Hallway interior design: photo ideas and novelties of the season

Furnishing a hallway is an interesting and challenging task. Few of the owners of apartments in old buildings can boast of large areas. So you have to puzzle over how to place everything you need in a small area, and do it in such a way that it looks stylish. After all, it is this room creates the first impression of the apartment or house as a whole. Therefore, the design of the hallway – a responsible task: the development of interior design may well set the tone for the design of all other rooms.

Narrow hallway

To put it mildly, it is not easy to properly design a narrow hallway. There are few solutions, but there is still a choice. The first way – to think of which of the sides can be occupied by furniture. Preferably the one on which the doors are far apart. Along this wall and should put furniture.

The second option – to use under the closet and coat rack two adjoining walls – short and long. Also a good option in functional and aesthetic terms.

Placing furniture along two opposite walls in a narrow room is absolutely wrong: you will have to maneuver between them, constantly bumping into corners. So that the second wall does not look empty, it can be fixed on it a mirror, hang narrow wall shelves on which to place decorative elements or some small things.

There are several traditional design techniques that allow you to visually expand the boundaries, and new developments in the field of storage systems will help in a small volume to put everything you need.

Walls, floor, ceiling

To visually make the room seem larger, the walls should be light, preferably – with a small degree of gloss. For example, there are textured paints or plasters with a slight addition of mother-of-pearl. Glossy ceiling (weakly pronounced gloss is more appropriate) is usually a stretch ceiling. It will reflect the light and what is going on in the room, making it more spacious. In the economy option glossy effect will give plastic panels.

If you do not like gloss at all, you can do without it, but it is better not to give up light colors. And most often the colors are chosen warm shades.

An important role in the design of the hallway plays light. It should be a lot: hallways are almost always without windows. Rare exceptions are found in spacious cottages, and even then not always. That’s why we pay maximum attention to hallway lighting. To control the light could be from different points of the corridor, switches are used passable.

It is desirable that there was a general ceiling lighting, and in some areas. For example, near the mirror. Mirrors in general – a great way to visually increase the room, and properly illuminated, they are also very beautiful.

One of the trends of recent years – finishing the walls with decorative stone. And part of the walls are made smooth – usually painted and only part is decorated with stone. In the photo above you can see several techniques that make a small-sized hallway look more spacious. First, a carefully designed lighting scheme gives enough light, creating a cozy atmosphere. Secondly, mirrored closet doors reflecting the environment, push the boundaries of the room. Thirdly, vertical columns of raw stone make the ceiling look higher than it really is. The choice of furniture also plays an important role – glossy and mirrored surface does not look “heavy”, does not load the space. The chest of drawers is chosen a small width. It does not interfere with movement, and its functions fulfill.

Also note that in the design of small rooms, the floor is rarely made dark. If this is true, that everything else – walls, ceilings, furniture – should be very light. On them look great details of a darker color, preferably the same shade as the flooring.

Furniture for a narrow hallway

After everything is decided with the color and texture of the walls, the design of the hallway continues: it’s time to choose furniture. The best option is to order the manufacture of a cabinet and hangers in the hallway. Furniture will be made under the dimensions of your room, develop individual filling (hangers, shelves, baskets, etc.) for your requirements. But such a pleasure costs a decent amount. A more economical option – the use of modular furniture. Entire “hallways” – cabinet furniture of certain dimensions – today are increasingly losing to this new type of equipment. The factory develops a collection of shelves, cabinets, lockers, pencil cases, hangers, nightstands, dressers, benches. All of them are performed in the same style and color. From such a “constructor” you can collect what is most suitable for your option.

About the combination of colors in the interior, read here.

In general, you can use not only closed storage systems, but also open ones. True, only if you are ready to maintain perfect order: everything will be in plain sight. But to dry outerwear will be in the open furniture better.

Sometimes the hallway is so narrow that the open closet door completely blocks it. Then the solution is a closet with sliding doors. They take up almost no space. But in this case, it is better to make a built-in closet: with an equal area occupied by the functionality of it is much higher.

This type of furniture is still good in that it can occupy the entire wall, can be combined with a shelf or open part – chest of drawers, shoe rack, hanger, etc. There are also corner models – they allow you to use two adjacent walls, with what cabinet or modular furniture usually can not cope. They are good for linear hallways.

