#tinyhousehacks It's HERE! Your go-to vid to find answers to your small space &tiny house mistakes! Let me know which one you like best below!!!! 😍

As a young family, we lived in a 790 sq. ft. house. Then the 5 of us moved to a 2 bedroom apartment (thankfully I had 3 girls who didn't mind sharing a room! And then to a 800 sq ft rental house. We incorporated a lot of the same ideas as you mentioned. Multiple tall bookcases screwed together as a divider, monochromatics, shelving above the bed and under the bed, and use of a daybed for my daughter's (and then daughters') room! It's amazing how these things really do make the space work!

Visual clutter makes a small space look claustrophobic. Closed door closets, cupboards, and furniture hide visual clutter the best. All the stuff on open shelving in a small space takes over visually, because the mess is literally right in your face. Storing even books on a closed door closet shelf helps "calm" down a small room visually. Lisa, I love that daybed, and also the barcarts on wheels used as side tables.

That "Boat" idea was very ideal specially for small rooms/units. It a space-saver and an opportunity to be part of the creative accent at the same time. 😉👏 I've got so much PRO-Tips here. Thank you, Lisa! ❤❤

Great video! I don’t live in a small space, but even so, I always listen to every one of Lisa’s videos because I learn so much about interior design. Many of these suggestions would also work in larger spaces.

This video rocks. I must have watched it 16 times. I love the room divider part when Lisa says “Check-out this bad boy” and she’s showing a floor to ceiling divider that appears to be a Louise Nevelson. How fortunate is that person? Just love this video ❤

Also maximizing on room dividers as storage ❤

You are brilliant. All your ideas are current, cleaver and not the same basic boring tips as seen by others in designing small space. (I already knew not to put a large bulky sofa in a small living room) I would have never known to have a rug compliment (not compete) with the floor, use of room height for design & storage and many more tips. I also love your high energy personality (NOT hyper). The rooms you showed were great examples. I plan to see every one of your videos.

Love your vids, Lisa. Small space styling advice is perfect for everyone.

Great reminder about not having things over the bed in earthquake country. LOL. We needed the examples you showed of room dividers, as they all did little that would truncate the space while providing separation of areas by usage. And what a superb reminder, we all need, about drapes that hang from the ceiling in small spaces. It is so easy to forget that. Love the example of the petite entryway for a studio apartment that gets your attention, but does not stop the light coming around it. Mirrors behind shelving is an idea I had not thought of and I like it because it exposes the mirrors to less breakage chances.

Lisa, this is the best small space video I have seen ! I wish I had these tips when my son was living in Brooklyn. you are simply the best at what you do 🎉

We have a small/medium size home with an open concept floodplain. Walls are a warm neutral and trim is the same color but different paint sheen, with the ceiling of a glossy sheen to facilitate ample lighting. This really expanded the visual feeling of the house. Working great!

Had new built ins (%off white linen finish) put in our living/dining space and had the walls and ceiling painted the same color, so it can flow.

This lady's a star! Thank you so much for all of your tips and your positive style.

Hey Guys... come join us for the premier today! Super informative video and a TON of solutions for you!

I am no longer clicking on any videos that contain the word "mistakes." Well, I did today, just to make a point. I really appreciate the skill, experience, and advice that comes out in various designers' videos, but I just really wish it didn't have to be framed in a negative context. If you have advice to offer, I'm glad and grateful to hear it. But please stop telling everyone that we're doing it "wrong."

So much information tucked into a small space! Yay! Thanks.

I love the picture of the shoe hanger on the back of the door. I know there are cloth ones; but I love the one she showed. We are moving from our 2400 to one + bedroom and bath with son and his family. We have use of the house, but I tell you our room is it and it has been challenging!

Wow l love the boat concept..thanks for that

Absolutely loved this video..helped so much. Brilliant! 👏👏 Ty!

This was so helpful. Thanks 😊

Thank you, this has been the best video on hacking a small home I've seen...so grateful ❤

Excellent 💯 content once again! 👏👏👏 Thank you Lisa!!!

