How to Brighten Up Dark Rooms in Your Home

16th August 2020

Dark rooms can really dull any great interior design work, especially if your design focuses on light and airy colours. However, there are a few simple ways that you can brighten up dull rooms in your home. Some rooms may seem so dark that you could only be able to make them lighter and brighter by carrying out larger projects. For example, if the room you are wishing to brighten is situated next to a room with large open windows, you could knock through a space in between the rooms in order to create an open plan design that bleeds the light between your two chosen rooms. Before doing this though, you should contact a professional who can do any building work according to standards and regulations.

Another way to brighten a dull room is by choosing lighter colour schemes than your current choice. Pinterest has tons of interior design boards, where you can find the latest trends in the UK for interior design. White walls and a wood floor, when paired with bright accessories, are really popular as they look great and really brighten up a room. I love simple decoration in a room in which you can then add personality and comfort to with your furniture, rugs and soft furnishings.

If your room is windowless, and you have no way of getting light into the room directly, there are other ways to illuminate darker corners in order to brighten up your room. For example, if your room is quite large, why not consider a floor lamp to stand tall and illuminate the darkest parts of the room? Adding floor lamps to corners can illuminate spaces usually shrouded in shadow when ordinary table lamps are used. Alternatively, you could purchase a curved lamp to sit over your reading chair. Not only would this light up your room, but it would also create a focal point to the room and these types of lamps are really stylish.

For rooms with small windows – why not consider installing wooden blinds? In a lighter shade, wooden blinds can completely transform a living space. As they can be fully raised, smaller rooms will benefit from floods of light without dreary vertical blinds taking up space on the window ledge.

Alternatively, you could install Roller Blinds in a lighter shade. Regular roller blinds are great for flooding rooms with light, even when fully closed. This is thanks to their lighter colours, as well as the aspect of the material, which will let in as much light as possible without compromising privacy. Plus, they look especially modern when paired with a colour scheme of your choosing. 

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