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Nothing boosts value like nice big open rooms in a home.

But what do you do when even after you remove the clutter your rooms still look small and cramped?

While knocking down walls is always an option – it’s expensive and not really a do-it-yourself kind of job.

Instead, a fantastic way to make your rooms appear bigger is to use a common colored wall paint and/or flooring.

You see, when you have a different flooring or wall color in two spaces, it serves to visually break them up.

Great idea when you have huge spacious rooms.

But when you have a small cramped bathroom or undersized bedroom, breaking up the space makes a tiny space seem even tinier!

The quick fix is to use the same paint color on all the walls. This creates the illusion that your home is all one big space. You may not believe it, but even painting a small bathroom the same color as the hallway (light, bright colors, of course) adds visual square footage to that little old bathroom!

The same goes for flooring. If you can, use the same flooring, especially wood or tile, throughout multiple rooms and hallways to make everything seem a whole lot bigger.

And while it might not change your square footage on paper, people buy and value houses by the way they “feel”. And this is a fast and simple way for your home to feel bigger without taking out the sledgehammer.

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