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The advantages and disadvantages of the light gamut
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Popular shades for the hallway
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Features of the finish
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Selection of furniture for the entrance area
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Decor and lighting
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Stylish bright hallway
Bright hallway in a modern style
The advantages and disadvantages of the light gamut
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The light interior is visually more spacious, which is ideal for a small hallway.
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Reflecting artificial light, light finish and furniture, it requires a large number of lighting devices.
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The light gamut is multifaceted, includes warm and cool shades, some of which are universal and combined with any other tints.
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There is a light palette in almost every style, and therefore such interiors are always in fashion.
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White, beige, pastel – these tones have a beneficial effect on the psyche and are perceived easily and unobtrusively.
Pearl-gray wall decoration and ivory color furniture favorably shakes the dark brown floor and front door
The narrow corridor due to light finishing seems wider
The disadvantages of the bright hallway include impeccability of color, but among the variety of modern finishing materials it is easy to find options that are resistant to regular care.
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Someone may seem sterile to someone, but the bright palette is so rich that you can always diversify a boring picture. Even the snow-white corridor will seem “warmer” if you make the right color accents.
Cozy minimalism
Popular shades for the hallway
The light gamut implies four main options.
Total white is universal. But in order not to create the sensation of the hospital corridor, the interior must be diversified by the decor and give the volume due to the difference in textures. Make the walls with embossed, add color decor, contrasting fittings on furniture. You can diversify the overall picture using rugs and interesting backlighting.
Dark gray floor distracts attention from cold whiteness of built-in furniture
A neutral palette is beige and gray that can be combined with white or use as the main color. Beige paints are used in a classic style, and a cold gray is more often found in the style of minimalism, hi-tech and scandium.
Warm peach walls and light wood create comfort in a narrow hallway
Pastel is bright colors diluted with a white tint, which is why they brighten and create a different effect. But you should not use more than two or three pastel colors in the interior, otherwise the situation will become chaotic and difficult to perceive.
Beige-blue walls, glass and mirrors multiply the light and create light and airspace
Saturated paints on a light background. Having taken as a basis a neutral or white color, it is enough to add several juicy shades into the overall picture so that the interior becomes alive and comfortable.
Several bright spots completely transform the interior of the beige hallway
Features of the finish
The first thing that attracts attention in the decoration is the walls. If the corridor is not distinguished by open spaces, vertical surfaces are covered with light paint or plaster. To give the room the depth, one of the walls is made accent. Wallpaper with the perspective work perfectly in the corridor, visually pushing the barrier to the horizon.
Wallpaper and decorative stone in the wall decoration of the light corridor
The textured accent wall will help adjust the geometry of a long and narrow corridor, for which decorative plaster, artificial brick, wooden panels are used. It is necessary to take into account the cross -country ability of this room, because all the materials select washable.
Wooden lining on the walls and ceiling in the hallway
The ceiling in a small entrance area is left smooth and white, this color optimally reflects and increases the light. To enhance the effect, the ceiling is decorated with a glossy stretch ceiling.
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If the area allows, the upper horizontal plane is finished with a light board, various architectural “chips”, make levels of GKL or resort to other complex structures. The main task of the ceiling in the hallway is to create a feeling of freedom.
Harmonious combination of finishing and light colors in the entrance area
The floor in the hallway should be practical, for example, tiles, linoleum, quartzvinyl and other modern materials. It is recommended to select a finish of a commercial class of flooring, resistant to large loads, patency and moisture. The shade of the flooring is chosen several tones darker than the main palette or made by contrasting.
Spacious hallway in light colors
Selection of furniture for the entrance area
The amount and size of the furniture in the hallway is due to its area and configuration, but there is a certain set of objects that must be mandatory in the corridor.
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Place for storing everyday outerwear: hooks, wall or floor hanger, a closet with a built -in open hanger.
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Shelf, console, chest of drawers or bedside table for storing accessories and little things (keys, umbrella, care products, gloves, etc.)
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Shelf or cabinet for shoes, compact option: Puff with a shoe storage system
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Place for the seat: ottoman, shop, banquet, chair, etc.
Standard set of furniture for the hallway
For a light corridor, furniture is selected for one or two tones more saturated or lighter than wall decoration. In cramped space, a trick with mirrors is used, decorating the facade of the cabinet or cabinet reflecting surfaces, or simply hanging a large mirror on a long wall.
Interesting: dust is less noticeable on a light furniture surface, and standard furniture care is needed regardless of color.
Furniture on the legs gives the room lightness
Decor and lighting
Decorations in the hallway are predominantly functional. Interesting storage models, mirrors in original frames, beautiful boxes and baskets, vases are selected as a decor, in which, in addition to bouquets, you can fold the keys, key chains and other little things.
Mirrors in the corridor are recommended with a full -length reflection. Such a model is hung on a wall or front door or chosen floor models.
Beautiful bright entrance hall in a classic style
The decor in the corridor serve:
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Pictures, posters, photos
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Panel
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watch
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Bouquets
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Sculptural art.
Particular attention is paid to lighting, because in the hallway there is rarely a window, which means that the light in this room is extremely artificial. In a square lobby, you can hang a chandelier in the center of the ceiling, sconces at the mirror. In modern styles, track systems, lamps on long cords are organic.
For a small hallway, LED lighting equipped around the perimeter, or built -in lamps, is suitable. Lighting devices in the original performance can serve as a light source and as an original decor.
Mirrors, glossy ceiling and built -in illumination visually extend the walls with a narrow hallway
Stylish bright hallway
With the exception of interiors, where only a dark or bright palette is used, light colors are appropriate in any stylistic direction.
Light shades are inherent in the Scandinavian style, where white, light gray, beige, blue are ideally combined with a texture of natural wood, knitted textiles.
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In classicism, light colors are perfectly echoing with gilding, mirrors, expensive finishing materials. In a classic style, a warm light gamut is often used, combining with chocolate and wood shades.
Luxurious hallway in the style of neoclassic
Neoclassics gravitates to minimalism, with a large number of reflective surfaces and intensive lighting.
There are no extra details in the minimalist interior, and accents are created using contrasting troops or textured finishes.
In the style of minimalism
The hallway in the loft style is an accent wall with decoration for brickwork, concrete or wood. Light tones in this style are emphasized by black details (metal elements of furniture, fittings, lampshades of lamps, etc.).
An interesting idea of lighting for a light hall in the loft style
A bright hallway is also characteristic of a Provence, where a neutral palette is replaced with pastel. Pale lavender, green, yellow, blue and other pastel shades with a successful combination create funny and pleasant for visual perception of the decoration.
Beige-blue square hallway in the style of Provence
The hallway meets us and escorts us, because its arrangement should not be ignored. Our comfort and mood depend on how comfortable and convenient this space will be. Light shades will give a close hallway and adjust the features of the configuration with a non -standard layout.
Gray-beige hallway in a modern style
