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5 ways - look slimmer & make a room look bigger

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Outfit pic - Kate Winslet in a Stella McCartney dress that creates an incredible optical illusion cutting deep hourglass curves. Image courtesy of Sunii Hendrix Interior image - All white interiors reflect light and create space. Image courtesy of Design Shuffle So when you don't have the perfect house or body (and really who does?) we must make the best of what we've got. Even if what we've got is good, there are some simple and easy things we can do to make ourselves and our homes look even better. So the contrasting objectives of Home vs Her is that generally we want to make ourselves look slimmer, thinner, and taller and often our homes (especially apartment dwellers) look and feel bigger and more spacious. So essentially we need to create optical illusions. Erena and I have summarized our top five ways of achieving this visual trickery in how you dress yourself and your home. 5 ways to dress your room to look bigger 1. Lighting, lighting, lighting Tip number one is to

50 shades of grey

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Metallic bathroom suite image from pinterest.com and Jessica Alba in grey from denimology.com I'm a self confessed grey fanatic.  Having had my colours done and being a Winter, grey is definately in my colour palette and it is my go-to for neutral shades. Actually this post was mainly inspired by my love of metallics - silver in particular!  I recently held a style workshop and I loved how the metallics were quite 'uplifting' and complimentary against skin tones of all ages and also how they give and reflect light in an interior situation so without further ado - here's my tribute to the power of grey and the many shades it offers particularly metallics. Mirrors in a grey-beige interior - image by trinketsandtreasures.wordpress.com A dark bathroom has an injection of light with mirrored tiles.  Image by houzz.com Egyptian lampshades have intricately punched holes to bounce light.  Image by trendir.com Alwych wallpaper in grey gives a busy print a calming vibe in a room