It just so happened that the concept of beauty in relation to a small apartment is considered by many to be unacceptable. In this article, we will try to prove to you that this opinion is wrong. We will bring to your attention interesting ideas for a very small hallway.
Can a small hallway be changed?
Do not forget that the design imagination is limitless, and in combination with new finishing materials appearing on the market, it can work wonders.
What ideas do you personally come up with for a small hallway? It is difficult to answer this question if you have a tiny square-shaped room in front of you or a narrow corridor, like a school pencil case, where there is nowhere to put even the most necessary furniture. This is where various design secrets come to the rescue.
Difficulties in design
Even experienced designers do not deny that decorating small spaces in an apartment is not easy. This task is difficult for a non-professional to cope with, although it is possible. Design ideas for a small hallway can be very different, but it's all aboutis that this room has some features that make it difficult to implement many of them.
For example, you cannot take advantage of natural light in other rooms, because according to the typical layout, it does not provide windows. But the main problem that does not allow many interesting ideas for a small hallway in an apartment to be implemented is associated with an acute shortage of usable space. And even the vertical direction is sometimes difficult to use, because there are doorways in the walls that lead to rooms, a bathroom, and a kitchen.
Any ideas will require a competent approach to planning from the owners. Moreover, you will need ingenuity and a complete lack of fear of the upcoming reconstruction. Only in this case you are guaranteed success in this difficult task.
Interior elements you can't do without
The entrance hall is often called the honorary title - the face of the apartment. It is quite justified: your guests come here for the first time, and from it their impression of the apartment as a whole and of its owners begins to take shape. But do not forget that this tiny room should be as functional as possible. Here, households and guests put on and take off outerwear, put on shoes, store a lot of things (sometimes not the most necessary). How can you fit all this without cluttering up the space?
Any idea for a hallway (including a small corridor) should includeAvailability:
- closet for seasonal clothes;
- shoe cabinets;
- spaces for storing shoe and clothing care products;
- shelves for hats, gloves, scarves;
- bench or ottoman;
- mirrors.
In addition, you will definitely need a shelf for small things, where you can put your keys, purse, notebook, etc. Many of our readers, after reading this list, will think that such ideas for the interior of a small hallway also occurred to them, but how to bring them to life on an area slightly larger than the size of a matchbox?
Designers with experience recommend paying attention to multifunctional options. But we will talk about this a little later.
Wall decoration
In the meantime, let's discuss what the walls should be in such a room. It can be visually enlarged if the walls are light. Wallpaper for a small hallway should be selected very carefully. As a rule, such rooms do not have high ceilings, so canvases with vertical stripes (preferably not bright, but made by silk-screen printing) are most suitable. This solution will help you kill two birds with one stone: visually expand the room and raise the ceilings.
Do not think that ideas for a small hallway are limited to traditional wallpaper. The textured plaster, of course, in light, pastel colors, looks great here on the walls. Very impressive mirror tiles on the wall opposite the door. It fills the space with light, increasesit and at the same time there is no need to hang or put a mirror.
In recent years, the combination of smooth walls with processed (decorative) stone has become popular. In this case, there are several ways to achieve a visual increase in space:
- Using layered lighting.
- Mirror cabinet doors.
- Decorative stone columns that will significantly increase the height of the room.
Ceiling
For small spaces, a glossy ceiling is appropriate, although many designers believe that gloss should be moderate. As a rule, this is a tension structure (if height allows), it reflects light and makes the room more spacious.
This option can be replaced by a more economical material - plastic panels. If you absolutely do not accept gloss, you can refuse it, but in no case should you reject light colors, warm shades.
Gender
It should be noted that when designing small hallways, the floor is rarely made in dark tones. If this happens, then in this case everything else - ceilings, walls, furniture - must certainly be very light, with small bright splashes, accents.
Now, regarding the material used for the floor. We must not forget that the hallway is the most visited and actively used room in the house. The floor here has a special load, so the material for its manufacture must be of high quality and durable. This isit can be especially durable linoleum or porcelain stoneware. In this case, the choice depends solely on your financial capabilities.
