10 Color Tips to Make Your House Look Bigger

How to make a house look bigger?

This is the question many people face.

If you’re experiencing intense mood swings all of a sudden since you have moved to your new home, then probably it’s your room paint that disrupts your mood.

If you are a very open person and usually meet everybody with a smile, then light colors are the best selection for you.

Knowing you would end up in a shady and darkroom by accident then you should start thinking about a paint job.

It will be the best remedy to deal with your mood swings.

A dark and shady place does not disrupt your mood but at the same time gives a very congested look to your room.

You might feel like living in a prison and this might actually can give you nightmares and you’ll become a bad sleeper as well.

The best thing about paints is there are thousands of options your can select from.

For the best reference, it is better to use international standard shade cards RAL or Pantone.

If none of these are available, then just simply ask the supplier if he uses a shade card to help you choose from it.

So if you’re wondering how to make your house look bigger, one should have a wide selection of colors.

If you still can’t decide what to select, here’s our quick guide to make your selection easier.

Light Colors

Light colors room

Light colors are full of life and famous to increase the readability and can be easily recognized if mixed with other colors these colors can create an angelic atmosphere.

There are so many options available when talking about light colors.

You can use them independently or in contrast with the interior color, in any case, they can create a breathtaking memory.

Gloss White

The classic white is good but a newer version gloss white can be used in stripes with classic white on the walls, or maybe just make one wall with stripes and the rest of the room can be painted with the classic white.

White has a unique feeling that it widens the space even if it’s a dark attic.

Lemon

Lemon color room

Lemmon color is another good option to make your room look wider.

If you paint the walls in lemon color with a white roof it will give your place a nice summer look.

It’s also very comforting with a light color of furniture and light color of the interior. This color can also be tried in stripes with white.

Apple Green

A very light apple green color gives an extremely juicy feeling and becomes a permanent comfort even if painted on the walls of a small home.

That will widen away your boundaries and create a green lake effect in a jungle where you can’t find the horizon.

 

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Light Pink

Light pink room

Multiple shades of pink are in use when it comes to girls.

But most of the shades are a bit bright and pungent to the eyes.

If one of those colors is blended nicely with a 50/50 ratio it will turn the Barbie pink into an extremely decent color.

This homogeneous color is best for vacation homes and a white interior can turn your small room into a spacy place.

Beige

The list of decent colors is incomplete with beige. It belongs to the white family and can be used in the same way as white.

Since it’s super cozy and preferred by many elder people, youth normally use the lemon instead.

One can add white roofs with beige color to widen your sight.

Sky Blue

Blue colors walls

It can expand your eyes’ approach when used with the classic white in stripes or in combination with a white roof.

Also, white curtains it could turn your normal roadside home into a perfect beach house.

Light Orange (Or Even Sweet Orange)

This color is not so common but if used in combination with other colors can create a breathtaking effect during nights.

Decorating your home is an art and a proper wall paint color can fill in the blanks left in your home and as a result, turn it into a perfect sanctuary.

But if you are willing to make an effort then the addition of proper room lighting would overextend the limits of your walls.

Cream Color

Cream colors room

Another common choice to show your room spacy could be the cream color.

Though it’s not exactly a summer color people use around the globe in combination with blue and light brown.

Dark Colors

Dark colors

Dark colors are not that bad.

In fact, there are some very beautiful shades in dark.

However, if you painted dark colors in the bedroom that its appeal would disappear very quickly and they just simply go out of fashion very fast.

But still, many people use a wide range of dark colors to make their homes and rooms look bigger and amazing.