A design element that can sometimes be overlooked is the color of your home; and I don’t mean the exterior. Color has a big impact on the look and feel of your home. This is because color inspires certain emotions in us. While all these colors may not be applicable in your home, accents can be used to incorporate these emotions. If you want to add some design without coloring all the panels, then you can use wallpaper.
Red: Passion, love, strength
Orange: Vitality, confidence, excitement
Yellow: Hope, happiness, energy
Green: Growth, renewal, harmony
Blue: Security, tranquility, peace
Purple: Nobility, fantasy, spirituality
Pink: Youth, compassion, inspiration
White: Purity, clean, simple
Black: Elegance, luxury, classic
There are other ways to add personality without sacrificing space in your home. One of my favorites is the choice of adding texture in your home. For instance, using butcher block in the kitchen. This saves space by being a counterspace and a cutting board while giving a rustic feel.
Alternatively, granite or marble countertops give a sleek texture to your kitchen space.
One often overlooked texture is the use of metal which opens another world of possibilities to your design.
Texturized pieces, such as the barn door trend, can add to the design of a room by being both functional and an accent piece. Meanwhile, it takes up little room as you do not need space for a door to swing open.
Saving space can be an illusion. Adding lines can completely reconstruct the whole space.
Wallpaper is an excellent tool for this because you can place the lines where you please. Vertical lines can make your space appear taller, or if on the floor, make the space appear longer. Meanwhile, horizontal lines are great for making your home appear to be wider than it is. Another mental trick is adding mirrors; they can lift the ceiling or make the room appear much larger depending on the placement.
A couple of years ago, Dan built a home for Austin and Heidi Thompson. Now that they have been in it for a while, we thought we would reach out to them and find out how they are doing. Here is what Austin has to say about tiny house living two years in:
There are a lot of people who take full advantage of their tiny home being mobile and move it often, getting out there and seeing the country. National parks are always a popular destination for the RV crowd, and the Tiny House crowd is not much different.
If you are reading this blog, then you are probably a tiny house enthusiast. We love the minimalistic lifestyle living in one of these small wonders but sometimes you need a little more space. One of the biggest ways to expand your space in a tiny house is to live outside of it as much as possible.
A few years ago the team created and built a new tiny house we called The Element and added it to the fleet. Since then this shed style design has become more popular and we have evolved it to include several more lengths, one with a master on main option and even one built on a gooseneck trailer.
Tiny House Bathrooms are usually a main focus of a new tiny house builder which is actually funny that most people spend less than 1% of their day in that room. But that doesn't mean that people don't go all out and make their tiny house bathrooms as livable and beautiful as they can. Here are five examples of tiny house bathrooms that could inspire your tiny house project.