After getting new replacement windows for your Pasco, WA home, the next thing is window treatments. Unfortunately, it is not as simple as walking into a drapery store and getting some blinds if you have low ceilings.

Low ceilings mean smaller space, and the wrong design can make it look cramped.

To help you better appreciate your new windows, we’ve put together a few tips to make your rooms feel higher.

Scale Down your Decor

Big and bulky furniture and other decor details further emphasize the shortness of the ceiling. Sometimes they even make it seem lower than they are.

Use smaller decor and lower-to-ground furniture to counteract this. Sofas, chairs, and tables like this leave plenty of open space above for a breezier room.

Also, remove decor details with excess vertical lines if you can.

Use Stripes

You can’t change the room’s dimensions, but you can change your perception of it. Stripes are great for this.

Use vertical stripes to create the illusion of height that draws your gaze upward. You could use paint or wallpaper.

Instead of stripes, try the vertical arrangement of art and photos. Make sure it is taller than wide, possibly up to ceiling height.

Extend the room with mirrors

It is an age-old trick, and that is because it works. Get a large, full-length mirror and place it against the wall. The reflection will expand the space, and if angled right, the mirror will capture part of the ceiling, thus making the room feel taller.

If full-length mirrors are not your thing, wall mirrors placed high up on the walls work too.

Go for Floor to Ceiling curtains

Instead of framing your curtain window treatments against the window, use it to make your room feel more spacious. Hang the curtains all the way up to where the wall meets the ceiling.

It creates a sense of verticality that makes the ceiling seem higher. This solution also gives you control of your privacy and the amount of natural light flowing through your new windows.

Try Lower Lighting

In the same mold as taller chairs and sofas, protruding overhead lighting or fans increase the crampiness of low ceilings.

Rooms like this are better suited for lower, wall-mounted lighting. Light sources that shine up to the ceiling also create an illusion of height.

Paint the room white

Replacement windows are usually part of efforts to update a home’s look. You can extend this to the room color. Crisp white wall paint works well in a room with low ceilings because of how our brain works.

Since white is bright and airy, our brain tends to ignore it or perceive it as open.

An alternative to the uniform white paint solution is to stop the wall color a few inches below the top of the wall. Then paint the remaining space with the same color as the ceiling. This also creates the illusion of height.

Replacement windows give new life to a room, but it is a group effort when it aligns with the interior. However, it takes a lot more effort to match your interior to your windows than the other way round.

That is why it is crucial to make sure you get the right replacement windows for your Pasco, WA home. At Perfection Glass, we can help you figure that out for free. Call us to schedule a free in-home consultation or visit our location today.