Making Small Spaces Look Big

Make Choices for More Room
Some people live in a small apartment because that's all they can afford, and they're grateful for it.
Some people live in a small apartment or home because they're tired of taking care of a larger place and want to "downsize."
Others just don't want a large home. Small is beautiful! And easy, and practical, too!
But no matter what your reason for living in a small space, you'll undoubtedly have to make some compromises in your decorating, get really organized, and make some adjustments to your lifestyle in order to make everything fit and not feel cramped.
If you're looking for a cozy, intimate space, you're in luck. By using soft, snuggly upholstered pieces, dark, warm tones, and dramatic lighting, your tiny corner can become a wonderful private space.
But if you really feel the need to stretch out in your small space, you can make some decorating changes to make the area look and feel larger without moving any walls! With color, furniture arranging, and interesting lighting, your space won't feel so cramped.
See if some of our tips will work for your small space.
Clear Out the Clutter
There's nothing that makes a small space feel cramped more than having too much stuff.

Work out ways to get collections out of view, organized behind doors, table skirts, or on shelves. With things neatly arranged and out of sight, the space that is in view will feel orderly and open.

Open the Way
With furniture and accessories blocking the view into a room and out to open spaces, a room will look cramped. By moving furniture out and away from walkways, you'll open up the space and make it feel larger. You can also choose short pieces of furniture like an ottoman, an armless, open chair, or a low table, and place large, tall pieces along a wall rather than out in the open space. If you can see the floor, the room will look larger.

Chooser Soft, Light Hues
Whereas dark, warm colors make a space feel cozy and intimate, light, cool colors make a space feel open and airy. For optimum effect, select soft tones of blues and greens.

Use a Monochromatic Color Scheme
Choose colors that are in the same color family and use tone-on-tone woven upholstery fabrics, textured wall finishes, delicate tonal drapery fabrics. Cool colors and delicate warm colors on most surfaces give the room a more open look.
Coordinate Wall and Furniture Colors
Contrasting colors tend to break up a space. Pieces of furniture are less interrupting and tend to blend with the space if they're colored to match the wall color.
Let in the Light
Any room will look larger if it's well-lit, either by natural light or artificial lighting. Get rid of heavy draperies and open up the windows to let the light of the outdoors into the space. Add more lamps or install track lighting or recessed lighting.

Wine Coolers

The wine storage cooler is not a single invention, but rather a line of different coolers which have the general purpose of keeping wine at a proper temperature. Where wine is concerned, the two greatest enemies to great taste are light and heat. Both light and heat can destroy important elements to wine which not only give it its distinctive flavor and aroma, but make it truly wine. Otherwise, should a bottle of vino go bad, it can turn to vinegar, or even a sort of swill with no name in common polite parlance which would make even the cheapest and most poorly-made wines blush in embarrassment.

For these reasons, a wine storage cooler that is worth its salt will allow very little or even absolutely no light to pass through to the bottle(s) that it is protecting. Yet temperature too, is important. A wine cooling container will tend to cool in one of two ways: passively or actively. A passive system simply cools by verity of its construction. Usually the walls of the storage container will be lined with Styrofoam or even of one of many newer, so-called space-age materials which may have been developed by NASA, The European Space Union, or some such similar organization.

The active wine storage cooler, on the other hand, incorporates the liner features of the passive cooler along with a refrigeration system to bring the temperatures even further down. This is especially helpful with white wine lovers as keeping whites cold is important to good taste. A small cooler designed to hold but one or two bottles, incidentally, is perfect for picnics and little outings into the countryside. These wine coolers can be found at places that sell fine wine and other accessories. Do a search on the internet to quickly find distributers and retailers of the wine cooler you have in mind. You would be amazed at how quickly you could order your ideal wine cooler. They are that simple to find.