Registration of anteroom

The hallway is the place where the hosts and their guests come first. And, despite the fact that the decoration of the hallway is often not paid enough attention, it is its design should be done with great care, because the first impression of the whole house for any guest who visited you, will begin to emerge here.

A small area is the most common problem when decorating an entrance hall in an apartment. This problem is especially well known to the inhabitants of old "Khrushchev", where in the hallways it is not enough to arrange furniture, but it is impossible to fully turn around, that's why the design of the hallway in Khrushchev should be appropriate, without excesses. Of course, in such a small space it is sometimes difficult to fit everything you need for proper comfort, but today there are a great many different receptions and options for decorating an entrance hall of any kind and configuration.

Furnishing

Small, but multifunctional furniture will help to effectively use the space. For example, a single-winged wardrobe and a wall hanger, a mirror, a folding chair and corner shelves will not take up much space and accommodate all the essentials, but things that are not in use at this time will have to be taken away elsewhere - for example, in a wardrobe or cupboard located inone of the rooms. Obviously, to design a small hallway, luxury and excessive massiveness are useless.

Zoning

When the corridor has a convenient shape close to a square, it is not difficult to develop a design, but if your hallway is a narrow and dark room, then you will have to apply some tricks of decoration, and the photos of the hallways will help to more clearly imagine what is being discussed.

An interesting way to design a narrow hallway, as a visual increase in its width by installing two mirrors on opposite walls. A narrow corridor should also be illuminated by a bright warm light, while it is better to combine several lighting options.

Lighting

For the design of a long hallway in its different ends, it is recommended to install a pair of lamps on opposite walls. Illuminated walls visually "move apart", the room will seem more spacious, while the feeling of oppressive pressure of the walls of a narrow and long corridor disappears.

Materials for the design of the hallway

If we talk about facing materials for decorating the walls in the hallway, then this topic can be discussed endlessly, as the range of modern materials is truly huge, and the options for facing are limited only by your imagination and master's abilities. If you are not strong in design, and designer services are a luxury and you can not afford them, then there are typical examples of decorating hallways, developed in advance by experienced craftsmen.

Wallpapers

So, the most simple and traditional option of decoration is the decoration of the hallway with wallpaper. Typically, this wallpaper, not overloaded with fancy drawings: preference is to give a light abstraction, imitations of different textures or unobtrusive strip. More on this in the article about choosing wallpaper for the hallway.

In addition, wallpaper - this is the best and most familiar option for decorating the hallway with your own hands, when the specialist's help may not be needed at all, because it does not require any special skills or a special tool, only a little skill will be required.

Decorative stone

There are also more progressive ideas for decorating the hallway, which will require either the presence of their own experience, or the help of professionals. Very modern and stylish look hallways, decorated with artificial or natural stone, as in the photo. Decoration of the hallway with a decorative stone is most often done not over the entire surface of the walls, but only in some places in the form of areas of arbitrary shape. The rest of the wall surface, as a rule, is covered with a layer of decorative putty.

Plastic panels

Lovers of a concise design will surely like the option of decorating the hallway with plastic panels, as in the photo, especially since modern technologies allow to give this material any drawing, color and even texture. Wall panels are fixed either on a special glue( if the wall is flat), or on a pre-designed sheathing( if there are irregularities or further placement of heavy structures is assumed).

Photo of hallway design