It’s Getting Crowded: How to Make Space in Your Home

How to Make Space in Your Home

As suggested above, there is no singular solution to learning how to make space in your home. Here’s a quick look at our top five innovative options.

1. Declutter

There’s one simple rule for effective decluttering – if you don’t love it, need it, or use it, it needs to go. While the process may seem a little painful, massively and ruthlessly decluttering your home comes with several benefits.

For example, when you take an objective look at all of your possessions, you realize that most of them are only serving to take up space, making your home feel smaller. Secondly, you can make quite a bit of money selling your unused and unwanted items online. Finally, a cluttered home can lead to anxiety, so why not declutter and decompress?

2. Build an Addition Onto Your Home

If you need more room, the correct solution may be the most commonsensical one out there – build more of it onto your home. A home addition can be created to add more space to an existing room or to create another room altogether.

Regardless of which route you decide to take, adding to the square footage of your home is a guaranteed solution for learning how to make space.

3. Renovate

Renovating and redesigning is another option for creating more space in your home. While you may not have the money to build an addition onto your home, you may find it in your budget to do some mild updating and remodeling.

For example, knocking down a non-load-bearing wall between your kitchen and dining room can make the area feel much larger. Open spaces tend to feel bigger and more spacious (especially when kept decluttered).

4. Optimize Lighting and Color

Lighting and color also play a large role in making spaces feel big or small. Typically, creating the illusion of more space can be quite effective and is as simple as increasing the natural lighting and using brighter colors on the walls, ceiling, and floor.

If natural light isn’t an option, use bright LED lighting to make the room bright and airy.

5. Come Up With Creative Storage Solutions

Finally, figuring out how to make space in your home may require you to get creative with your storage. Make the most out of “dead space” under the stairs, under beds, behind furniture, etc.

You can build custom shelving, drawers, compartments, and more to help stay organized. Consider stealing some ideas from tiny homes, where creative storage solutions are vital.

Looking for More Tips to Increase Space?

If you’re looking for more advice about real estate, renovation, or how to make space in your home, we can help. Be sure to check out the rest of our articles before you go. And, if you just can’t seem to figure out how to get enough space out of your current home, feel free to look at some of our new home listings!