Ever wonder why they recommend vertical striped shirts for people of size and horizontally stripped ones for leaner people, optical illusion. The same can be applied to spaces in the home you would wish to take on the same effect. Small rooms with horizontal lines and rooms that look too large with horizontal stripes. You’re afraid it won;t work for your walls? Try it out on a small space like your walk-in closet and you don’t really have to go for too many stripes, there are a lot of ways by which an optical illusion would get your space in check to make it look just right in your eyes.
Want something unique, use seemingly opposite colors that would allow you to play with color, using the much praised color charts, breaking patterns with an insertion of neutral. Want toned down colors, earthy neutrals in pastel hues will work well and just the same it would give the same effect. People are truly picky people who loves enough space, with what they have as either too big or too small. Color can tame an unruly space and it can bring out your creative side with the wide variation of colors that are available in today’s computer matched color mixing systems, the variations are endless!