Make a Small Room Look Bigger Using Paint

As homeowners, we are always looking for ways to make our smallest spaces look bigger. Every homeowner dreams of a home with the elegant high ceilings that seem to stretch to the sky, but homes like this are hard to come by. Fortunately, there are ways to help elongate your smallest rooms using many different decorating tips and strategies, and perhaps the most noticeable way is to paint the room. It is not as simple as just choosing any color, though - here is a list of things to keep in mind when using paint to make a room look bigger.


1. Use light colors - In a smaller room, it is important to use light colors because they catch the light and make the space appear expanded. Colors such as cream, ice blue, pale green, and light yellow are perfect to use in smaller rooms.



2. Paint the trim white -  Or, at least a lighter color than your walls. A light-colored room with white trim makes the walls look further away from you, which helps to visually expand the room.



3. Paint the ceilings white - Just like the trim, painting a room one color while leaving the ceiling white helps to make the ceiling look further away and expands the room.



4. Add trim 3 feet above the floor - Consider adding trim 3 feet above the floor, painting the wall underneath the trim a medium shade, and painting the wall above the trim a lighter shade. This creates a gradient effect which helps to draw the eye upward. Keep the trim color light.







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Why You'll Love Living in Sugar Land/Missouri City, TX

If it wasn't already impressive enough that Houston was named "America's Coolest City" by Forbes, Houston also has some pretty hot suburbs to boast about. Sugar Land has been named "Safest City", "Top 100 Places to Live Well", "Best Place to Live", and multiple other titles by several influential companies. The thing about the Sugar Land/Missouri City area is that people remember this area because it has the best of everything. What do I mean by the best of everything? For starters, here's a list:



1. Location - Sugar Land is conveniently centralized around the Highway 59/Highway 6 intersection, giving residents easy access to the freeway to take them straight into Houston quickly. Missouri City is located a little further Southeast but still centralized around Highway 6 with access to the Fort Bend Toll Road, which also takes residents into Houston. From Sugar Land, it is about a 15-minute drive into the Galleria area of Houston, which residents love.


2. Schools - Sugar Land and Missouri City schools are served by the Fort Bend Independent School District, which is recognized as an award-winning district in the state of Texas. FBISD strives for academic excellence and is one of the largest and most well-known districts in the area.


3. Retail - The Sugar Land/Missouri City area has everything you could ever want right at your fingertips. Sugar Land boasts shopping strips, department stores, malls, restaurants and the popular Town Square located just off of Highway 6 and 59. Whatever it is you're looking for can be found after a short trip up down the road or up the highway.

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Houston: Should I Rent, Or Should I Buy?

In today's market, many people are left wondering whether they are choosing the smartest investment when it comes to either renting or buying a home. National averages show that it is cheaper to buy than to rent; however, this is not true for all major metro cities in the U.S. For example, it is 70% cheaper to buy than rent in Detroit, but only 28% cheaper to buy than rent in San Francisco. In Houston, we are looking at 51% in the buy-versus-rent ratio, which still leans heavily toward buying as opposed to renting.

If this is true, then why aren't more people buying? We are still recovering from the recession, and although Houston wasn't hit as hard as other cities, we are still not seeing the amount of buyers that we once were before the recession. People are afraid to buy because they think they cannot afford a mortgage. What's interesting about this statistic is that the cost to rent per month is significantly higher than a mortgage would be. For example, if you are renting a house for $1700 a month, you will likely pay around $1400 a month on a mortgage payment for the same house.

Another reason why people are afraid to buy is that the downpayment on a house is pricey and can take  few years to save up for. Younger buyers who are in debt from expenses such as students loans may not be able to save as easily for a downpayment on a house and may end up renting for many more years because of it. It is easier on the pockets to pay a few hundred dollars more a month on rent than come up with $5,000 for a downpayment on a house.

We are still recovering from an economic recession, where thousands of people are still out of work or are trying to pick themselves up off the ground from economic hardship, which makes it more difficult to save up to buy a house. Hopefully we will begin to see a turnaround in the next few years.





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