Make a Room Bigger Look: 3 Decorating Tricks With Optical Illusions

Make a Room Look Bigger: 3 Decorating Tricks With Optical Illusions

Fool the eye with paint and other accessories to completely transform your space.

Add stripes for more space
Just as vertical stripes on clothing may make you look taller, stripes on a rug will make a room appear longer in the direction the stripes are oriented.

Adam Voorhes for Reader’s Digest

Hide ugly tech with a hollowed-out book

Place an unsightly router inside a hollowed-out book to keep it out of view.

Clive Tompsett