The first place a person enters when entering a house is the hallway. It does not belong to residential premises, however, it is the first room that greets guests upon entering from the street. The acquaintance with the whole house begins with it; they pass through it to the living rooms. The design of the hallway should be a link with all the interior spaces in the house, uniting the style of all living rooms into one whole.
There is no need for elaborate decor for the hallway; it should be furnished with comfortable, practical, multifunctional furniture, and consist of easy-to-care materials. It is the hallway in a private house that is the most accessible of all rooms. If residents of high-rise buildings leave some of the dirt brought in from the street on the stairs and landing in front of the entrance to the apartment, then in a private house it immediately ends up in the hallway.
This must be taken into account when choosing the design of the corridor environment. In the first place we must put quality, practicality, versatility, but do not forget about beauty, convenience, and creating coziness. The entrance room should be equipped with modular furniture or a closet where outerwear, bags, umbrellas, scarves and hats, and a shoe rack are stored. An open hanger should be provided for work, dusty, wet clothes.
Tips for color design of a hallway in a private home
Not everyone has a large hallway area in their home. Basically, these are small rooms where you enter directly from the street. You can expand its boundaries visually with the help of a play of color and proper lighting. For small hallways, cream, white, beige, sand, milky, golden, light gray colors and their shades are suitable.
Furniture of any color will look good against the background of walls painted in light, natural tones. For example, against the background of gray walls, the polished surface of a chest of drawers, made in green or red, will look good. Against the background of milky walls there are pieces of chocolate-colored furniture.
For those who prefer bright colors, we advise you to incorporate them into hallway furniture and fittings. It is advisable to give preference to pieces of furniture with glossy and mirrored light facades.
Ceilings are painted white or milky to give them height. When installing a stretch ceiling, you should give preference to glossy film.
LED lighting stretched along the perimeter of the ceiling will not only visually expand the boundaries of the hallway space, it will further raise the ceiling, giving it weightlessness.
In a hallway with a window, which is illuminated by natural light, you can allow the predominance of rich colors in the decoration.
Design Features
What distinguishes a country hallway from the entrance area of an apartment is not only its size, which, by the way, will not necessarily be large.
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What is important to consider when registering:
- The footage can be anything - unless you have a family residence with an area of three hundred square meters, most likely, a huge hall is simply not needed.
- Typically the architecture allows for windows to be added. If there is such an opportunity, be sure to take advantage of it, because the main problem of city corridors is the lack of natural light.
- This is a buffer between the house and the street. You may have a separate vestibule that keeps the heat inside, but sometimes the hall itself plays this role.
- Perhaps part of the space will be occupied by a staircase - this will take up several squares, and you will need to think about the storage and arrangement of furniture.
- The entrance area outside the city is even dirtier than in the apartment. Not only road dust and slush are brought here, but also soil from the garden, grass, sand, and dirt from the paws of pets. Therefore, special emphasis is placed on the practicality of finishing.
To choose the right area and shape of the room, understand what functionality it should perform. Is a coat hanger and a door mat enough? Need a wide bench? Wardrobe or chest of drawers? Will children's bicycles be stored here? Based on this, it will become clear what the design of the corridor in your home should be.
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Choosing material for finishing hallways in a private house
The easiest way to decorate your hallway is to hire a professional designer. But, if you wish, you can do it on your own if you adhere to the basic rules in the selection of finishing materials. As for the decor, a stand for umbrellas, a clock, and, if space allows, a couple of paintings are enough for the hallway. Well, and be sure to have a backlit mirror or a mirrored cabinet front.
Selecting lighting for the hallway in a private house
A poorly lit hallway area can create a lot of inconvenience for home residents and their guests. In corridors with stairs and thresholds, you can trip, stumble and even fall. It's hard to look for things in a poorly lit room.
For general lighting, it is convenient to use pendant lamps, point light sources, overhead models mounted on the surface of walls and ceilings. Local lighting is convenient to use to illuminate mirrors. It illuminates well the interior shelves of cabinets and other functional areas. For local lighting of the hallway, sconces, slots, and any spotlights are most suitable.
Hallway +1
The hallway of a private house can have such a large area that, in addition to all the paraphernalia necessary for this room, furniture for another segment of life can also be placed. Some homeowners install a sink to be able to wash their hands after gardening right in the hallway, while others need to wash their pet's paws after a walk. And someone decides to move the office to the hallway area.
