All about the decor in the hallway

The decor in the hallway determines the appearance of this room, sets the tone for the general perception of the whole house. When deciding how to decorate the walls and corners of the corridor in an apartment, you can use the simplest materials or unusual design techniques. An overview of ideas for decorating a small or large hallway with your own hands will allow you to find the best solution for every home craftsman.

It is quite easy to make changes to the design of the hallway, even with a minimal budget. If your wall surfaces are smooth or with solid color panels, you can apply vinyl decals. These decorative elements already have an adhesive layer on the back side, they are easily and evenly distributed along the vertical plane. Vinyl stickers go well even with wallpaper, from paper to washable. They can be used to add originality, brightness or chic to a boring interior solution.

You can make such stickers yourself - from self-adhesive vinyl film, as well as buy ready-made sets for creating an accent panel in the desired style. A variety of ethnic motives, images of plants, butterflies, and birds are especially popular. You can glue a stylized tree branch on which you can fit your framed family photos. The whole process of transforming the hallway in this case will take no more than 2 hours.

You can decorate an empty wall in a spacious hall or hallway in different ways. Decorating with frescoes allows you to make the interior unique, it looks very picturesque and unusual. The application of the image can be carried out using ready-made materials. In this case, you only have to carefully transfer the selected decor to the wall.

But you can work hard and use one of the options to transform the surface.

1. Handmade. In this case, you can use chalk-based paints, as well as decorative plasters. Abstract images are easiest to create. If you have artistic talent, you can transfer a reproduction of a famous painting to the wall.
2. Stencils. They allow you to create repeating images on a wall surface. The base is pre-leveled, primed and painted.
3. Tracing paper. It makes it easier for the artist to transfer the finished image. In this case, it is quite possible to decorate the wall with a sea or city landscape, or another thematic plot.

A fresco cannot be created on top of wallpaper or other covering. It can only be created on a painted or plastered wall. Since this element is accent in the interior, it is imperative to pay attention to careful preparation of the base.

Not all standard apartments are open-plan. A separate hallway in them is often replaced by only a small narrow corridor or has ledges. In this case, you have to look for solutions that allow you to decorate a protruding corner or add visual space to a small room. It is quite possible to cope with cosmetic repairs in a long hallway, to arrange it beautifully and unusually with your own hands.

Let's list the most accessible ideas for implementation.

• Textured, voluminous finish. Here you can use moldings, stucco moldings, appropriate in the Provence style, classic or romantic interior. Highlighting a part of the wall with wooden slats is suitable for a minimalist or Scandinavian interior, they can be used to decorate a hanger or frame a mirror. Decorative embossed plaster should be used when decorating a hallway in a modern style or a loft aesthetic.

• Using original walls without finishing. For example, you can leave one of the planes with bare concrete or exposed brickwork. It will be possible to imitate this with the help of a finishing stone, clinker tiles.

• Wallpaper with a bright print. Depending on the ornament, you can add graphics, severity or elegance to the interior. Particularly popular are street style or calligraphy murals, laconic vertical stripes, ethnic motives.

• Creative coloring. Modern manufacturers offer various options for wall decoration. You can take paint with a filler or non-standard texture, silk glossy finish, use stencils. A wide horizontal stripe of a contrasting color against the background of the snow-white walls of the hallway can also be a bright accent.

• Photo frames. You can arrange a gallery of modern portraits, set the mood with landscapes or abstract works of contemporary artists. The frames are made as simple as possible, wooden, arranged not linearly, but chaotically or at different levels.

• Posters on the walls. If there is no time to make repairs, and you want to dilute the boring design of the hallway with something, you should pay attention to this decor option: posters with lettering elements, graphic motifs or fashionable collages in fashion style.

• Painting subjects. Large accent paintings will fit well in a spacious hallway. Compact graphic works will decorate a narrow corridor.

• Cork or graphite board. With this element, the hallway can be transformed to your liking at any time. Designs can be easily attached to the cork flooring, inspiring and motivating images. A graphite board is easy to paint or use to leave pleasant messages to your household.

• Non-standard solutions for familiar things. For example, hooks and hangers for clothes made from natural materials can act as decor. A part of old jeans with bulky pockets, fixed on the wall, can become a holder for combs and small things.

When looking for interesting design solutions, you should not stop the flight of imagination. In the hallway of your own apartment, you can easily find application for those design ideas that previously seemed possible only on the pages of magazines.

The spacious hall at the entrance to the apartment allows the use of much more complex and voluminous decorations. If, after arranging the furniture, the room seems too empty, original accent details will come to the rescue. They are placed on the floor or countertops of furniture, on shelves and in niches.

• Figurines. It is not at all necessary to immediately buy up porcelain shepherdesses in antique stores. Art objects and installations in a modern style, animal figures look great in the hallway - you can take a closer look at the assortment of garden decorations. In a niche, you can put a bust or a figure of an antique goddess made of plaster, marble.

• Vases. Massive floor décor elements made of ceramics, natural stone, wood or metal not only act as an independent piece of furniture.In a pair of vases, they effectively frame niches; in a solo version, they help to beat the podium or an uneven corner.

• Plant pots. If there are windows in the hallway, live green leaves and flowers will be a wonderful decoration. Plants with lancet or large rounded shoots look especially good here. In rooms devoid of an abundance of natural light, you can place succulents or simply shade-loving plants. The Provence style hallway will be decorated with boxes with asters or daisies on the windowsills.

• Candlesticks. This decorative element is considered in many countries of the world as a symbol of comfort, home warmth. They look especially impressive against the background of mirrors. Original forged metal candlesticks or light, graceful glass, fun ceramic or laconic wood - you can choose the best piece for any desired style. Hanging or floor options will look interesting in the designer interior of the spacious hall. Indoors in an oriental style, aroma lamps and incense burners will be more appropriate.

• Storage baskets. In addition to a purely decorative component, these elements act as an additional storage system module. In the hallway, furnishings upholstered with fabric or wicker made of bamboo, rattan will look good. Banquet baskets, small chests can become containers for storing shoes out of season. All-wall racks with open wicker containers placed in a checkerboard pattern look especially interesting.