mental deviations, such wallpaper are contraindicated.

Choosing the color scheme of wallpaper

If you are interested in how to increase the room, pay attention to the properties of color. The perception of shades for everyone is individual, but there are general principles. For example, the cold part of the spectrum expands the space, the warm bit a little narrows. But this does not apply to very bright shades, which are always perceived as giving space, light and a lot of clean air.

Pale and light shades of yellow, peach, caramel, milk and beige look very comfortable and friendly. They cheer up, stimulate the food tract and cause appetite. And pale green, gray, light blue and silver metallic, on the contrary, suppress appetite, relax, immerse in drowsiness and apathy. They are not recommended for people prone to depression and mood swings. Bright colors, although they help to fight depression and chronic fatigue, but they sometimes overload the nervous system.

Attention: colorful colorful wallpapers are not recommended to glue in the nursery of hyperactive babies, otherwise they will get tired and acting up from themselves, not wanting to sleep or just relax.

Light pastel and transitional tones are an ideal solution for increasing space, especially when there is no need to focus on a pronounced cold or warm part of the spectrum. The greatest effect can be achieved when all the items are in the room of the same color, and the furniture in the room is at least. Such shades are great for this:

• the color of natural sheep wool;
• light sand;
• milk or cream;
• ivory;
• pale yellow;
• pale first-item;
• pale orange;
• beige light;
• light pink;
• shades of light wood, etc.

Light cold shades not only visually expand the space, but also give a feeling of emptiness, sometimes even perceived unfriendly. Therefore, when choosing wallpaper, it is worth listening to the advice of the family and close environment, and not only rely on personal preferences. For example, a lilac or pale purple hue and blue aqua are not pleasant to everyone in the atmosphere. But visually easier to increase the room with just such wallpaper.

Tip: Do not abuse the excess of golden color excess gilding often look and vulgar, as if emphasizing the mercantile interests of the owners of the house.

When choosing the color of the walls, they also focus on where the windows of the room go. If the room is from the south side, then matte wallpaper is used in cold range. Accordingly, when the windows of the room overlook the north, it is better to choose light warm shades with a glossy effect.

It is also taken into account that the color of the wallpaper will differ in day and artificial lighting. For example, pink wallpapers with a lilac shade will seem warmer and dark during the day, and the room is slightly smaller than real dimensions. But in the evening they will be more beautiful and cold, with a blue shade, but such a room looks a little more spacious.

How does the texture of the wallpaper affect a spatial perception?

Brilling and shiny wallpapers always give more light and, as it were, push the walls. It is noted that such an effect is possessed by walls with a pearl effect, Venetian plaster or wallpaper with silkography. The effect can be enhanced by stretch glossy or mirror ceilings. But this works only with light walls, and there should not be many small details in the room, otherwise they will double.

Textured wallpaper with a small pattern is preferable for a small room, and smooth with a small pattern are more suitable for a large room. Beautiful embossed patterns themselves distract attention from the volume of the room, since visual analyzers seem to slip along the intricate lines. In this case, the ceiling must be tone lighter than wallpaper with a pattern that visually increases the room.

When the design of the room is removed in contrasts, in which it is supposed to combine different wallpapers, then the uneven lighting is also taken into account. So, for example, the wall that is most remote from the window looks darker, and in order to balance the proportions, it is better to make it brighter, with an interesting texture. The combination of different textures of wallpaper in one shade always looks more noble than smooth rolls of different colors.

Tip: if during the repair there are catastrophically lack a few rolls of wallpaper, and it is not possible to buy them, use the effect described above, or make an unusual collage from different wallpapers.

You can, for example, cut out of different wallpaper large silhouettes of a male and female face, as if striving for a kiss. Such a romantic plot will look like an art object without a hint of a lack of finishing materials. And such a drawing will also subconsciously distract from real volumes of space.

Do not cross the whole room or hide the lack of wallpaper behind a bulky furniture or morally outdated carpets on the wall. It is better to make an original panel of wallpaper on a central continuous wall without a window or hang a large picture with a perspective, as on the canvases of Levitan or Shishkin. This will expand the space better than another accept. And in the room where the sea theme is appropriate, it is recommended to hang a large picture with endless water expanse against the background of blue or blue wallpapers of blurry shades. This will also visually expand a small room.

Space expansion designers

1. If it was possible to use at least part of these tips, but there is no desired effect, it is worth reconsider your preferences in the style of the premises. Some styles look somehow empty, for example, minimalism. It also involves light space with large windows and a minimum of furniture, and this is the best way to expand the room.

2. Use secret cabinets, sliding screens and partitions, behind which it is easy to hide all the small things that literally absorb the space. Although it seems that it is impractical to cut off a whole piece of already missing square meters, they will help to visually expand the space cleaned of trash. Complete the small room with large or long and narrow mirrors the effect is provided.

3. In a small -sized room, multifunctional furniture such as transformers or samples with folding planes is appropriate. If necessary, it will be possible to remove the countertop, fold the sofa to the most compact state or put the chairs with one-in-one.

4. Wallpaper is a popular way to increase the volume of the room, but it all depends on the drawing itself and the place of its location.