These Small Spaces Have a Huge Impact on Your Home

These Small Spaces Have a Huge Impact on Your Home

31st Jan 2025


It’s not just the big rooms like the living room and kitchen that define your home’s aura and determine its level of appeal and comfort. There are at least three small spaces that have a gigantic impact on your dwelling:

  • the primary bathroom
  • the entryway
  • the home office

  • We’ll look at why these spaces matter so much and how you can improve them and make them more enjoyable areas in which to spend time.

     


     

    The Primary Bathroom – Where You Start and End the Day


    We get ready for each day by freshening up and carrying out our hygiene and beauty routines. Where? In the bathroom. If this space is dark and dreary or cluttered and inconvenient, it can be more difficult to start the day on a positive note. At the other end of the spectrum, we end the day brushing our teeth, doing face-care, and possibly showering in the same space. How can we make a primary bathroom more inviting and refreshing?

    Replacing a shower curtain with a clear glass door is an effective way to uplift a bathroom. For one thing, the clear glass will blend the shower space with the rest of the room so that both areas feel more roomy. Frameless showers – like these frameless sliders – are also very stylish and make your bathroom more fashionable. Hinged doors are another lovely look, and you can choose a design with modern pivot hinges like these or side hinges that attach the door to an adjacent glass or tile wall.

    Other ways to spruce up a primary bathroom include:

  • Repainting the walls or trim
  • Upgrading to a custom vanity mirror
  • Replacing accessories like rugs and towels

     


     

    The Entryway – The Space that Welcomes You Home


    A home’s entryway is often a heavily used and under-decorated space. However, it’s the first area you see when you walk through the front door. Returning from a stressful day of work to an entryway characterized by dingy walls, cluttered floors, and backpacks everywhere can add more stress. How about making this space peaceful and welcoming?

  • Address clutter by providing easy storage solutions. For instance, you can hang glass shelves on the wall using metal brackets and line them with stylish bins. Wall hooks, coat racks, and even a small table can also make a big difference.
  • Choose a calming color scheme. Paint the walls a pale nature based hue like blue, green, or lavender.
  • Give the space a theme that makes you happy. With a few wall hangings and knick-knacks you can create a personal and cheerful vibe. For instance, you could print and frame photos from your family beach vacations and create a gallery wall of these pictures interspersed with coastal prints or curios.

     


     

    The Home Office – Where Many of Us Spend 40 Hours a Week


    Not everyone has a workspace in their house, but home offices have certainly become more popular. Working remotely has many benefits, but there are also pitfalls like distractions or feeling like you never leave the office. In fact, the space in which we work has a huge effect on the teleworking experience. It makes a lot of sense to create a separate, user-friendly room in which to pursue your career. Perhaps you can repurpose a spare room, loft, or basement. However, you can also carve out a separate home office in the corner of a larger room by having one or more pieces of privacy glass clamped to a nearby wall to form a partition. It’s also crucial that a home office be:

  • Well lit and equipped with task lighting as needed.
  • Outfitted with convenient storage options and organizers.
  • Comfortably furnished.
  • Defined by a pleasant color scheme that evokes energy and positive emotions.

     


     

  • Which of these three rooms do you think has the most impact on a home? Is there another small space that you would add to the list? For glass shower hardware and more, browse the Glass Simple site and call us with any questions at (571)707-7760!