Ideas, tricks, tips, dos and don’ts to beautify and renovate a small house and make it look bigger with different types of budgets, on a budget or with DIY. Images, projects, examples and photos of houses of 30 40 50 60 70 80 square meters renovated and made more beautiful.
To design, build and furnish a small house, requires a lot of experience and work to make style, design, functionality and spatiality coexist.
To improve it and make it livable and functional at the same time, it is not necessary to have a huge budget, but to know how to exploit it space-saving solutions and adopt small tricks.
How to beautify and renovate a small house
Even small and clever tricks, simple changes can make the difference and completely change the look and impact of the different ones rooms of the house, from kitchen to the living room, from bedroom to the bathroom or house entrance:
- Paint the walls
- Change the curtains
- Take advantage of the heights
- Use the mirrors and glass
- Lighting
- Sliding doors
- Dividers and open space
- Vertical garden
Also read: 10 tricks to enlarge a small kitchen
Beautify a small house with wall colors
One of the tricks it allows to improve a small house is certainly the choice of the White color which amplifies the spaces and gives light.
That’s why for the small spaces we recommend a total white style especially if the house is one attic and therefore you are in an environment characterized by a low ceiling which in different colors could induce a sense of claustrophobia.
If it is a question of old houses with particularly high ceilings but for small surfaces, we can use a dark color for the ceiling and the upper part of the walls in order to restore greater harmony and proportionality to the room or environments.
Beautify a small house with curtains
To buy new curtains allows you to beautify and give a new image to the rooms of the house.
We favor curtains that allow the passage of light, which are simple in geometry and neutral in colors.
The curtains, as well as the walls are an element with a high visual impact and therefore must avoid too dark colors that shrink and darken the spaces.
Beautify a small house by taking advantage of the height
It may interest you: 10 tricks to enlarge a small living room
A small house can be too chaotic for too much furniture in a small space.
So why not take advantage of the heights? In this way we manage to create functional spaces and to free up the clutter in the rooms.
Mezzanine
One idea is the realization of the mezzanine, to be used to store the bed, but also the library or your own study corner, this way you will have the double the floor area.
Full-height shelves
Shelves are also a useful element that allows us to move various objects, ornaments, books upwards, freeing up spaces.
Beautify a house with mirrors and glass
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Insert the mirrors on the walls in the darkest corners, or in the corridors, it allows you to amplify light and spaces, creating the illusion of much larger spaces, thus giving a sense of vastness to an environment that is actually minute.
L’use of glass it allows to separate the rooms from an acoustic and olfactory point of view, but not a visual one, allowing the passage of light and maintaining the open space between the rooms.
How to beautify and make a small house bigger with lights
L’lighting plays a vital role in renovate and beautify a house of a few square meters.
With the mirrors and of glasses we manage to optimize natural lighting, with special solutions we can maintain the effect with artificial lights.
Among the most interesting solutions on the market are the LED beams if we have plasterboard walls, which allow us to illuminate areas of the house with decorative light beams, without having any encumbrance.
Prefer buying flat lamps or led spotlights which, with their thickness of a few centimeters, leave the field of vision free.
Use chandeliers in rare cases such as the lighting of the kitchen table or living room where we can aim for floor lamps.
Beautify a small house with sliding doors
If the budget allows it, we evaluate the replacement of traditional doors with sliding doors, so as not to leave the door encumbrance free and on the contrary we can take advantage of the spaces next to the doors.
The sliding glass doors allow to make the most of natural light.
Beautify a house of a few square meters with furniture and accessories
While for the walls it is advisable to focus on white, for the furniture it is advisable to choose contrasting colors, to give character to the environment and define the style chosen.
Space-saving solutions
Also read our guide on how to furnish a small house.
Beautify the small house by changing the arrangement of the furniture
It seems a contradiction, but in reality this solution amplifies the sense of space in the case of square surfaces, and it is obviously at no cost!
How to embellish a small house with plants
In a house of a few square meters agrees take advantage of every space possible, but dedicating at least one wall to greenery, or to the creation of a vertical garden, is to be considered fundamental.
The green plant instills a state of well-being and has a positive effect on mood, important factors in small environments that are instead gloomy and sad.
How to beautify and renovate a small house with open spaces
If the budget allows it, we evaluate thedemolition of walls especially between the kitchen, the living room and the entrance which reduce the spaces and the passage of light.
Instead, we use transparent partition walls, equipped walls that allow us to divide in an intelligent way.
Things not to do in a small house
When we try to beautify the house we almost always get carried away with the purchase of new decorations, furniture and accessories, and at the same time we do not want to get rid of old things.
Instead one of the secrets is to to sort ed eliminate the superfluous: having less stuff will allow us to arrange objects differently and study new solutions.
Another thing not to do is to buy large furniture. We always think if they are really useful and functional, because bulky furniture will decide the possible opportunities of the remaining space.
See also: furnishing a small house: mistakes to avoid.
