Creative ways to brighten a Dark Room

Brightening a dark room is always a challenge. If one has a smaller space and if that space is covered with dark colours or furniture, it makes the room look smaller. The room appears to be clumsy and small. One doesn’t really know what to add or deduct from your room. To make it look more subtle and bright. Thankfully, there are many easy tips and tricks that can help brighten up your room and make it brighter abode.

Some basic ideas to brighten your kitchen, bedroom or living room are:

1. Placing mirror near light sources

It is an old idea of placing mirror near source lights or natural lighting. This automatically expands the visual space and makes a dark room bright. To make the maximum use of your mirror it’s important to place it strategically near a light source.

1. Ambient light sources, fairy lights, candles and more.

If you don’t really wish to do much to your room and just want to add touch of light, you should try to decorate it more with candles or fairy light. This will not only offer the right luminosity, but will be quite therapeutic and add tremendous charm. Adding yellow light will create an intimate atmosphere.

1. Using light colour or transfer at furniture

We want to choose our furniture based on our likes and don’t really bother how it is going to match with the lighting. Is it going to make our room look smaller or maybe darker? But it’s highly important to take light into consideration. Light or neutral colours make your room look bigger and spacious and contrast the lighting really well. Having TV stands or big bulky wood tables isn’t the way. It’s better to have a light weighted transparent table.

1. Cover floors with large, bright area rug

Adding some softness and texture to your bare floors will surely brighten up your room and make it look more spacious. Opting for white or warmer tones will make the place look bigger visually. It is also important to make sure that the rug is of big size. These rigs could be either placed under the coffee table or next to the bed.

1. Embracing white walls

It is very true if a fact that white walls bring in more light to your room. It sends light bouncing around your space that makes it look more spacious. It trims on the ceilings for added texture, or paint one side with a refreshing colour for some diversity.

1. Opt for light colour curtains

Having light furniture or surroundings in 2 bhk flats near Hitech city will surely make the area look more spacious visually. You can either choose from blackout curtains or light drapes from some shade of beige or light grey. If you are fond of colours, you could go in for lighter or pastel shades in the family of pink, purple, green or blue. This will also give you a hint of colour plus make your area look spacious.

1. Not overdoing wall art

A common mistake that many of the new designers end up doing is too much on the wall. It doesn’t matter what is the size of your room, even if it is a mansion as long as there is enough light on the right places only then will the room even look spacious.

1. Minimalistic furniture

Filling a room with huge sofas or furniture will only create shadows, which will give you an illusion of a darker and smaller room. To avoid this make sure the furniture you buy is minimum and colours are light. Have enough space between every furniture so as make your room look big and has enough space to pass by.

1. Lights on wall or ceiling

Instead of trying to aim lights everywhere, the smarter thing to do is putting up lights on walls or ceilings. This makes the room brighter by throwing the light all around the room rather than just one spot, and lights definitely make the room look visually bigger. You can also add pot lights into the edge of your ceilings so that

It can elegantly cast light down the walls.

Gated community flats do offer ample space. Rainbow Vistas is one such property located in the prime location with luxury 2bhk flats near Hitech city. Using these tricks and skills one can light up or brighten any room.  Though brightening a dark room is quite a challenge but it’s also about the fun and the creativity behind that. Adding up mirrors, Beige furniture, cool tone curtains, white lights etc,. All of these at the end give a visually bigger look of the house.