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This post is all about 5 genius ways to make your apartment feel bigger and brighter! We show you how you can achieve a brighter, lighter home.
So, you just moved into your apartment and you’re starting to realize it feels darker and smaller than you had anticipated. We totally understand the struggle of making a small space that doesn’t get a lot of natural light, feel bigger and brighter.
Over the past 5 years, we have lived in apartments of various sizes and layouts and have discovered 5 genius ways to make an apartment fell bigger and brighter.
Bright spaces, filled with sunlight, are the rooms we are instantly drawn to, and want to spend time in. Making your home feel and look brighter is a lot simpler that it may seem!
Having a white, and bright home is all the rage right now, but you don’t have make everything white to achieve a brighter space. These 5 easy changes are ones you can make to create a space that feels brighter.
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5 Genius Ways to Make Your Apartment Feel Bigger and Brighter
1. Change Your Pillows to Brighter, More Neutral Tones
The first way to make your living room or bedroom brighter is to exchange darker colored pillows for white or light, neutral toned pillows. Making this small change will brighten your space and add new texture to your home.
You can even make this change to your bedding. Switching out your bedding with a neutral or white comforter will transform your space more than you think! This will make your space feel light and airy.
Make the switch with some of our favorite pillows, pillow coverings and bedding!
Neutral & Bright Pillows
Neutral and Bright Bedding
2. Paint Your Walls White
Painting your walls white is probably the most dramatic changes you could make to your home. Whether you live in a 500 square foot apartment or a 2,500 square foot home, painting the walls in your house white will make all the difference. It will make your home feel bigger and brighter, as well as, more open and inviting.
Some of our favorite white paint colors for any home are:
3. Paint Your Dark Furniture or Cabinets
Another way to make your space feel brighter, is to paint your furniture or cabinets. This is an inexpensive way to transform older, dark pieces and make them brighter and new. Whether you have a dark, wood coffee table, side table or bookshelves, painting them with a fresh coat of paint will make your space bright and airy.
We love a good DIY project and we recently did this in our own apartment. We moved into an apartment with an office space. The office space had no windows, so we were trying to think of the best ways to brighten up the space and bring more life to the room.
We bought a $15 table on Facebook Marketplace, painted it white with chalk paint and placed it in the room. Not only did we repurpose the dark wood table, but the transformation gave more interest to the space. The office now feels brighter and more welcoming to walk into every day.
Another great idea is painting your dark kitchen cabinets a brighter color. It’s such a simple and easy fix and will leave your kitchen feeling bigger and brighter.
Never underestimate the power of paint in your space! It can transform and revive a once dark room into a beautiful room filled with light!
Some shades of paint we love to brighten up a space are:
Our Favorite Chalk Paint:
Our Favorite Cabinet Paint:
4. Add a Large Mirror on a Wall
Mirrors multiply the light in any room. When you add a mirror to your wall, the light that comes in the room is reflected and bounces throughout the room. Placing a mirror next to a window or a door, where ample amounts of light comes in, can make your room lighter and brighter.
Some mirrors we love are linked below:
5. Decorate Your Home with Plants
Lastly, spring signifies new life and the growth of new plants. One way to add interest, and brighten your home is to decorate your home with plants. Plants make any space feel fresh and full of life. Placing a plant in the corner by a window or sliding door brings the outside in.
Arranging fresh peonies or hydrangeas in a glass vase can make the room full of energy. It’s amazing to see how plants can alter the mood of room!
Some of our favorite indoor plants are:
- Snake Plant
- Pilea Plant
- Monstera Plant
- Small Palm Plant
- Fiddle Leaf Tree
- Succulents
- Peonies
- Hydrangeas
- Olive Trees
Check out how our 7 tips to keep house plants alive here!
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