STEP 3: LIGHTING In order to create attention and a feeling of space in the whole apartment, you will need light from above, from below and all around. Light is the best way to make your home warm and inviting. Lighting is also a way to visually separate the rooms without having to use walls: it is enough for instance to lower the ceiling above the kitchen with a Gibson board structure complete with spotlights. You could also fit a floor light near the entrance door in order to create the illusion of space. In the conversation/bed area, you need to place a bedside table and a stand up reading lamp with dimmer: you can then regulate the light to be dim when you have guests or when you are watching TV, or oriented for reading. Improving artificial light does not mean having to buy pricey accessories or complicated technical outfits. Areas that are lit in a uniform way lack ambience and vitality, especially those with a single ceiling light source. Spaces that have several light sources posses instead a vibrant look.
STEP 4: COLOUR OR WHITE? Colour matching and finishing is one of the key factors when dealing with furnishing a room. The dominant choice for furniture and textile upholstery allow obtaining homogeneity, so important in studio apartments. Bright colours like white furniture and lightwood floors lit up the space and make the apartment look bigger. Tables and chairs in transparent methacrylate, and glass shelves and tops give the feeling of openness as well as serving their purposes as dining table or supports for books and magazines. If the kitchen is visible and you choose coloured furnishing, you better coordinate tones and finishing of the different elements, perhaps using the same colour for the sofa, for the carpets or even for the curtains. Warm colours like red, orange and yellow, jump to the eye giving highlight and making the ambient welcoming. Cold colours like blue, purple and green tend to distance from the eye and improve the sense of space; however, if the natural light is scarce, they may miss expressivity. Natural colours like lightwood or an earth colour evoke a sense of simplicity that comes from their association with the natural world. Neutral colours like white, black and grey can be used to add definition and space to a multi chromatic decoration. The combinations blue/orange, red/green and yellow/purple define complementary colours. One of the best ways to pair them is to use the fairer tonality for the background and the darker tonality to define details and highlights.
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