The hallway in a small apartment

How to use color, lighting, mirrors and properly selected furniture to decorate the hallway in a small size, so that it seems visually larger and was convenient for use.

Usually the hallway is not the largest room, even in apartments of a large area, what can we say about small size. There are effective methods to make an excellent hallway in a small apartment, and without breaking walls and other fundamental works.

Hallway colour

• The walls of the small hallway should be bright.
  
  
• In general, wallpaper is also better without a picture. It is desirable that not all walls are the same color.
  
  
• Or one of the transverse (end) walls is pasted with wallpaper with a sufficiently large pattern: flowers, vignettes
  
  
• The color of the floor in the small hallway should also be light.
  
  
• In this case, the flooring must be laid diagonally, of course, if there is a drawing, or it is a parquet board.
  
  

Lighting a small hallway
It is better not to use in such a hallway one large lamp in the center of the ceiling. You need to do multiple lighting.

• Firstly, various sconces - they can be on the wall and under the ceiling, some of them are better made turning.
  
  
• An important nuance: both sconces and floor lamps should be placed along one of the walls, not along the entire perimeter - only so the hallway space will visually expand.
  
  
• In addition to the main lamps, you also need lighting. It is necessary to illuminate the mirror and cabinet.
  
  
• And you can also highlight the front door (on both sides) and wall panel, picture, photos, if they are in the hallway.
  
  

The doorway
The peculiarity of the hallway space is that with a small area, there may be several doors in this room - entrance and interior.

• The color of the front door should be combined with the shade chosen for the floor walls and furniture.
  
  
• Definitely - in a small hallway you need sliding doors, because the doors opening into the space of the hallway, "eat" half the area.
  
  
• It is better to have such doors with matte glass inserts - so the illumination of the hallway will increase, and it will seem more
  
  
• In extreme cases, if for some reason it is not possible to install sliding doors, then at least you need to reinstall the usual doors so that they open into the rooms, and not in the hallway.
  
  

Mirrors.
The main accessory in the hallway is mirrors. The advantage is that the reflective surface of the mirrors allows you to visually expand the space of the hallway.

• General approach – the more mirrors, the better
  
  
• But they have to be large mirrors, and they also have a practical function. There may be a mirror wardrobe or a mirror fixed to the cabinet door, if it is ordinary.
  
  
• There may be a large mirror on the wall, or even two mirrors. Mirrors can be of different shapes, not only oval and rectangular
  
  

Furniture
In a small hallway, compact but spacious furniture is important. Properly organized storage system will compensate for the lack of storage room in the apartment.

• You can order a wardrobe to the ceiling, but a few with reduced depth, if the hallway is very narrow.
  
  
• If you need to store books in the hallway, it is better to arrange a glass rack for them. Also for the organization of shelving for books you can use narrow niches
  
  
• If there is very little space, it is better to use not a wardrobe for clothes, but one or two separate hangers.
  
  
• Of course, convenient in the hallway is a small galoshnitsa or a banquet, or an ottofik chest, or a stool-ladder. No more than that.
  
  
• The real find for a small hallway is a shoe basket. It can store slippers for guests, children's shoes or sports shoes.
  
  
• Various little things that quickly accumulate in the hallway, conveniently stored in special baskets. These baskets can be hung on the wall, placed on shelves or under a small bench. Thus, everything you need will be sorted, and your hallway will be neat and beautiful.
  
  

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