Small spaces inside of your home can cramp your style. Finding what and how to add to small spaces without overcrowding them is difficult, making designing a smaller room feel something similar to navigating a maze.

While you can’t magically expand your rooms, there are still some tricks to make your rooms feel more spacious without knocking down walls. Because window treatments layer your windows, using them to manipulate an illusion of space means making a few simple critical design choices like utilizing width, height, layers, and patterns. At Harmony Blinds, our Hunter Douglas, Norman®, and Alta window fashions are small room problem-solvers, adding height and dimension to your room with no magic wands or sledgehammers necessary.

Using Window Treatments to Expand Your Room

Width

Choosing wide louver shutters “increases” the size of your windows and, therefore, your walls. Wide louvers also mean a broader view of your outdoors, letting in more natural light that instantly extends your living space.

We suggest increasing your room’s width with the following:

• Hunter Douglas Palm Beach™ Polysatin™ Shutters
• Norman® Normandy® Shutters
• Alta Custom Shutters

Height

To give your room height, opt for valances and vertical window treatments that will “lift” your ceiling. Hang drapery as close to the ceiling as possible and let the fabric come down as far as the floor. This simple tactic elongates your windows. For homes with high activity, especially due to small children or pets, vertical blinds are stylish alternatives. Their straight lines similarly work to lengthen your walls.

 Our drapery and vertical blind selection includes:

• Hunter Douglas Design Studio™ Custom Drapes
• Hunter Douglas Luminette® Sheer Panels
• Norman® Synchrony™ Vertical Blinds
• Alta Vertical Blinds

Layers

In design, you can create something from nothing. Creating more space in your room can be as simple as showing off what space you already have. Layering drapery, swags, and valances over blinds and shades gives the dimension of your window and, consequently, your room more depth. Especially if your window treatments come with a fabric-wrapped cassette, top treatments also hide window treatment hardware, keeping the tops of your windows clean and uncluttered - an essential when working with a smaller space.

We suggest layering custom drapes or curtains over minimalistic window treatments like:

• Hunter Douglas Designer Roller Shades
• Hunter Douglas Alustra® Architectural Roller Shades
• Norman® Soluna™ Roller Shades
• Alta Aluminum Blinds

Patterns

Beauty and space are in the eye of the beholder. Uncomplicated designs and simple basics trick the brain into a sense of “openness,” while horizontal and vertical stripes accentuate the respective width and height of your room. For some dramatic depth, go for bolder designs and unapologetic patterns.

We recommend exploring the diverse fabric libraries of:

• Hunter Douglas Design Studio™ Roller Shades
• Hunter Douglas Designer Banded Shades
• Alta Dual Shades

Contact Us

At Harmony Blinds, our experts are trained and prepared to help homeowners find window treatments that meet all of their interior needs. Call or contact us today to set up a window design consultation, or visit us in our showroom at 8380 Vickers Street, Suite D San Diego, California for our full selection of blinds, shades, and shutters. We work with professional and amateur interior designers in San Diego, Coronado, La Jolla, Chula Vista, and El Cajon, CA, as well as the surrounding communities.