If you have a room that you’d rather use more often, but find it too cramped to be a very good space for hosting guests, there are several opportunities that you can pursue.
One of the most efficient, least invasive ways of opening up a room, short of knocking down a wall, is to beautify it with a variety of mirrors. Generally, you can add about twice the space to a room, visually at least, by putting in mirrors, and that’s more than painting walls a lighter shade can achieve.
Your first idea might be to hang mirrors on your walls, but you can also approach the decorative task from other angles and use mirrors more creatively. Consider putting a large mirror on your table top and putting some vases and dried flowers on top of your mirrored table for a new decorative look for your room.
You can also improve your room’s look by hanging wall mirrors of various kinds on the walls, and you might want to choose mirrors of various shapes and sizes for variety. An entranceway mirror can be a good location to hang your keys or to place your coat so that you’ll have both handy whenever you have to go outdoors.
When you prop a tall mirror, one that stands about as tall as you are, against your wall, your room will suddenly seem to have grown vastly in area. Locate a mirror across the room from a piece of art that you’ve hung on a wall and allow the mirror to reflect the artwork on the other side of the room for added beauty.
Reflect on round wall mirrors for your room because they will add yet more visual variety to the area and contrast nicely with the room’s squared-off angles. Not only will you achieve added visual variety by grouping together various sized and shaped mirrors, but you can also use contrasting frames for added visual appeal.
If you’d prefer to try a more creative approach, create an assemblage of different sorts of mirrors, old ones and new ones, and use the different textures to add variety to your room. A mirror that functions as the focal point of the room should not get any competition from smaller mirrors stationed too close to it.
Make your room flicker with soft light when you place a mirror against the back wall of an unused fireplace and set up candles in front of it for a colorful effect. You might want to make the best possible use of windows that are in your room and position a mirror or mirrors across from them, where they can best reflect light coming in.
With optimal choices of mirrors and a little bit of decorative savvy, you can transform your cluttered space into a much more inviting environment.