If the space allows, you can make a dressing room. From the built-in closet it differs in greater depth – 1-1,2 m is the minimum. But you just can not imagine how many things go there, and how convenient it is to use it.

Separately, it is worth talking about a place to store shoes. For this purpose, there are special shoe dressers or shoe boxes. They are of different shapes, can be built into the hallway or stand alone. Shelves in them can be:

In order not to take up just so much space, on the top of a freestanding shoebox often make a seat. This is both a shoe cabinet and a bench, on which it is convenient to shoe.

There is also a variant of the round spinning shelf-shoe bench, divided into sectors. Compact and convenient solution.

If you use at least a few ideas, the design of the hallway will be stylish and convenient.

Small hallway: features of the layout

If the area of the hallway is only 4 square meters, a lot of furniture in it will not put it, because most of the walls are occupied by the doors that go out into it, their minimum – two or three. The design of the hallway of a small area – it is already from the field of art. You have to use any available area of the walls, because it is not much. And here the best way out is to order the manufacture of furniture. Since the equipment will have a small size, it will not cost a large amount, but it will be possible to use every centimeter.

First you need to find a place to place the coat rack. Take a good look at the room, find an opportunity to put a closet or just a coat rack, and under it – shoe rack with a seat.

Hallways with an area of 4 square meters – the “property” of small-sized apartments such as “Khrushchevok”. In them, free space is a rarity: even for one person it is not much, and there is nothing to say about the family. But in any case, the composition of furniture strongly depends on your wishes, and also on the layout. There are a few recommendations that you can heed or not.

1. Use all available height. If the closet, then under the ceiling, if the rack, then above it you can make a shelf – open or closed – choose yourself. On the upper “floors” can be stacked unseasonal clothes, and you can, for example, install a pantograph for clothes. This is a horizontal tube, which, thanks to the mechanism, can be lowered from under the ceiling.

   

2. Choose furniture with sliding doors – like a closet. They take up less space.
3. Mirror can be placed on the wall, on the door (more convenient – on the front door) or make a mirror one or more doors of the closet.
4. If there is a need, you can use the space in the upper part of the walls – above the doors. There place shallow cabinets. And so that they are not too “pressed”, the doors can be made of frosted glass. This is the best option – such furniture turns out to be “light”. Another option is to make them the same color as the walls. Then they will merge and practically will not stand out. Doors are more convenient to do opening up or rolling – like a coupe.

   

5. Much more functional is not a bench or pouffe for shoeing, but a shoe rack with a seat. It can be with closed shelves, or with open shelves. This is already at your choice.

About redevelopment of khrushchevki read here.

Organizing a hallway in a private house

If the hallway is spacious – the task is to correctly arrange the desired furniture. Although the best choice is still a closet-cupboard, there may be variations in its size and location. The most optimal – corner. It allows you to use the area to the maximum, while all things are in their places and at hand.

If desired, you can separately make a rack – for “duty” clothes, in which in the cooler seasons go out into the yard, and under it – shoe rack with a seat and the same “duty” shoes.

Now about where to place the closet or hanger. The answer is simple: as close to the entrance as possible. So that you can immediately remove outerwear and shoes. For this area it is necessary to provide a floor covering, which will be easy to clean, and at the same time will not allow to spread garbage. Usually at the entrance lay ceramic tiles or something similar, and on top – dirt-protective mats.

Hallway with stairs

If the planning of the house it was decided not to “blow” technical rooms and the hallway turned out to be small, and even in it there is a staircase, it will be problematic to place everything you need. Especially if the family is sporty and need somewhere to place sports equipment – skis, skates, rollerblades, skateboards, etc. If the design of the staircase allows, the most reasonable option – to arrange under it a kind of closet.

In some homes, this area is used to store means of transportation for big and small – baby strollers and bicycles. If bicycles can still be left in a shed or garage, then with a baby stroller it is simply impossible to do so. And often for this “means of transportation” the most convenient place is under the stairs.

Hallway design in different styles: photo

The hallway can be decorated in any style: classic, Provence, minimalism or high-tech. The choice is up to you. To make it a little easier to understand what will suit you better, this section contains photos of hallways of different styles.