Flooring in the hallway of a private house
The floor in the hallway bears the most load. These are raindrops flowing from wet clothes, melting snow from shoes. The floor suffers from women's heels, wheels and blades of children's skates; fragments of street dirt and sand constantly remain on it. So parquet boards, which are afraid of moisture, or quickly wipeable linoleum are not suitable for covering the hallway floor. It is better to choose tiles or one of the stone types (marble, granite, slate, sandstone) for the floor. It all depends on the purchasing power of the home owners.
Country color scheme
The color scheme plays a significant role in creating a country style. These are natural colors: brown, coffee, sand, milky, red, green in all variations. Textiles with a simple print will complement the picture: checkered, polka dots, small flowers. All this can be mixed and combined with each other.
Again, each type of rustic style has its own color combinations. The English style is dominated by brown colors with organic interference of blue, green, and red. Provence is recognizable by its pastel palette. And for the chalet, the forest palette is more typical: the colors of plants, pine needles, stone, animal skins.
Decorating the ceiling in the hallway of a private house
Often, when starting a renovation, owners don’t really bother with the hallway ceilings. But their design can expand the space of the entrance room, hide existing shortcomings, and give the room additional comfort and beauty.
The ceiling decoration in light colors visually increases the height of the entrance room. It goes well with dark floors and walls in bed shades. For high ceilings in hallways, you can use dark colors. Not only do they not spoil their appearance, but they give the room an atmosphere of comfort. Stretch ceilings hide uneven ceilings well. The matte surface of the tension structure does not cast glare and suits any interior.
The gloss reflects light well, making a small room visually more spacious and bright. The glare reflected from the gloss fills the room with luxury and glamor. Ceilings covered with satin have elegance and grace. They are able to change their color shade depending on the angle of the light hitting them.
Tensile structures can consist of one level or several. But still, no matter how high the ceilings in a private house are, you should not use more than two levels for the hallway. However, as for plasterboard structures. The ceiling in the hallway should have a simple shape. To emphasize the beauty of the ceiling, imitation stucco decorations can be placed around its perimeter.
What color palette is used
When decorating a hallway in country style, it is important to pay attention to the color scheme of materials and decor of furniture and floors. There should be no bright colors here, which irritate and have a depressing effect on the psyche.
The room should be calm and comfortable, so colors such as:
- Beige;
- Color of fresh milk;
- Various shades of natural wood;
- Moderate greens;
- Dim yellow color;
- Baby blue;
- Olive color;
- Creamy shade.
You can take no more than three shades of these colors to create a harmonious combination. If the furniture is light in color, then the floors should be in the same tone. If floral wallpaper is used on the walls, then the curtains and covers should be the same color.
In any case, when creating a country style in the hallway, you need to remember that it does not tolerate excesses, but it is also impossible to create comfort without the help of decor and color combinations. Therefore, designers follow strict rules when creating a rustic home style, starting from the individual characteristics of the people living in the room.
Choosing furniture for the hallway in a private house
Choosing furniture for hallways is not as simple as it seems at first glance. First of all, it should be multifunctional, comfortable, and combined with the style of living rooms. Due to the limited space in the corridor, preference is given to shallow cabinets with sliding doors. Swing doors will take up a lot of free space when opened.
For hallways with limited space, an open type of hangers with hooks for clothes, with an upper shelf for hats, chests of drawers, which can simultaneously serve for storing hats, gloves, keys, accessories, are suitable; on their upper surface it is convenient to put a phone, received mail, documents. Low cabinets can be used at the same time as a place to store various small items and as a replacement for a banquette.
Spacious hallways are equipped with wardrobes, open hangers, chests of drawers, and cabinets with seats. As for materials, preference is given to natural wood or its high-quality imitation. Among the fittings, brass handles framed by carvings and curved legs of furniture pieces look beautiful in private housing construction.
Not only the style of furniture affects the interior of the room. An unusual frame, an exotic hanger, a key holder on the hallway wall, or a vase of flowers on a chest of drawers or nightstand can add style to a mirror.
Walls
Hallway renovations begin with the walls. They are exposed to very strong influences from the outside. The walls are affected by moisture, dirt, and accidental damage. It is advisable to choose a material that can be cleaned.
Vinyl wallpapers are well suited (they are inexpensive and have rich colors); paint (good for smooth surfaces, otherwise the walls will have to be plastered and leveled); MDF and PVC panels (the owner can use them to tidy up the hallway; you can use any of the three types).
Increasingly recently, people have resorted to using a variety of materials when decorating hallway walls. For example, photo wallpapers are extremely popular.
The lower part of the wall can be finished with panels. And the top one should be plastered or painted. The main thing is that the wall decoration is not only practical, elegant, and meets all the requirements of a modern hallway.
