Bare walls can quickly make your home look impersonal and uncomfortable. But not everyone has high old building walls or a lot of space next to wall shelves in small rooms. We’ll show you how to hang up pictures to make small rooms appear larger and which trends unfortunately only make your apartment look smaller. 

Hanging Photography in small rooms: Here’s how

The placement and size of images can have a big effect. This can make your home appear both smaller and larger. We usually don’t want to make smaller rooms optically smaller. It is therefore very important that you decide on one or two focus points. This is usually the bed in the bedroom and the television in the living room. The pictures on the walls must now be arranged in such a way that they do not compete too much with this focal point. Instead of covering all the walls with pictures, you should rather limit yourself to one wall. For both high and low walls, viewing height is considered good placement for pictures. More important than the height, however, is which motifs you hang up.

Basically, light colors make small rooms appear larger. Dark antique paintings are therefore more for large rooms. The picture of your choice should tend to be rather light and not too small: Instead of many small pictures, a large framed motif is recommended. But you don’t necessarily have to just use pictures for your wall decoration: mirrors are a good trick to make small rooms appear larger. Instead of a poster, a decorative framed wall mirror can often be a better choice.

The worst thing you can do to a small space is make a mess with your decor. Clutter instantly makes rooms look even smaller – this applies not only to your furniture, but also to your walls. Gallery walls with many different sized pictures are a popular trend, but they are not necessarily suitable for enlarging rooms. If, for example, there are wall shelves or wall-high furniture on the opposite walls, the room quickly looks overloaded. A gallery wall is therefore only an option in small rooms if they are rather sparsely furnished and kept very tidy. Do you still have smaller pictures that you want to place in a small room? Pictures and photos do not necessarily have to be hung on the wall, but can also be placed on shelves or chests of drawers.

More Tips to Make the Room Look Bigger

Of course, your wall decoration is not the only factor that plays a role in the visual impression of size. Overall, you should opt for light colors on the walls. But it doesn’t have to be white everywhere! With this trick, your room will immediately appear larger: Paint the strips on the floor white, while the walls are a little darker, for example in ivory. The walls appear as if they are clearly behind the ledges. Light also plays an important role. It is therefore better to choose transparent curtains instead of heavy, dark variants and place carpets in larger rooms: the freer the floor, the larger the room appears.

Even small rooms can look really classy with the right accessories and furniture: