The first impression counts: Welcome your guests in a stylish hallway. With a successful color scheme, the narrow entrance area becomes an inviting, bright and spacious-looking room. We will explain to you what you need to pay attention to when designing your hallway and how you can achieve a harmonious color effect. The smallest room in the house often proves to be the biggest design challenge. The colors of the entrance door, the room doors and the furniture also influence the feeling of space and therefore play a decisive role in the final result. With our tips you will be able to choose the right wall colors! Be inspired by the ideas in the photo gallery and find out how you can paint an effective hallway.
Painting a narrow hallway: Green nuances for a natural look
Bring a touch of nature into the entrance area and paint the walls in the green color family. Paint the upper wall area a light neutral color such as ivory or white-green and contrast the lower wall area with a darker shade. If the hallway is long and narrow, you can do it with a simple trickvisually enlarge. Paint the front wall darker than the side walls. Horizontal stripes also make it appear spacious and add variety. Dark wooden furniture in vintage or country house style looks particularly beautiful in front of a green wall. Golden accessories, vases in shimmering metal colors and hand-woven baskets give the room the finishing touches.
Berry tones and nude nuances create a harmonious living image
They convey comfort and warmth and makeeven the smallest roomto the experience. No wonder there is a large selection of berry shades available in stores these days. Together with warm neutral nuances such as nude, light pink or pastel purple, they create a particularly harmonious living image. The color combination goes wonderfully with light oak furniture. By the way, if you are in the process of painting the walls in color and giving the hallway a new look, you can also protect the wall from dirt and scratches with paneling. The paneling can be varnished or painted as desired and is the perfect option for families with small children or for singles who store their bicycles in the entrance area.
The combination of gray and brown exudes an exotic flair
Who says the walls in the hallway have to be painted light? Take a chancedarker wall colorand bring a touch of exoticism into your own four walls with brown. Paint the narrowest wall or accentuate niches and corners with matt brown. The gray side walls recede discreetly into the background and allow the warm color to play the main role in the entrance area. To ensure that the wall design doesn't look boring, home accessories come into play. Golden vases, patterned decorative cushions and beanbags in gold, petrol and chocolate brown complete the exotic color scheme.
The classic monochrome wall design
Non-colors likeWhite, gray and blackare considered boring and are more popular combination partners than soloists in the interior. In the hallway, however, gray can ultimately come to the fore. Especially if the room is small, too many colors can make it look chaotic. If you paint the wall in light gray and the clothes hook rail and the wall shelves a shade darker, then all the design elements will blend harmoniously into one another. Perfect for this: bench in antique white and small side table in cream.
Add accents with cornflower blue
The trend color cornflower blue, a rich and strong shade of blue, was seen on the catwalks of numerous fashion designers this year.The blue nuanceNot only did it make the hearts of the trendsetters beat faster, the interior designers were also enthusiastic about it and successfully integrated it into their room concepts. The color works best as an accent in a small hallway. Together with gray it looks modern and immediately makes the corridor character disappear. Yellow comes into play so that the color scheme doesn't look too cool. A comfortable bench with upholstery in bright yellow gives the room a homely touch.
The timelessly elegant color duo gray and white
Small but nice: a hallway in gray and white looks timelessly elegant. It looks particularly beautiful if you paint the wall in gray and all the furniture, doors and trim strips in snow white. The reduced design is guaranteed to earn you compliments and leave a positive impression on your friends. So that the color palette can develop its effect, it is better to keep the furnishings and decoration to the minimum: high-gloss hallway furniture with handleless fronts, a pair of flower pots with orchids and a photo on the wall round off the puristic living program. By the way, it looks just as beautiful at the bright entrance to the house.
Walls, floor and ceiling in white
Small rooms or rooms with many corners and niches look harmonious if you paint the walls, floor and ceiling white. This automatically makes the hallway look more spacious. What may look sterile and cool at first glance is actually the best possible background for creative wall design and colorful furnishings. There are no limits to your imagination. Experiment with colors, shapes and living styles. With black you can achieve a dramatic effect, royal blue sets a colorful accent and makes the entrance area look much more lively. Grass green gives the room character and freshness.
