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How To Trick Your Wife Into Thinking The Kitchen Is Really Larger Than It Is

Is your wife still bugging you about how small the kitchen is?  Does she keep reminding you that kitchen remodeling adds more value to the house than any other remolding project?  Did you discover that your favorite magnetic calendar is missing from the refrigerator door and in its place there is a card for a remodeling contractor?

Enough is enough.  You are going to make that kitchen bigger and you are going to do it without knocking down a single wall or ripping out a single cabinet.  You are going to apply the Bernie Maddof School of Decorating technique and simply distract the eye of the beholder from the real truth.  You are going to amaze your wife and you are going to do all this for than hiring a contractor.

Think about it for a minute.  You know that space, and how you perceive it, is affected by the environment within that space.  For example at work, if your desk is cluttered with paper and cups holding pens and stuff then the desk looks small.  On those rare occasions when your desk is clean, nothing on top to distract the eye, it looks like an aircraft carrier.  The same principal can apply to the kitchen.

Before you do anything, survey the kitchen and identify what you can do to make it be perceived as bigger.  

The first place to look is at the counters.  If there are appliances, knife rack, books, knickknacks, or my wife's favorite, baskets; then you have the same clutter as the paper on your desk.

What color are the walls?  Are they wallpapered?   Do you have a bunch of stuff hanging on them?  Ideally you want a light color with no pattern.  Pale yellow or even certain shades of white will make a room look much larger.  

Cabinets are the next feature of the kitchen that needs to be examined.  If you have a dark stain or dark painted finish, consider redoing them to a lighter color.

The biggest project in making a kitchen larger without making it larger is the floor.  The same principal applies here, light color and no pattern. If you're not up to re-flooring, find some light colored throw rugs and use those.

So it comes down to this.  Organize your cabinets and get rid of the stuff you haven't used in the last five years.  This will give you space to clear the counter tops of stuff you use everyday.  Slap some light colored paint on the walls and get rid of everything that has distracting patterns.  Do the same thing with your cabinets.  Lastly, make a decision about the flooring.  Either replace it with a single color material or throw down some light colored rugs.

Presto your kitchen is perceived to be a larger space and you can now take down the contractor's card and slap your calendar back up.

About the Author

This quick fix to a kitchen is just one of the tips that Jessica Boyd likes to share with her readers.  She also has some great ideas about Kitchen and if you visit IrishLinenTableCloth.com you can see just what she thinks about Irish White Linen Table Cloth

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