So you didn't end up with that old Victorian house you always dreamed of. For a number of practical reasons, you live in a small ranch instead. But you don't have to give up your vision for your home. You can decorate your small home to give it the illusion of a larger space. Visually raising the ceiling is a good place to begin.
Instructions
1. Stripe the walls. Use vertical stripes, which draw the eyes up, to decorate your small home. When you decorate with stripes on the walls, the walls appear taller, so the ceiling looks higher. You can use wallpaper or paint to add vertical stripes to the walls.
2. Add height to windows. Windows add horizontal lines to the walls, which make them look shorter. You can make the ceiling in your small home look higher by counteracting those horizontal lines with more vertical lines. When you decorate the windows with drapes, hang the rods higher than the windows. This increases the vertical pull of the windows.
3. Flatten the ceiling. Any protrusion from the ceiling takes away from the visual height in your small home. Refinish the ceiling with flat paint, eliminating any sand paint or decorative plaster that currently hangs from the ceiling. Tear out any decoration that hangs from the ceiling, including fabric swags and plaster medallions.
4. Decorate with tall, narrow furniture to add vertical lines to your room. Vertical lines fool the eye into thinking the ceiling is higher than it is. Choose mission-style pieces that incorporate vertical lines in their design or Early American furniture with tall posts and spindles.
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