What color for the room doors?
Do you have a long, narrow and dark hallway? Paint all room doors an accent color. The interplay of cream white or gray and azure blue brings a Mediterranean touch to your own four walls and makes an expressive statement in a small hallway. The nuance of the white color makes the difference: creamy white contains a portion of beige, which is why the room looks inviting and warm.
Paint the hallway tone on tone
Would you like to bring structure to the entrance area? Then you can paint your hallway halfway up. For a harmonious effect, choose muted shades from the same color family. The “Nude” color offers a wide range of shades of varying intensity. You can see an excellent example of a successful color combination in the photo above. The light wall color softens the contrast with the white entrance door and ceiling. The dark one creates a seamless transition to the floorboards.
Creative ideas with black
Black in the hallway is considered an absolute no-go? Not true. If your entryway is spacious and bright, you can experiment with colors. Since there is plenty of natural light coming through the windows in the hallway, you can afford a dark coat of paint and boldly combine red and black. Snow-white door frames, a light runner and a console table in old white lighten the strict, minimalist look of the room, and vintage statues, picture frames and stools cleverly combine modern and traditional. The successful mix of colors and materials creates an eclectic interior with its own, unmistakable character.
Visually enlarge a narrow hallway: paint the ceiling
Would you like to visually enlarge your narrow hallway? Accentuate the ceiling with a bright color and create depth with clever interior design. Paint the wall ivory or pearl white. These warm neutral shades form the perfect background and create a seamless transition between the different areas. Several room doors, a bench and an industrial pendant light in black add dramatic accents, and abstract pictures on the wall give the room a splash of color. A blanket in yellow or orange adds the finishing touch to the cheerful and contrasting design.
Attach patterns to the wall
Geometric shapes and patterns bring variety to the wall. However, if you don't dare to spice up the walls with complicated boxes, triangles and stripes, you can achieve a similar effect with a simple trick. The photo above shows a successful design idea. A large-format triangle separates the wall, the interior doors and even the picture into two, giving the hallway a distinctive character. The wall looks particularly charming in light pastel shades. A yellow color combined with soft ivory presents itself cheerfully and creates a cozy ambience.
Purple wall color in the hallway
A matte purple shade on the narrow wall, combined with a mirror with a gilded frame and a vintage console table, make the small hallway look glamorous. The longer walls are simply kept in a neutral shade and allow the dark wall color to stand out better. Purple and violet are ideal for old buildings and mid-century interiors.
Creative ideas for wall design
A long, narrow hallway with a high ceiling can seem uncomfortable. The popular Ombre wall, in which the colors merge seamlessly into one another, gives it a homely touch and a kick of freshness at the same time. So that the ceiling does not look so high, it is painted in the darkest shade and the color gradient runs downwards. The entrance door in cornflower blue automatically attracts attention and sets accents. It is an eclectic wall design that goes well with the eclectic floor design. When a visible brick wall, a wooden floor and dark natural stone tiles are combined in a small room, there is no choice but to emphasize the eclectic character of the room.
Hallway design with pastel colors
Pastel colors are very popular. They can be combined with each other, relax the eyes and can set subtle accents as well as fade discreetly into the background. Complete beginners can't go wrong with pastels. All possible combinations are allowed as long as the floor covering is uniform.
Stripes on the wall
Stripes on the wall: Vertical stripes of different widths bring variety to the hallway. The special thing about the stripes is that they bring dynamism into your own four walls and still ensure order in the hallway. Round vases counteract the visual severity of the geometric patterns and loosen up the living space.
Whether subtle neutral nuances or rather strong shades: almost all colors can be attached to the wall in the hallway. But in the right combination, they can develop their full effect and give the hallway that certain something.
