14 Ways to Make a Tiny Apartment Living Room Feel So Much Larger

Every square inch of this small living room was used both functionally and decoratively, from walls covered in art to apartment-sized furniture and a mix of light and bright colors.

To make this small living room appear larger, its walls, ceiling, trim and doors are all painted the same shade of blue gray.

The perfect way to allow a small living room to serve double duty as a makeshift home office is to add a small-scale desk next to a sofa in place of an end table. Just make sure the overall height of the desk is no more than two inches above the back of the sofa.

When you don'€™t have a lot of space to work with, get smart with accent furniture. As long as you get the scale and proportion correct, you can use a wide range of pieces as makeshift side tables. Here, an old two-seater dining table was cut in half and used as an end table.