Make your small space feel bigger
6/2/202620 min
Floating your furniture, zoning, floor arrangements and art -- there are lots of ways to make a small space or a small home feel bigger. In this episode, Life Kit host Marielle Segarra speaks with reporter Andee Tagle about low-budget, renter-friendly solutions to make your small space work for you.
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First 90 secondsShemika Lynch· Guest0:00
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Marielle Segarra· Host0:15
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Andy Tagle0:19
You wanna float furniture? Do we wanna float it?
Marielle Segarra· Host0:26
Girl, no.
Andy Tagle0:27
No?
Marielle Segarra· Host0:27
No. Because what does that even... Like, that is gonna look so weird in my place.
Andy Tagle0:32
Apparently, no. I mean, it's an optical illusion that you actually have a little more square footage if everything's not up against the wall. You can do it, like, three to five inches. It's not like you put it in the center of your living room. If you go to an open house where they've staged it, you'll notice that they never put all of the furniture up against the wall. They always do it, like- Mm ... just a little. It gives you the, the feeling of, of more space.
Marielle Segarra· Host0:55
All right. Reporter Andy Tagle coming in straight away with the tips. I'm Mariel Sagara, and today on Life Kit, we're talking about how to make a small space feel bigger.
Andy Tagle1:05
Mm-hmm.
Marielle Segarra· Host1:05
Apparently, and I would say counterintuitively, leaving space between your furniture and the wall is one way to do that. We'll see. Maybe I'll try it. I will say I'm in one of those moments with my apartment right now where I'm looking around and I'm like, "It's time to change everything."
Andy Tagle1:21
Oh, yeah.
Marielle Segarra· Host1:22
Even though I think it's cute, you know? Like, it's time for a new paint color, or it's time for a new couch or whatever. But I think