Designers reveal the small living room mistakes that make spaces feel tighter and offer ideas for how to fix them fast.

These are my small living room design rules. Compact living spaces have to work really hard: they're often the heart of the home, but their limited size can mean that anyone looking for small living ...

BUT WHERE will I put it?” you ask yourself as your heart swells with desire for a painting you’re not even sure will squeeze through your front door. And then the chorus of hoary truisms joins in: “It ...

As well as some clever paint tricks from design experts ...

DOES A SMALL room decorated like a monk’s cell—white walls, sparse furnishings—really seem larger than it would if adorned more luxuriously? No, say design experts. “Fabric, textures—so often people ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. We challenge the old rule that small rooms need small furniture. We’ll show you how to use oversized pieces, ...

Designing a spacious room can be easy; when there’s so much square footage to work with, the possibilities are endless. But when it comes to smaller areas, careful and intentional design is key.

For decades, light neutral shades have been the go-to in small space, but designers swear that going darker in tiny rooms can ...