What Color Makes a Small Room Look Bigger?

Podcast: Repcolite Home Improvement Show · Newsradio WOOD 1300 and 106.9 FM (WOOD-AM)

Opublikowano: 2026-09-10

Original Air Date: 9/12/26 Episode Number: 476Episode SummaryThis week Dan tackles one of the most repeated pieces of color advice in home design — "dark colors recede, light colors advance" — and asks why it so often fails in real rooms. Digging into the perception research behind the phrase, he untangles two things the rule quietly conflates: a color fading into the background versus a surface actually appearing farther away. From there he works through seven common room situations — low ceilings, long narrow rooms, dark rooms, walls as backdrop, boxed-in rooms, ceilings as a feature, and color capping — showing how to pick color by start...