Small space art on walls. A gallery wall with lots of small frames is too busy for a small space. Fewer, larger pieces are better. In a small rooms the walls really close in on you. So I now make sure family photos on the wall are on the smaller size. A neutral frame and the mat still can be on the larger size, but the actual photo should be on the smaller side. Otherwise the large photos seem to "take over the room". I learned this the hard way, and had to remat many too large family wall photos, for a smaller size photo. I was able to reuse the same neutral frames, and the original mat. Butt by adding a second small ermat, I was able to mat the smaller photo. The only cost was a small mat, but it took a lot of time to remat the photos. Lesson learned. Smaller photos in a larger frame and mat. But now the small room looks much larger and calmer.

I get so many great ideas from your suggestions! Thank you!

Great tips as always! But I would like to suggest that people NOT get a sofa with a smaller seating (inside between the arms width) area. DO get that sofa that is at least six feet on the inside, but with smaller arm width. You never know when you might need if for a bed, whether for a guest, or just to use it yourself. Greatest mistakes I have made were buying smaller sofa, and too many chairs.

Hi Lisa. The no 5 font made me grin. Thanks for that.😃

your stuff is so loaded!...my fav designer!!!

You always have such great ideas

Wonderful video, helping me think mindfully and practical in a future transition.

May I add: float the furniture off-the -walls. Center the arrangement in to the middle of the room; it shows more areas where the floor and ceiling meet and thus makes the room look bigger and makes the setting appear more intimate. Folding screens anywhere create some intrigue to wonder what is beyond it. I recommend the IKEA Expedit 5x5 as the correct scale for a normal height ceiling. Dark wood floors and white (or light) walls make the room visually expansive. Area rugs are just dust collectors and define the room too much instead of letting shared rooms overlap their visual occupancy.

This is a flipping beautiful video you've made with such really great advice. Every one of these tips work! Great job as usual : ) !

Thank you for another great video! I’m struggling with my tv room. It’s long and narrow, 9’ x 15’, has windows on one of the long and short walls. And a glass slider on the other long wall. I’d like to put a sectional in there, but not I’m not sure if the space will be too narrow

Brilliant guide to small space living! Excellent tips -mirror behind bookshelves! I will do that thanks to your guide. We have a small empty-nester cottage that we love, and I found that while storage is a key aspect there is also editing and curating as ongoing practice. That means that clothes in our small closet become a "capsule collection". Just the things you actually wear and use and everything not jammed together. In a drawer that holds only a few sweaters, I have made them both cashmere. Regarding Paint -Yes! color drench! different sheens, and the office/library is all in Farrow and ball Matchstick. The Bedroom is color drenched in Farrow and Ball French Grey (more of a sage green color). Thats rather dark, but I found that counterintuitively some small spaces can actually seems bigger in a dark color because the walls recede, especially if the ceiling is the same color as the walls. Artwork pops and it breaks up the dark color, too. Our gilt bamboo carved Mirror in Living room is opposite the flowering garden and nature -the mirror becomes like another window reflecting that view, and makes it seem bigger. LOVE how well thought out your videos are -you really give excellent advice.

I have a bar cart on wheels. The bottom holds some of my shelter mags and high tech stuff. My wfh office area has a small glass topped desk (white metal and glass) in front of a window with a La Marie chair. Together, the 2 transparent solutions really help clear the sight lines. I also always suggest a really good sofa bed in a studio rather than having both a bed and a couch. People always assume I have a bedroom and that it's behind either the bathroom door, the closet door, or the KALLAX room divider that sections off a small, lower height area! Nope. You're sitting on it.

Amazing advice!!! ❤

Another great informative video Lisa! I shared it with my daughter who is moving into their first home and is picking paint colors. I was especially thankful for your tips on living in rooms with angled ceilings. Many older homes have converted attic spaces with exactly that design challenge. With the price of real estate so high per sq foot today, every young family needs you! Bravo for helping so many of us old and young live beautifully.

