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12 Tips for Tiny Home Décor
Real tricks for making a small space feel bigger, calmer, and like you, not cramped.
A small space or a tiny home is a popular alternative to a regular sized house, and I see more of them every year here in the Las Vegas valley. Less to clean, more reasons to gather, and honestly, less house payment. What’s not to love? Decorating one well just takes a different playbook than a regular sized house, so here are 12 tips I’d actually use.
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For all its joys, decorating a tiny home can be a real challenge. You don’t have room for anything that isn’t earning its keep, so every piece needs to work harder. These 12 tricks cover furniture, layout, color, and light, the things that make the biggest difference in a small footprint.
Furniture & Layout Tricks
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Buy decorative, functional items
Look for everyday pieces, a lamp, a toaster, that can double as décor. You don’t have room for anything purely decorative, so personalize your space with things you already need and use.
Go low with seating
Choose seating that sits low to the ground, especially a sofa or a plush chair. Lower furniture reads as more open space above it, so the whole room feels bigger.
Separate spaces with rugs
Most tiny homes skip interior walls and doors to save floor space. Use rugs instead to define separate zones, and pick colors that add some personality while you’re at it.
Choose furniture with storage
Storage is the biggest challenge in a tiny home. Coffee tables, chairs, and sofas with a lift-up lid, or beds and tables with shelving underneath, buy you real space for your things.
Invest in acrylic furniture
Clear acrylic accent tables, chairs, and stools practically disappear into the room, so visitors’ eyes land on your decorative pieces instead of the furniture itself.
Focus on a few pieces
In a small space, too much catches the eye at once. Decide what you want people to notice, a piece of art, grandma’s table, a fish tank, and keep just a few focal items front and center.
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Color, Light & Finish Tricks
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Hang eye-catching light fixtures
Save floor space by hanging light fixtures from the ceiling. Make them fun and a little bold so they double as décor, not just light.
Install floors in light colors
Light floors make a space feel bigger, and floors are a huge share of the room’s visual footprint. Blonde wood or pale tile both work beautifully in a tiny home.
Wallpaper your ceiling
Add a unique touch without closing the walls in. A light colored wallpaper on the ceiling spreads light and is a decorative trick that helps a small space feel larger.
Select oversized art
It sounds backwards, but one large piece above the sofa pulls a small room together better than several tiny frames, and it helps define separate areas the way a rug does.
Bring the outdoors inside
Natural materials, wood, stone, and greenery, link the inside of your home to what’s outside the front door, which makes a small interior feel more expansive.
Go white with a pop of color
Paint your walls, cabinets, and trim a clean white to make the room feel larger, then add one bright pop, a lamp, a chair, a bold coffee pot, against that blank canvas.
Living tiny can take a lot of stress out of your life. Give yourself an even bigger benefit by building a space you actually love, one you can relax in without feeling boxed in by your own décor. Try these 12 tips, and you’ll make a real impression with a small footprint.
Tiny Home Living in Las Vegas
The tiny house movement keeps growing here in the valley. My guide to tiny house living in Las Vegas covers where people are renting and buying tiny homes, local building rules, and construction plans to browse.
Want to see a real one? Airstream Park in downtown Las Vegas is a working tiny home and Airstream community worth a look.
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Lori Ballen
REALTOR® with Keller Williams Realty Las Vegas, leading The Ballen Group. A lifelong Las Vegan sharing the best of the valley.
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