COLOR IS POWERFUL.

There are many things to consider when picking out colors for your space. “What colors will match my existing furniture? How can I use color to complement the carpet, tile, or wood flooring? Will a lighter color make it more difficult to wipe off the marker, crayon, lipstick, and spaghetti that my toddler will inevitably smear all over my brand new paint job?”

Color is a powerful tool in interior design. It affects your entire experience through a multitude of ways; it can welcome you into a space, calm your nerves, increase your productivity, and even make you feel hungry (see: fast food chains saturating you with the color red). But with just a few design tricks, color placement can be one of the most powerful ways to make your space feel larger or smaller.

Here are two extreme examples of how you can make a back room appear smaller, or much larger. Dark colors shrink the space, while lighter colors expand the space:

tall & Bright

By using lighter colors on the ceiling and floor of a room, you make the room appear taller and brighter. But you don’t have to sacrifice a colorful room like the left example below. You can use a dark, saturated color for the walls of a room and pair it with a lighter ceiling and floor to keep the space looking tall and open.

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