Hallway interior design: photo ideas and novelties of the season

Arranging 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 rack your brains: how to place everything you need in a small area, and even do it so that it looks stylish. After all, it is this room that creates the first impression of an apartment or a house as a whole. Therefore, the design of the hallway is a responsible task: the development of the interior design may well set the tone for the design of all other rooms.

One of the hallway design options

Narrow hallway

To correctly arrange a narrow hallway, to put it mildly, is not easy. There are few solutions, but there is still a choice. The first way is to figure out which side you can take with furniture. Preferably the one on which the doors are located far from each other. It is worth placing furniture along this wall.

Taking the longest wall under the furniture in a narrow hallway is the right decision

The second option is to use two adjoining walls - short and long - under the cabinet and the hanger. It is also a good option in functional and aesthetic terms.

Two adjoining walls in a narrow hallway can also be used effectively

It is absolutely wrong to place furniture along two opposite walls in a narrow room: you have to maneuver between them, constantly bumping into corners. To prevent the second wall from looking empty, you can fix a mirror on it, hang narrow wallshelves, on which to place decorative elements or some little things.

Options for arranging furniture in a narrow hallway

There are several traditional design tricks that push the visual boundaries, and new developments in storage systems will help fit everything you need in a small volume.

Walls, floor, ceiling

To make the room look larger, the walls should be light, preferably with a slight degree of gloss. For example, there are textured paints or plasters with a slight addition of mother-of-pearl. A glossy ceiling (a slightly pronounced gloss is more appropriate) is usually a stretch ceiling. It will reflect light and what is happening in the room, making it more spacious. In the economy version, plastic panels will give a glossy effect.

If you do not like gloss at all, you can do without it, but it is better not to refuse light tones. Moreover, most often colors are chosen in warm shades.

Lightly glossy walls give the illusion of more volume

Important role light plays in the decoration of the hallway... There should be a lot of it: hallways are almost always windowless. Rare exceptions are found in spacious cottages, and even then not always. Therefore, we pay maximum attention to the lighting of the hallway. To control the light from different points of the corridor, switches use bushings.

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

An example of multi-zone hallway lighting

One of the trends in recent years - wall decoration with decorative stone... Moreover, some of the walls are made smooth - usually painted, and only part is trimmed with stone. In the photo above, you can see several tricks at once, thanks to which the small-sized hallway looks more spacious. First, a carefully designed lighting scheme provides enough light to create a cozy atmosphere. Secondly, mirrored cabinet doors, reflecting the situation, push the boundaries of the room.Third, the vertical columns of raw stone make the ceiling taller than it actually is. An important role is also the choice of furniture - the glossy and mirrored surface does not look "heavy", does not load the space. The chest of drawers is chosen of small width. It does not interfere with movement, but performs its functions.

Also note that when designing small rooms, the floor is rarely darkened. If so, everything else - walls, ceilings, furniture - should be very light. Details of a darker color look great on them, preferably in the same shade as the flooring.

A dark floor in narrow hallways is rarely done, and if they do, then everything else should be light

Furniture for a narrow hallway

After everything has been decided with the color and texture of the walls, the design of the hallway continues: the turn has come to choose furniture. The best option is to order the manufacture of a wardrobe and a hanger in the hallway. Furniture will be made according to the size of your room, individual filling (hangers, shelves, baskets, etc.) will be developed according to your requirements. But this pleasure is well worth it. A more economical option is to use modular furniture. Solid "hallways" - cabinet furniture of certain dimensions - are losing more and more to this new type of configuration. The plant is developing a collection of shelves, wardrobes, cupboards, pencil cases, hangers, bedside tables, dressers, benches. They are all made in the same style and color. From such a "constructor" you can assemble what is most suitable for your option.

Read about the combination of colors in the interior here.

Two variants of "assembly" from one collection of modular furniture for hallways

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 it will be better to dry outerwear in open furniture.

Sometimes the hallway is so narrow that the open cabinet door completely blocks it. Then the way out is closet with sliding doors. They almost do not take up space. But in this case, it is better to make a built-in wardrobe: with an equal occupied area, its functionality is much higher.

Sliding wardrobe can occupy the entire wall in the hallway or only part of it

This type of furniture is also good in that it can occupy the entire wall, it can be combined with a rack or an open part - a chest of drawers, a shoe rack, a hanger, etc. Is there some more corner models - they allow the use of two adjacent walls, which cabinet or modular furniture usually cannot cope with. They are good for linear hallways.

If space allows, you can make dressing room... It differs from the built-in wardrobe in greater depth - 1-1.2 m is the minimum. But you just can't imagine how many things are included, and how convenient it is to use it.

Corner wardrobe in the hallway uses all the free space

Separately, it is worth talking about the place of storage of shoes. For this, there are special shoe dressers or shoe racks. They are of different shapes, they can be built into the hallway or stand separately. The shelves in them can be:

• Folding. Shoe racks with such shelves are usually narrow and fit well in small hallways.
• Retractable. Such furniture has a great depth, which is why it is more often placed in square rooms or takes place in a corner, often behind a wardrobe.
  

