It is not easy to design the corridor and hallway correctly: the areas are usually small and the functionality must be wide. And both of these rooms are a link that unites all the rooms into a single whole. Therefore, and pick wallpaper for the corridor is not easy.
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What wallpaper to choose in the corridor
Since the room is passable, with a heavy load, to the finish increased requirements for strength characteristics, and all materials should be well washed and cleaned. Here from these points of view and need to choose the type of wallpaper, and after talking about the color scheme, patterns and combination.
Vinyl
Vinyl coating (polyvinyl chloride or PVC) creates a very dense and durable film on the surface. Such wallpaper is also called washable – for their ability to normally tolerate cleaning with a cloth with detergents.
The basis for vinyl wallpaper can be paper or fleece. It’s easier to glue fleeselinovye. You simply apply glue to the surface of the wall and attach the cut to size canvas. Such wallpaper for the corridor can be glued and on slightly uneven walls.
Paper-based wallpaper should be pre-lubricated with glue and folded so that the lubricated surface was inside. At this time it is necessary to smear the wall, and then glue the slightly softened canvas. Therein lies the danger: soaked paper is easy to stretch, because of which will appear on the wall warps, folds and other troubles. So it is easier to work with a fleezelin base, especially since they better hide surface imperfections and there is no need to carefully level the walls. However, there is one “but” – they are more expensive than on a paper base? and the difference is about 40%.
In addition to different bases, vinyl wallpaper is also distinguished by the method of application.
- Dense or smooth. The film is strong, high density, most often smooth, sometimes with a not strongly pronounced texture. Often imitates ceramic tiles, stone and other similar materials. Due to the high density, is not afraid of high humidity, you can wash even with a brush. This wallpaper for the corridor is an excellent choice, but only if your walls are relatively flat.
- Foam vinyl. The structure is porous, which allows the walls to “breathe”. This is the only breathable type of vinyl wallpaper. But there is a disadvantage of porosity: it is not recommended to wet them strongly. You can clean them, but with a damp cloth. What else is good – due to the thick film is well masked even significant irregularities.
- Solid vinyl. Very dense and rigid film, the surface often imitates various natural finishing materials: stone, brick, textiles, textured plaster, etc. Imitation is very high quality, the palette of colors – the widest. They are characterized by high strength and wear resistance. There are options for painting.
- Hot embossing, also called “silk-screening”. The surface has a characteristic soft sheen. These wallpapers are thin, which increases the requirements for the quality of wall preparation.
Any type of vinyl wallpaper will be good in the corridor. They are characterized by high durability, resistance to fading, wash well. The average service life is about 7-10 years. Vanilla wallpaper for the corridor is good for everything, except that some of them are hard to dock, but you can fight this by gluing a special tape in the place of the joint.
Glass wallpaper
This type of wallpaper for painting. The canvas has a certain relief, most often not large. The relief of the pattern allows you to hide the errors in the processing of the wall. Paint can be from 3 to 8 times – depending on the type (and price) of canvas. Glass wallpaper is well permeable, vapor permeable, does not emit harmful substances. In general, not a bad choice if you are satisfied with painted walls.
Liquid formulations
This is a mixture of cellulose, cotton, and sometimes chemical? fibers with a coloring pigment and adhesive. There are two forms of release: ready to use in vedas or in packets for dilution with water. They are applied with spatulas on the prepared surface. It should not be perfectly flat: the thickness of the layer can be up to 5 mm, but also too high consumption is unprofitable financially.
The composition is applied with a spatula. Some masters use plastic ones made of plexiglass, some – ordinary ones made of stainless steel, and someone generally works “ironing”. There are many techniques, you choose the one that is most convenient for you.
According to the characteristics of the surface liquid wallpaper for the corridor – a good option. Since the compositions are colored to the full depth, scratches are not visible, many of them can be washed not just with a rag, but also with a brush. But before buying, clarify all operational characteristics and features. They can have significant differences.
Natural
There is another group of wallpaper, in the manufacture of which natural materials are used. On the base, most often fabric or fleezelin, glue cork crumbs or bamboo. They look great – the surface is natural. However, they have their own peculiarities. Cork is torn off, which in families with children can be a problem. Some types of bamboo cloths need to be covered with lacquer, and also glue them on a special glue. Although it must be said that bamboo wallpaper for the corridor in the oriental style – a godsend: they look magical.
No worse look with the right approach cork. An example can be seen in the photo. Above – wallpaper from bamboo, below – from cork.
About the interior design of the hallway and corridor read here.
How to glue: choice of color and design
The color design of the corridor often has to be matched to the existing decor of other rooms of the apartment or house. And this means that you have to stick to the same range or choose from matching colors. And the choice of color is complicated by the presence of a large number of doors. Do not take them into account will not work.
The best option if you plan to wallpaper for the corridor multicolor, and can find one that has a color similar to the coloring of the doors.
If the color is too dark – wenge, for example, then it will have to play with skirting boards and / or decorative elements, and the walls in such a hallway is definitely better light: against their background dark doorways look like a decoration.
If we talk about colors in general, then you can use any. Even dark. But they look good in spacious rooms with plenty of light (about lighting in the hallway read here). And one condition: motley and small pattern is better to avoid. They make the room even smaller. If your hallway is small and narrow, then you have to choose from light, neutral tones, and with a vaguely pronounced pattern.
In general, narrow corridors – this is a separate conversation. With the help of some tricks you can achieve the effect of expanding the space. For example, with a sufficient height of ceilings, in a narrow corridor in the middle of the wall can make a strip of a different color. This technique allows you to “collapse” the walls to the sides. The effect is increased if the opposite wall has a large mirror or mirrored closet doors.
You can use in a narrow corridor wallpaper in stripes. But look for wide stripes. Narrow ones will create a motley effect. If such are not found, you can combine two colors of the same type (about the tables of color combinations in the interior read here). If the ceilings are high, you can place the stripes horizontally, if not – vertically.
In order not to overload the alternation of colors in a small space, the stripes are arranged in fragments, the rest is glued with solid-colored wallpaper. This, by the way, is one of the methods of combining in the interior.
About how to make a dressing room and develop its filling can be read in this article.
How to combine wallpaper in the corridor
If desired, you can combine the stripe with a large floral ornament. But to pick up wallpaper from different collections without the appropriate skills is extremely difficult. In this case, it is easier to use one collection. Many manufacturers produce canvases with different patterns, which are combined with each other. An example of the combination of striped and floral wallpaper in the hallway in the photo below.
By the way, pay attention, the color of the door is almost exactly the same as one of the stripes, and the jambs – with another. Perhaps that’s why this option looks beautiful.
There is a classic variant of combination: when 1/3 of the walls above or below is covered with other wallpaper. The lower part, as a rule, is made darker, the upper part – lighter. This technique visually “lowers” the ceiling, which is useful if the room is narrow and high.
And the lower part is not necessarily monochrome. It can be a small drawing, stripes, sometimes – monograms. It all depends on the style of the apartment or house.
Another variant of the same technique in the photo below. In this case, the darker part occupies 2/3 of the walls, and to make the room not seem gloomy, a large plant pattern is chosen.
How to install sliding doors you can read here.
Photo wallpaper
Modern technology allows you to transfer to paper any image. With the advent of large-format photo printing of high quality, it became possible not to collect the image from the pieces, and glue a solid canvas. This looks much better. Used photo wallpaper and in the corridor.
But, with such a design of walls, it is necessary to comply with one condition: everything else is very calm, almost monochrome. The main accent is the photo. Otherwise you will get something incomprehensible.
About redesigns of khrushchevoks (with plans before and after) can be read here.