Founded during the Italian Renaissance and fully shaped in the Victorian era, the classic style is now firmly established in our lives.
Choosing the classics
When you choose it, don't forget that it is a brilliant formal style with straight, clear lines, a craving for geometric shapes - from the design of niches to the choice of furniture. This style is most suitable for a hallway of the correct shape, without beveled corners and roundings. The interior of the hallway in a classic style in a small "Khrushchev" will require significant redevelopment in order to increase and rationally use the available space. It is advisable to stay in a less sophisticated style in such a compact room.
Who suits this style?
Most of all, it suits those who appreciate luxurious comfort, solidity and refined taste. Such people do not adhere to fashion trends, do not like frequent changes in the interior and redevelopment. The classic style involves the use of bronze or gilding in combination with white. For those who do not like white very much, it can be replaced with light shades of yellow, green,beige, which also look good with gold.
Interior Features
Classic-style hallways are distinguished by the presence of large mirrors, various screens and niches; they are usually lined with moldings around the perimeter, which look especially impressive in spacious rooms. It is these details that create the desired design of the hallway. Classics are stucco borders and rosettes, silk screens, massive wooden frames for mirrors, embossing, carving, expensive parquet or porcelain or marble tiles on the floor (it is more functional).
Lighting
For him it is better to use candelabra or chandeliers with imitation of candles. Classic chandeliers are usually conical in shape. They are decorated with many crystal pendants. Often used and chandeliers with floral motifs. But in fairness, it should be noted that ordinary spotlights will also successfully fit into the modern classical style.
Furniture
If your hallway is not large, then the furniture in it should be as small as possible - on the wall there is a classic hanger for outerwear, a narrow small chest of drawers for gloves and other small things, which can simultaneously play the role of a table. More spacious hallways in a classic style can be equipped with a built-in closet, which is better decorated with plaster decor, or in the form of a large screen to fit into the overall style of the room.
The main advantage of the classic style is that itdoes not go out of fashion, the use of high-quality and expensive finishing materials allows for many years not to change the interior. The same can be said about the furniture for the hallway in a classic style - it will not have to be thrown away in a decade, it, like good wine, only becomes more expensive over the years.
Hallrooms in a classic style are inconceivable without upholstered furniture made of natural wood, on curved legs, with magnificent upholstery made of furniture satin, velvet or silk. It can be an armchair, sofa or ottoman - it all depends on the size of the room.
The room, designed in a classic style, speaks of the impeccable taste of the owner and his high social status. A significant, although the only drawback of this style can only be considered that it looks organic only in spacious and high hallways.
Materials
The hallway in a classic style is room for the designer's imagination. He has the opportunity to use a wide variety of finishing materials. Today, the walls of such a hallway are most often finished with decorative plaster (for example, you can use the "Venetian"). You can use natural stone or tiles made from it.
In recent years, the walls in the hallway in the classical style are often pasted over with fabric wallpaper with a heraldic pattern or a small, discreet ornament. Some areas of the classical style allow the use of painting in the design of the walls.
Quite often, forged elements are used in classic interiors. For example, the exquisite outlines of the railing of the stairs leading to the second floor are at the same time framing the entrance to the living room.
Decorative details
Classic-style hallways can be complemented with a variety of decorative details - floor vases, figurines, mantel clocks. If they have windows, then they should be decorated with heavy expensive fabrics.
Small hallway
As already mentioned, creating a classic interior in a small room is much more difficult than in a spacious one, besides, it will look different. However, quite often the owners of small apartments dream of a classic hallway. What to do in this case?
The main task is not to miss a single centimeter of the available space, to make all this small space work for the homeowners. For example, if there is a niche in your hallway, then it’s a sin not to use it to create a built-in wardrobe, in which compartments for clothes and shoes will be created. If there is no such niche, then it makes sense to make a cabinet of the necessary length and depth and place it along a blank wall. No matter how compact your hallway is, it is necessary to provide an open shelf - a hanger - after all, you will not hang clothes wet after rain in a closet.
If you have nowhere to put seasonal things, then use plastic containers and put them on the mezzanine. In case you do not find a place to store various accessories, then use the reverse side of the cabinet mirror by placing a small frame there.with shelves and drawers.
Classic style is considered universal, but not because it can be used everywhere. In this case, we are talking about the fact that the classics do not get old, the vagaries of fashion do not concern her. This is her clear advantage over cutting edge styles.
Classic-style hallways are not cheap, but they can be considered a well-targeted investment in the future.