  Types of shelves in shoe racks

In order not to just take up space, a seat is often made on the top of a freestanding shoe rack. It is both a shoe cabinet and a bench where you can put your shoes on.

Shoe rack

There is also an option of a round rotating shoe rack, divided into sectors. Compact and convenient solution.

Rotating shoe rack - new in storage systems

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

Small hallway: layout features

If the area of ​​the hallway is only 4 sq.m, you can't put a lot of furniture in it, because most of the walls are occupied by doors opening into it, at least two or three of them. The design of the hallway of a small area is already from the field of art. You have to use any available wall area, because there is very little of it. And here the best way out is to order the manufacture of furniture. Since the equipment will be small, this will not result in a large amount, but it will be possible to use every centimeter.

An example of a hallway from modular furniture

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

A wardrobe in the corner is a great way to make full use of the available space.

Hallways with an area of ​​4 sq. m - the "heritage" of small apartments of the "Khrushchev" type. Free space in them is generally a rarity: even for one person there is not much of it, and there is nothing to say about a family. But in any case, the composition of the furniture strongly depends on your wishes, and also on the layout. There are several guidelines that you can heed or not.

1. Use all available height. If the cabinet, then under the ceiling, if the hanger, then you can make a shelf above it - open or closed - choose yourself. Unseasonal clothes can be folded on the upper "floors", or, for example, a pantograph for clothes can be installed. This is a horizontal pipe, which, thanks to a mechanism, can be lowered from the ceiling.
   

   The pantograph for clothes allows you to use the space up to the ceiling

2. Choose furniture with sliding doors - like a wardrobe. They take up less space.
3. The mirror can be placed on the wall, on the door (more convenient - at the entrance), or make one or more cabinet doors mirrored.
4. If necessary, you can use the space at the top of the walls - above the doors. Shallow lockers are placed there. And so that they do not "press too much", 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. It is more convenient to make doors opening upwards or sliding - like a compartment.
   

   The space above the door can also be used

5. Much more functional is not a bench or an ottoman for shoes, but a shoe rack with a seat. It can be with closed shelves, or with open shelves. It's up to you.

About read the redevelopment of Khrushchev here.

Arrangement of a hallway in a private house

If the hallway is spacious, the task is to correctly arrange the desired furniture. Although the wardrobe is still the best choice, there are options in its size and location. The most optimal is the corner one. It allows you to use the area to the maximum, while all things are in their places and at hand.

If you wish, you can separately make a hanger - for "duty" clothes, in which in cool seasons they go out into the yard, and under it - a shoe rack with a seat and the same "duty" shoes.

Positioning the dressing area as close to the door as possible is the right decision

Now about where to place the cabinet or hanger. The answer is simple: as close to the entrance as possible. So that you can immediately take off outerwear and shoes. For this area, it is necessary to provide a floor covering that will be easy to clean, and at the same time will not allow debris to spread. Usually, at the entrance, they lay ceramic tiles or something like that, and on top there are dirt mats.

The design of the hallway in a private house can be in any style, but it is desirable that it coincides with the main design style of the whole house

Hallway with stairs

If, when planning the house, it was decided not to inflate the technical premises and the entrance hall turned out to be small, and even stairs, it will be problematic to place everything you need.Especially if the family is athletic and you need to place sports equipment somewhere - skis, skates, roller skates, skates, etc. If the design of the stairs allows, the most reasonable option is to arrange a kind of wardrobe under it.

In some homes, this area is used to store vehicles for both large and small - prams and bicycles. If bicycles can still be left in a shed or garage, then it is simply impossible to do this with a baby carriage. And often for this "vehicle" the most convenient place is under the stairs.

Bicycles or strollers can be placed under the stairs

Hallway decoration in different styles: photo

The hallway can be decorated in any style: classic, provence, minimalism or hi-tech. The choice is yours. To make it a little easier, to understand what suits you best, this section contains photos of hallways of different styles.

An abundance of mirrors turned a small hallway into a spacious room

A long corridor is divided into zones with lighting and plasterboard arches - so he looks not so dull and monotonous

The chic interior is emphasized by well-designed lighting, wallpaper in the corridor imitate decorative plaster

The dark furniture in the narrow hallway is offset by the bright lighting, but the interior still makes a gloomy impression.

Long closet the whole wall is a great option. But in order for it to "fit in" and not crush with massiveness, the doors should be light, or better, with mirror inserts. Although the highlight of this interior is the special design of the door - an excellent design move

Happy owners of spacious corridors and hallways, which can fit even a small sofa

Black and white range - strictly, but always relevant

Unusual shape of the cabinet, soft tones of beige and brown. The interior design of the hallway is soft and calm

A very simple solution - for storing clothes

Playing with light and color is a great way to make your hallway look unusual.

Using every available square inch is a smart decision

Minimalism - it will teach you to order))

Mirrors in a wooden frame - a beautiful interior, an unusual presentation

Delicate colors, semi-airy partition, allowing natural light to enter the hallway

Disadvantages of the layout can always be turned into interesting design finds.

Stylish, beautiful, functional - this is the feeling of this hallway design. Decorative plaster on the walls of the hallway adds practicality without compromising design.