Light up my life- Any suggestion to make my apartment brighter?

If you put a large mirror on the Living room wall to reflect back some of that gorgeous light coming through the dining room windows it might help. Wishing you lots of happy memories in your new apartment too.

I would also try adding a brightly colored throw and throw pillows.

The lightbox window would work too.

Rules are to be broken- swap out your dining room and living room spaces!

I agree with Sandra N. Swap out the two rooms.

I agree with using mirrors. They can reflect light. Also, LED light bulbs will go a long way to lighting up your space. Soft white is a nice one. Ask at your hardware store because they can be very helpful too.

The room swap is a great suggestion as well as the mirrors. You could use plastic runners on the carpet until you got used to the changes in case of food spills. Good luck and enjoy your new digs.

Mirrored surfaces can help bounce the light you do get.... around into the room... Tall touchier lights to save floor space and mirrors on the wall (lots of medium to small ones... find a thrift shops etc... the larger ones need more support for the weight... which equals more holes in the walls to repair)

One thing you can do is to hang a good sized mirror on the wall, positioning it where it will reflect the light from those windows. I'm referring to the kind of mirror that has a frame and is hung like a picture. It doesn't have to be expensive; I get lots of compliments on a mirror I bought in a big box store.

I don't know if your lamps are floor lamps or table lamps, but if you can, get a couple floor lamps that throw the light onto the ceiling. As long as the ceiling is a bright white, that will help brighten up the room.

You can add fairy lights behind a screen of some sort - LEDs don't get hot and they last forever. Or you could get an inexpensive thrift store frame, go to the hardware store and get a piece of mirror cut to fit the frame (super cheap!), and attach fairy lights around the mirror frame so the lights form a border at the edges of the mirror. Twice as much light since they reflect off the mirror as well as shining into the room. And when I say fairy lights, I mean the tiny ones that look like little blobs of glue on a copper wire, not Christmas lights.

Hope you will post after pictures showing what you did. Enjoy your new space!

Add some bright accents...maybe yellow...a throw, a vase... Not much you can do about getting more light.

I just redid my husband’s office and his biggest issue was also lighting. I had bought him a torchiere last year but he needed more light. I got small LED lights from Walmart you can put anywhere - that came with remotes - and put them under his desk and bookcases. I used Velcro command strips to attach them. Then I purchased three table lamps at Dollar General. Now he has lots of lighting at different heights and it feels like a completely different room. You might want to also consider adding rope liguts around the underside of your coffee table.

You need a bright accent color. Think red, orange, bright gold/ yellow. That would help brighten it up.