The way that you decorate your screened porch can greatly affect how the screened porch feels and how much usable space is available. While these tips and tricks are no replacement for more actual square footage, they will certainly help make your screened porch feel more open, welcoming, and useful. Read on to find some of the best ways to make your screened porch space feel larger than it actually is!

Utilize Higher Spaces

Placing hanging plants, ceiling string lights, and other high-hanging decorations up as close to the ceiling as possible will create an abundance of height and open air for your screened porch. It is important that these hanging lights and decorations are up high enough, otherwise they will have the opposite effect on guests. Similar to the next option, hanging decorations, plants, and more within the corners of your screened porch will have the best effect overall, as they create height without overwhelming those enjoying the screened porch space.

Place Larger Pieces in Corners

Couches, bulky armchairs, and outdoor entertainment centers are all perfect examples of what to place in the corner of your screened porch. These pieces take up far too much space to be useful within the middle of your screened porch, but by placing them in the corner, with a plant behind or above them, they ensure the space feels large and welcoming. During the cooler months, you should also place your heaviest blankets on the corner furniture for the same reasons - large and bulky should remain in the corners while small and light should remain within the middle and front of the screened porch space.

Ensure Multiple Walkways

Similar to the inside of your home, you would feel limited if there was only one walkway into and out of your screened porch, meaning only one walkway for guests to get to their seats or get up to leave. By pushing some of the furniture away from the walls of your screened porch, you ensure a minimum of two walkways through your screened porch, four if you have a coffee table between the couches once they’re pulled away from the wall. Not only will this strategy open up the overall space of your porch, but it will also ensure the safety and comfort of your guests.

Lightly Decorate the Space

Creating the atmosphere and appearance of more space can be done literally, too. When decorating a screened porch in order to maximize size and space, reduce the overall number of decorations you include, and make all of them small and light in color. Smaller, more neutral/pastel-colored decorations are fantastic ways to make a space feel both more inviting and larger overall. There are less visual distractions in comparison to the furniture and the porch itself, which makes guests and homeowners alike notice the size more-so than the decorations.

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