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Sara Hesikova

How to use curtains to make a small living room look bigger – interior experts share 4 tricks they use to create the illusion of space

A neutral living room with a grey modular sofa and floor-length voile curtains in white.

If your living room is on the smaller side then every decorating decision and each new piece of furniture or fitting you add to the room matters. One wrong move can make the space look even smaller than it is when what you want is the exact opposite. This rule applies to even something as seemingly simple as your window curtains – but knowing how to use curtains to make a small living room look bigger is a game changer.

There are many different small living room ideas that you can utilise to visually expand your living space and taking care with your living room curtain ideas is a big part of that. The right choice of window curtains can make or break the room.

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