I’m sure I’ve just added 4” to the height of the lounge room by painting the half drywall/half TnG walls/trim white. They were a yellow cream on top with golden oak orange stained TnG below. Love to be able to replace the faded dusty pink carpet that defines the lounge area and recolour the golden oak timber walkway on 2 sides, I’m sure that would make the space look larger. I’m going neutral.

Lisa you always have great ideas!

Great video, Lisa! I’m still waiting for that couch at 8:36 to arrive at my house. You did send it to me, didn’t you? 🤔

the one folding divider looks like a Louise Nevelson :)

You're amazing! Thank you so much for these great tips

Great tips! Thank you ❤

Wonderful video full of energy, good visuals and excellent design tips! Many thanks.

I just love your new eye glasses!!!

Thank because I’m do small space log cabin. It will help me thank again!!!

OMGosh, you’re good. You never fail to give us useful nuggets!

Hi Lisa excellent advice. As a renter I am not able to paint or crest a monochromatic look on my walls. However I was considering a focal wall with wallpaper or two parallel facing walls. Will that make my space look small?

Excellent Tips 👏😊👍❤️🙏

You are the best Lisa

You are faboulous Ms Lisa!!! ...great tips; OMG! Yes! And....I REALLY was delighted with the...round table idea in the kitchen! You are right! Gain of space and " everyone " is with everyone (no corners to feel away or sat aside), love it! More people turns to small spaces; you come in like a fairy!! Thank you so much Ms Lisa! helene :)

I wish I had seen this 5 years ago when I was planning my small house. I did everything wrong! Where would you recommend I go shopping for small space sofa and living room chair? Your tip about 72” sofa is a good one. I’ve been looking at 75” but was worried I was going too small. Your tip helps me a lot!

What a great vid!!! I love some of the spaces you've shown here as well as some great great beautiful pieces for small spaces. I love the boho look, the space done in grey (with the brick grey.. great concept), the glass room dividers, some of the mirror use and that one grey textured small scale sectional at 11:31 !! I need to do a boatload of screenshots!!! Thanks again, as always Lisa!!!

Hello, quick question can you please do a video based on decorating and figuring out storage and good flow on a small 350sq ft studio apartment?

I make walls bigger, with poster. The way to arrange small ones, big ones, makes wonders.

Great advice! I love folding room screens! Had a beautiful antique one as a teenager. They appear in classic films all the time. Maybe a beveled mirrored folding screen? 🔥

Genius tips :-) Practical and pretty too

Fabulous tips & advice, Lisa! Thanks so much.

I really enjoy watching you! Thanks for the tips :)

My daughter and son in law’s goal is to live in a “tiny house”. These suggestions are great!

I always learn so much from Lisa! Thanks

I needed to hear just that thing today on the rug. I just turned down a great deal on a hand done oriental but the jarring business versus the Chinese theme of k'ang and my Nakashima chairs etc. made me turn away. Thank you. I will not take up that good deal .

thank you🙏 god bless

Very helpful ... thanks a lot !

Thanks and gorgeous examples. Cheers.

Enjoyed

...the only thing about the " narrow console" or something similar under the Television....NO storage, which upu touched on ,with Number 7. .. I suppose even if one isn't in a " small space " STORAGE is needed.

So helpful! Thank you

I love the tips and style. My only recommendation is to be more consistent. This video is for small spaces, and all the examples were from large spaces.

My lovely Lisa 🚀 🧨 🍌 ⭐️ 🧡 Thanks to you, my house looks ok on a tight tight budget.

i love and ur work thank u ❤ .. im arab so we say ..شكرا حبيبتي 😭💕

gotta say, love the channel and all you do, but getting stuff up on legs and exposing more floor.... make that early in list next time. it seriously works and with any setup. :-) and loved yr paint tutorials... huge thanks for working that stuff out. you changed how i think about walls

I am building a relatively small (2000 sq. ft.) 2 level vacation home with many windows for a water view. The second level has a relatively open floor plan. It is modern style home and probably will be decorated in the rustic modern design as inspired by your video on the style. Also, I plan to incorporate a lot of the small space ideas in this video. There will be outside balconies or decking. It would be interesting if you could do a video on best ways to handle windows and expanding space by incorporating outside areas in the feeling of expanding the internal space, if that makes sense. :)

Does the use of mirrors have to be from ceiling to floor to have that effect? Or are there other ways to use mirrors?