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Ideas, tricks, tips, dos and don’ts to beautify and renovate a small house and make it look bigger with different types of budgets, on a budget or with DIY. Images, projects, examples and photos of houses of 30 40 50 60 70 80 square meters renovated and made more beautiful.
To design, build and furnish a small house, requires a lot of experience and work to make style, design, functionality and spatiality coexist.
To improve it and make it livable and functional at the same time, it is not necessary to have a huge budget, but to know how to exploit it space-saving solutions and adopt small tricks.
How to beautify and renovate a small house
Even small and clever tricks, simple changes can make the difference and completely change the look and impact of the different ones rooms of the house, from kitchen to the living room, from bedroom to the bathroom or house entrance:
- Paint the walls
- Change the curtains
- Take advantage of the heights
- Use the mirrors and glass
- Lighting
- Sliding doors
- Dividers and open space
- Vertical garden
Also read: 10 tricks to enlarge a small kitchen
Beautify a small house with wall colors
One of the tricks it allows to improve a small house is certainly the choice of the White color which amplifies the spaces and gives light.
That’s why for the small spaces we recommend a total white style especially if the house is one attic and therefore you are in an environment characterized by a low ceiling which in different colors could induce a sense of claustrophobia.
If it is a question of old houses with particularly high ceilings but for small surfaces, we can use a dark color for the ceiling and the upper part of the walls in order to restore greater harmony and proportionality to the room or environments.
Beautify a small house with curtains
To buy new curtains allows you to beautify and give a new image to the rooms of the house.
We favor curtains that allow the passage of light, which are simple in geometry and neutral in colors.
The curtains, as well as the walls are an element with a high visual impact and therefore must avoid too dark colors that shrink and darken the spaces.
Beautify a small house by taking advantage of the height
It may interest you: 10 tricks to enlarge a small living room
A small house can be too chaotic for too much furniture in a small space.
So why not take advantage of the heights? In this way we manage to create functional spaces and to free up the clutter in the rooms.
Mezzanine
One idea is the realization of the mezzanine, to be used to store the bed, but also the library or your own study corner, this way you will have the double the floor area.
Full-height shelves
Shelves are also a useful element that allows us to move various objects, ornaments, books upwards, freeing up spaces.
Beautify a house with mirrors and glass
Do you want design advice on how to furnish? Join the group
Insert the mirrors on the walls in the darkest corners, or in the corridors, it allows you to amplify light and spaces, creating the illusion of much larger spaces, thus giving a sense of vastness to an environment that is actually minute.
L’use of glass it allows to separate the rooms from an acoustic and olfactory point of view, but not a visual one, allowing the passage of light and maintaining the open space between the rooms.
How to beautify and make a small house bigger with lights
L’lighting plays a vital role in renovate and beautify a house of a few square meters.
With the mirrors and of glasses we manage to optimize natural lighting, with special solutions we can maintain the effect with artificial lights.
Among the most interesting solutions on the market are the LED beams if we have plasterboard walls, which allow us to illuminate areas of the house with decorative light beams, without having any encumbrance.
Prefer buying flat lamps or led spotlights which, with their thickness of a few centimeters, leave the field of vision free.
Use chandeliers in rare cases such as the lighting of the kitchen table or living room where we can aim for floor lamps.
Beautify a small house with sliding doors
If the budget allows it, we evaluate the replacement of traditional doors with sliding doors, so as not to leave the door encumbrance free and on the contrary we can take advantage of the spaces next to the doors.
The sliding glass doors allow to make the most of natural light.
Beautify a house of a few square meters with furniture and accessories
While for the walls it is advisable to focus on white, for the furniture it is advisable to choose contrasting colors, to give character to the environment and define the style chosen.
Space-saving solutions
Also read our guide on how to furnish a small house.
Beautify the small house by changing the arrangement of the furniture
It seems a contradiction, but in reality this solution amplifies the sense of space in the case of square surfaces, and it is obviously at no cost!
How to embellish a small house with plants
In a house of a few square meters agrees take advantage of every space possible, but dedicating at least one wall to greenery, or to the creation of a vertical garden, is to be considered fundamental.
The green plant instills a state of well-being and has a positive effect on mood, important factors in small environments that are instead gloomy and sad.
How to beautify and renovate a small house with open spaces
If the budget allows it, we evaluate thedemolition of walls especially between the kitchen, the living room and the entrance which reduce the spaces and the passage of light.
Instead, we use transparent partition walls, equipped walls that allow us to divide in an intelligent way.
Things not to do in a small house
When we try to beautify the house we almost always get carried away with the purchase of new decorations, furniture and accessories, and at the same time we do not want to get rid of old things.
Instead one of the secrets is to to sort ed eliminate the superfluous: having less stuff will allow us to arrange objects differently and study new solutions.
Another thing not to do is to buy large furniture. We always think if they are really useful and functional, because bulky furniture will decide the possible opportunities of the remaining space.
See also: furnishing a small house: mistakes to avoid.
