How to make the most of a weeny home

Here are our top tips for helping to make a small home feel more spacious.

The more floor that can be seen the bigger the room will appear, Zio Tom Sideboard, £2,740, Lux Deco

Go handleless in the kitchen, Logic Kitchen 3, Rational

Get leggy 
Raise your furniture up on legs so that you can see underneath it, it will make your rooms feel more spacious. More lovely examples here

Lose the handles
They stick out. They take up space. They are unnecessary. They can be taken out of every room, as illustrated here

Raise things up in the bathroom, Duravit Delos furniture

Levitate
To maximise floor space, go for wall-hung furniture where you can. Sanitaryware in the bathroom and cloakroom that cantilevers out of the wall works particularly well. Look what else we uncovered here

See-through furniture takes the eye further into the room, Float console table, Aura

Be transparent
Furniture you can see through, taking eyes further into the room instantly adds a feeling of space to a scheme. More suggestions here

Build around the window, as in this Ikea room set

Work redundant spaces
Make every inch of space in your home have a purpose. Look what we did here