I was hoping there would be a link to those folding desks that can be mounted to the wall. I'm having a tough time finding one. Any help?

Wonderful video 👏👏 Where would you recommend to buy Plain sheer curtains ? The ones I ordered from Amazon looked very cheap I returned them .

Another fun, helpful video. But I'm of two minds on the *room divider screens* concept. On the one hand, I *love* most room divider screens. In fact, I've rarely met a room divider screen I didn't love---rattan, carved wood, contemporary...virtually the whole shebang. But(!) I'm hesitant about how they 'cut up' a room---particularly a small room. I get the need for visual separation in a small space, especially a 'studio' or 'bachelor' flat with bed, kitchen and living room all in one. But even in the good examples shown, they still seemed to arrest the eye at the point of the screen, making the space _seem_ smaller? I don't know. You can tell I'm not sold, even on my own hesitation. I must ponder this....

So useful

Awesome 😊 question would a 1200 to 1500 square foot home be considered small?

Somehow I am reminded of Fumio Sasaki "we all have a roommate, we call them 'our things' "

I want to put a black tile floor in my guest bathroom which is pretty standard size. But i don't want to shrink my bathroom. Can i do black floor with white walls and ceiling?

Love it.jeff

"You paint everything the same color, except your floors of course. You paint FLOORS, trim, baseboards..." Lisa you're funny

right b4 you put up "commit" on the screen, you showed a grey room. that is totally depressing, and instantly brings to mind a serial killer abode. lol, jmho ok, i've only seen 3 vids, so i bet u have a good reason, gotta be pushing the "do not mix colors here" mantra. so i will watch a little more and try to get enlightened. i mean i would have at least put a dang bright blue vase like 6' tall somewhere. but that's why i'm not a designer, lol so good so far ok by #4 i realized u r gonna teach us. thank u very much. now i might b able to understand my wife. she got the interior design degree 1st because that is her love. however she did 30 yrs as an elementary school teacher like the rest of her fam, so she could carry that on. now i'm getting some real schooling. to understand yall. she can teach all the grade school stuff, but i can't comprehend her ability to discern colors, maybe i'm brown/green colorblind, dunno

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small space question- 2 80 inch sofas or sofa and 2 chairs - my current dilemma. Scary decision

I appreciate your tips but monochromatic seems so boring. I 😘 ve colors.

bed - put it as low to the floor as possible, then it just registers as low platform surface, also your experience of the room when in bed will be hthat the space is larger becuase you will be further from the ceiling. you can try this out by sitting on the floor and spend a few minutes to see how the size of the space registers for you.

Do you have a link for the daybed at 6:51 minutes ??? Thanks

5:05 a $2m. Louise Nevelson sculpture?

Most of the ideas are great except for the one about round tables. They tay take more room to seat more people.

How bad an idea is it to paint two walls a medium grey and the other two white in an 18x13 feet space?

My problem is bulk heads running above every window.

Why do western homes have shutters under counter in kitchen or anywhere else it difficult to use ..... Indian have sliding drawers .... we have it in kitchen , beds with storage ,Center table , under washbasin.........( except corner space of kitchen we have 180 degree shutter

All those multiple mirrors in the one piece that was shown HAVE TO BE DUSTED/CLEANED! UGH 😳

And what is considered "small"? 🤔

This video is like a exact remake of your previous small space video 😢 all the same tips, even the same reference photos...

I don't reflectance is a word.

Blimey, calm down dear. You're manic, "WALLS, CEILINGS, FLOORS!" This isn't an emergency, just decor. Good tips though.

Not everyone has the same sensibilities