What can I do with my small room?

How much space in your room do the collectibles currently take up? And what kind of blue are your walls – dark blue, baby blue, royal blue?

get a fathead its cool

Clean, clutter-free, a few quality pieces and show touches of your personality but not your collections.

Consider getting a Murphy bed…and, regular wooden cabinets.

When I was relegated to half of one small room, I couldn’t even conceive of keeping all of my collectibles out all the time. Way too much stuff.

I had one shelf, and my dresser-top, that I redecorated at least once a week. Some stuff came out, some stuff went back to my chest in the closet. One week it was Lord of the Rings everything, the next focused on Hannibal Lecter, the next was Mediaeval/Celtic artwork. It made being in my room more interesting – always something different to look at.

Are you trying to make the room look bigger for a specific purpose (say, selling the house)? That would change my answer.

If you like your room and no one else’s opinion matters, then don’t do anything if you like your collectibles (just know that hoarding has now become the cause celeb on TV, so be careful you don’t get a diagnosis out of the deal).

If your house is on the market, put the stuff in boxes in storage far far away or it will detract from trying to sell the place.

If you live in the home of someone else (parents) and they are strongly encouraging that you might want to rethink your decor, you might ask them what they mean and what suggestions they are making (e.g., get rid of the Harry Potter stuff) and what alternatives they think might be beneficial to making your room comfortable for you without the clutter.

Get some mirrors. and ditch harry

If the walls are painted a dark blue, lightening them up in color will make the room feel bigger. A shade of “white but not” (like eggshell or a v light beige of some sort or cream) I think would give you the most bang for your buck as far as making the space look bigger while also adding warmth. If you must have blue, go with a light shade.

As for your duvet, you can get a coordinating color (I’m thinking opposite side of the color wheel like a shade of orange or red or yellow).

Reducing bed from queen size to full can also help to make the room feel bigger, free up space, put things into scale.

I really like @Seek_Kolinahr‘s idea of keeping a few collectible pieces out and changing it up often. In this way you can inject your personality into a space without it being too much.

Agree with @alxchase – clean lines, few pieces of furniture, clutter free.

I have this tiny bedroom back home and it is FILLED with stuff… the room is incredible. My full size bed basically takes up the entire room (I also have a 100+year old desk, a nice sized Ikea dresser, and I use an old stool as one end table, the other is a 3 drawer dresser that I painted) but despite the size, if you arrange things properly, you can still have all of your stuff and it won’t look any smaller. As for colors, pick a them—I found this cool most deepish green quilt from Urban Outfitters and so my room is various colors/types of wood, and mostly natural colors—oranges, reds, off whites, browns, greens, etc… but I also have added a blue and red pillow. Everything is very pieced together… play with it. Having a small room with a lot of stuff in it gives a lot of character. Wish I knew how to post a pic… my room inspires me.