{"id":3370,"date":"2020-05-31T01:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T01:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bespokehomedesign.com\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2019-06-19T05:21:29","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T05:21:29","slug":"reconfig-get-bigger-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bespokehomedesign.com\/blog\/reconfig-get-bigger-house\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get a Bigger House Without Doing Any Building Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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I’m sure you remember the story of the Frog Prince.<\/p>\n

As a quick recap, a Princess finds a frog in a pond after dropping her ball into it and after giving it a kiss it turns into a handsome Prince with whom she lives happily ever after.<\/p>\n

And what has that to do with your home?!<\/p>\n

Bear with me here.<\/p>\n

Our sense of space in a room is defined by the walls, beams and columns and the floors. In other words the physical structure of the room and how these different elements relate to each other define our sense of space. Height and width also add to an impression of space.<\/p>\n

Another couple of important factors here are proportion and perception. In other words it\u2019s how we see the room and how much of it we take up.<\/p>\n

If the scale of the room is wrong and is too small we can feel cramped like we are trapped in a confined cell.<\/p>\n

The point here is that we can trick our brains to think we are in a space that is bigger than it really is by what we see with our eyes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our eyes only imprint things in 2 dimensions and our brain then converts in into 3D and fills in the blanks.<\/p>\n

So by manipulating what our eyes see we can then make a room seem bigger (or smaller for that matter) than it really is.<\/p>\n

We can manipulate this with interior design.<\/p>\n

This is an important fact because this trickery affects us psychologically and emotionally so by manipulating what our eyes see in the room will drastically effect how we feel in that room. With me so far?!<\/p>\n

So in essence we can turn our frog of a house into a prince by using a few tricks od the interior design trade.<\/p>\n

We can make our homes feel bigger without getting any building work done at all.<\/p>\n

And that’s what we’re gonna cover here in our third instalment of our series looking at your favourite home improvement shows.<\/p>\n

This time out we\u2019ve been watching:<\/p>\n

BBC Design Rules<\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

The latest of these shows to come under our radar is \u2018Design Rules\u2019 on the BBC. Here we are looking at the first episode in the series, specifically about using space and planning your home.<\/p>\n

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, love him or loathe him, does raise some important points here. Ideas that, as architects, we deal with on a daily basis but which can dramatically improve how your terraced house feels <\/b>to live in.<\/p>\n