Choice of furniture
So, we continue to consider interesting ideas for the hallway. Design in a small apartment needs special furniture. The ideal option is kits made to order according to the size of your room. Preference should be given to narrow furniture, with a glossy surface.
As a rule, small hallways are a narrow and elongated rectangle. Designers recommend using this difference when creating an interior. Furniture must be arranged in such a way that the room is as close as possible to the square.
Store outerwear, shoes, hats and gloves conveniently in a small closet. Well, if it will have a mirrored door. Often the room is so small that the installation of a cabinet is out of the question. In this case, it may well be replaced by a chest of drawers with a shelf for shoes with folding doors and drawers for the necessary small things and accessories.
A more affordable option is modular furniture. Such furniture sets are very popular now. The hallway, made up of several lockers, looks very stylish and modern. It is profitable to make such furniture to order, then the problem with the selection of modules will disappear by itself.
Today, factories are developing different collections of cabinets and shelves, wall cabinets and pencil cases, bedside tables and hangers, benches anddressers. All of them are made in the same style, but differ in size. From such a "constructor" you can easily assemble what is most suitable for your particular case.
Whatever the design ideas for a small hallway (we have posted photos of some of them in this article), you cannot do without a mirror. Therefore, if you put a chest of drawers in the hallway, be sure to hang a mirror above it.
If there is absolutely no way to install a wardrobe and even a chest of drawers, a hanger on the wall will suit you. It can store your daily outerwear, hats, as well as umbrellas and bags.
Arranging furniture
Picking up the necessary pieces of furniture is only half the battle. The main thing is to arrange it correctly. It is more expedient to install a small bench or ottoman at the door, and a chest of drawers is usually placed here. What if the small hallway is very long?
In this case, the furniture should be placed against one wall, leaving a passage, at least eighty centimeters wide. A hanger for outerwear is installed at the front door, a rack for shoes can be placed under it. It can also be used as a seat for changing shoes. Next, you can place a wardrobe, and behind it - a chest of drawers, of course, if there is still room for it.
Lighting
Today, designers offer various ideas for a small hallway. In each of them, special attention is paid to lighting. Properly selected and placed lamps can visually enlarge even a very small room. Experts strongly recommend not to save onlight sources, since the hallway, devoid of natural light, will be too gloomy. We are talking not only about the decorative characteristics of the room, but about the elementary inconveniences associated with the fact that it is difficult to find the necessary thing in a dark room.
Studying ideas for a small hallway, we recommend that you pay attention to options that involve at least two light sources. The main one is a chandelier common to the entire room. It should be noted here that in rooms with low ceilings, you should not install a traditional chandelier on a long cord. For such rooms, it is recommended to install fixtures that are attached directly to the ceiling.
Additional lighting is a wall lamp above a mirror or sconce. It is better to choose a lamp with an adjustable light direction. This will allow you to highlight the necessary area in a small hallway, and the owner of the apartment will not need to install several lamps to well illuminate the entire room.
Now about the light itself. Given the specifics of this small space, yellow or bright white light is most suitable. Blue and green shades will not be enough even for such a small area.
Small corner hallway
I would like to dwell on one of the most difficult options for hallways. In this section, we will talk about corner hallways, the design of which for many owners seems completely hopeless. Many believe that nothing interesting, much less original, can be created here. Let's try to dissuade everyone who thinks the same.
Forstart to give up the idea that the existing ledge or corner is a minus of this room. Treat it like an original feature. In such a hallway, for example, there is no need to measure the depth of the cabinet - the corner has already suggested it to you. In addition, a chest of drawers and an ottoman for changing shoes can be placed in the niche formed by the corner.
Summarize
I would not like to repeat the banal phrase that there are no hopeless situations in life, but the topic of our today's article obliges us to do this. We appeal to all owners of tiny and not yet comfortable hallways - do not be afraid to experiment and bring your own original ideas to the design of your home. The whole apartment will benefit from such experiments, and in addition to a comfortable room, you will receive an incomparable feeling of moral satisfaction from the work done.
