Alexandra Gator

Apparently, no.

I mean, it's an optical illusion that you actually have a little more square footage if everything's not up against the wall.

You can do it like three to five inches.

It's not like you put it in the center of your living room.

If you go to an open house where they've staged it, you'll notice that they never put all of the furniture up against the wall.

They always do it like just a little.

It gives you the feeling of more space.

I have a word for you.

The word is zoning.

And the idea is that you can have even though even if you have just one space, if you have an open floor plan, zoning.

Just means like you can zone off different areas of the open floor.

There's no reason why you can't have a dining room and a living room and a kitchen and a movie area all in that one open room.

Lots of low budget and non-permanent solutions to make your space your own.

That's after the break.

Let me introduce you to Shamika Lynch.

She is the founder and principal designer of Maximizing Tiny Interiors in New Jersey.

And her answer was, you know, in a lot of ways, a home is a home is a home.

So, you know, people got to cook, people got to work, kids need room to play and do their homework.

So a lot is the same.

But here's what she says is really essential to the design of small spaces specifically.