Provence style hallway

The Provence style will easily emphasize the romantic charm of a country house, decorate the interior of a small corridor or a spacious hall. The design in white and light colors is perfect for decorating rooms of any size, making them visually lighter and more comfortable. A detailed story about how a corner and straight hallway in the spirit of the French provinces can look like will allow you to better understand all the subtleties of this style in decoration.

No other style has as many variations as country - rustic, typical for suburban housing. In the south of France, it developed in the form of Provence aesthetics - a little naive, provincial, but light and romantic.

Traditions are respected here, they treat furniture with great care, preferring not to buy new, but to restore the old. A Provence style hallway always has a slight touch of antiquity, it has characteristic elements that distinguish this direction in design from any other.

Among the features of this style are the following points.

• Walls with natural texture. They can be stuccoed, natural stone finishes, or retain the natural structure of bricks.
• Use light pastel colors or pure white. Such brevity is not accidental. It is in simplicity that the charm of Provence lies.
• Simple materials for decoration. It can be ceramic tiles or natural wood. A slight aging effect is a must. If paint, then with traces of craquelure, if metal, then with patina.
• Copper and bronze fittings. There is no place for cold silver or overly flashy gold. Forged accessories in the interior are also acceptable.
• Typical furniture. A combination of simple white cabinets, armchairs with carved legs with floral upholstery, pedestals and banquets is a must.
• The presence of a hanger in the interior. It is necessarily made of metal - copper or bronze, and has a high leg.
• Stained glass inserts in doors and windows. They give a special charm to the entire interior. It is only important to adhere to the general color palette.
• Elements of suburban housing construction. It can be wide floor boards, accent ceiling beams, decoration of the entrance group with "French" swing doors.
• Wicker decor elements. Straw baskets and hats, bags and key holders in the hallway in the spirit of Provence look charming. These details emphasize the difference between the style and other country styles popular in England, USA, and the Netherlands.
• Violets and other flowers in containers. They can be suspended or stand on dressers, window sills.

Decorating a corridor or hallway in the Provence style suggests the use of a wide range of materials. This country style is easy to recreate indoors with your own hands. It only takes a little effort. A small entrance hall, even combined with a living room or kitchen, looks better in this design than if strict classics were used for its design.

In addition, the following materials will be appropriate in the decoration.

• Solid wood. Bleached or light gray boards are selected, the materials are brushed, patinated, and undergo other processing stages to obtain the effect of an aged surface.

• Ceramic tiles or natural stone. It is used in floor decoration, providing practicality to the coating. Glossy surfaces are acceptable, but it is better to replace them with matte, herringbone or parquet imitation.

• Textile. It is used in interior decoration and furniture upholstery. Only natural fibers are appropriate here - flax, cotton, burlap. Leather upholstery for ottomans or footstools is acceptable.

• Brick or clinker. If the walls in the house are concrete, decorative panels with imitation of masonry will help to give them the aesthetics of Provence. In addition, surfaces can be decorated with clinker tiles. It is thinner than a real brick, you can find already aged samples.

The choice of furnishings for the hallway in the Provence style is no less important than the design of the entire interior. The configuration of furniture can be straight or angular; the upper cabinets are most often excluded from everyday life, using only the lower tier. Often, with a linear arrangement, the furniture is narrow, with a reduced depth. Decor elements are forged, quite refined, but with a touch of negligence.

In the interior of the hallway or corridor in the Provence style, you can find the following furnishings.

• Cabinets. It is not customary to place full-fledged modular headsets in several tiers here. Most often only one wardrobe is used - a wardrobe with two swing doors and a horizontal bar for outerwear. You can also place a narrow "pencil case" in the hallway without other paired elements.

• Hangers. They may well be wall-mounted, for small items (hats, bags), in the form of a wooden base, painted white, with copper or bronze hooks. But much more often used forged metal hangers, floor, with support on several legs - high, in human height.

• Pedestals. This is the most current piece of Provence furnishings. Here they use dressers and shelves, shoe racks and drawers, wooden chests, painted white. Aged look and traces of scuffs are more than appropriate here. Furniture doesn't have to look new.

• Poufs or banquets. They are most often made of natural wood, sheathed with leather. Wicker straw suitcases, poufs, and banquets also fit into the aesthetics of Provence.

• Other. First of all, among the pieces of furniture, one can distinguish deep comfortable chairs with low backs. Mirrors, large plants in flowerpots placed on the floor will also be appropriate in the interior. Baskets, racks and shelves with scuffs, aging elements, low sofas with semicircular backs. All this creates a special charm of Provence.

Since the idea of ​​a historical, reconstructed design in the style of the southern regions of France is to be realized in the interior of the hallway, it is worth giving preference to authentic details.

It is quite easy to add a little French chic to an interior solution. It is enough to use decorative elements typical for this style.

• The floor is 2-3 tones darker than the walls. For example, snow-white or gray ones are shaded with ivory, baked milk or light turquoise.
• Shelves and shelves with cross-shaped sides. This pattern is also found in the joining of doors and windows, in stained-glass windows and partitions.
• Decorating part of the walls with wooden planks in contrasting colors. They are located between the bench at the bottom and the shelf in the upper tier.The wooden panel becomes an element that unites the disparate details of the furnishings.
• Repetition of textile details. Not only patterns in small flowers are good for Provence. The strip that came from the Cote d'Azur to the southern provinces of France is also appropriate here. It is used in curtains and furniture upholstery, in the pattern of floor carpets and even in wallpaper.
• Wallpaper with delicate floral patterns on the walls. They are complemented by wide white moldings and baseboards, decorative plaster panels.
• Low furniture with soft cushions over the seats. Often, individual pieces of furniture - cabinets, shelving - are transformed into seating.
• Pale pink wallpaper in a small flower can be easily supplemented with a gray wooden floor, simple furniture - dressers, side tables. Replacing the background with lavender, you can get a stricter version of such a decor without losing its romance.
• A narrow corridor can be decorated in white and blue tones, using a transverse strip to visually expand the space. Wicker pieces of furniture, wall hangers instead of floor hangers, sconce-type lamps under the ceiling will be appropriate here.

The lighting in the spirit of the French country style is not full of particularly bright details. It is customary to use soft zoning here. One central area is highlighted, above which a chandelier is placed on a suspension. Original shades are welcome - elongated, frosted glass, simple shapes. Central lighting plays an important role in the interior of the hallway. If the height of the ceilings allows, you should give preference to a massive wrought iron chandelier with 3-5 arms.

Wall lamps look interesting in the hallway space. Sconces in the shape of antique lanterns - rectangular, with a forged holder and a frame - look especially impressive when combined with other metal details. Floor lamps and table lamps are responsible for different levels of lighting in the interior.

Decorating a hallway in the style of French Provence is not so difficult. These interiors can be quite varied, but always retain the true charm of the typical peasant south.

• Brick wall decoration, an abundance of plants, ceramic tiles on the floor - this is the background against which the characteristic details of Provence look elegant. Wrought iron wall sconces in the shape of street lamps, simple wooden furniture, an arched frame in the form of a canopy above the door. All this makes the interior unforgettable.

• Natural, roughly finished stone floor, decorative textured plaster on the walls, a worn dressing table and a floor lamp on a high leg. The deliberate simplicity of the interior is diluted by an elegant armchair with carved legs.

• Free layout, panoramic windows and a hallway area, highlighted with only half hints. Corner cabinets made of completely modern materials are in harmony with simple wood and stone wall cladding, a bar counter and a low table decorated with dried flowers.