They painted the remaining white cabinets a darker color, which also gave the illusion of more space.

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And a clean, updated garage can give the illusion of more space, as is the case with other rooms in the house.

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Strategic Furniture: Besides purchasing furniture that will create the illusion of more space (think glass tables and couches with small legs), you can position your furniture to create mini-rooms within your apartment to organize the flow of your space.

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It's certainly a unique approach to browsing from your couch -- and no less awkward then sluggishly dragging a virtual mouse across your TV -- but the view centric navigation can break the illusion of a well designed website, showing blank space on a page's borders if the user isn't looking at it dead-center.

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The tiny Massachusetts island is compact enough so that visitors do not need a car and most arrive without one, yet it creates the illusion of being much bigger since so much is preserved as protected natural space.

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