Want to ensure people remember your walls? Start with your hallways. In addition to being the first space people usually walk in as they enter your home, it’s also quite prominent and used more often than most other in-home locations.
Check out these ideas to deck up the walls in your halls.
Metal
It’s not metal per se, but a kind of wall paint or wallpaper that has this beautiful symmetrical pattern that flows out at you. Pick the ones with metallic sheens and you can veritably create light, wield illusions and give your hallway that nice ultra-modern, Fantasy-based, appearance.
Go for somber hues like earthy-browns and deep greens or opt for the classics, like black or white or a mix of both. These highlight your space relatively better than bright bursts of color.
Bold
When you hear that word you immediately call up dark colors, almost always black, but this isn’t generally the case. Pinks, greens, blues, purples, reds and more can play bold and fulfill that role to perfection.
What you need to keep in mind is to spread ‘em on your walls based on the size of your hallway. That way you create this ideal blend of bold hues that come across as light and open instead of narrow and claustrophobic. Whether you want to go monochrome or desire patterns, it’s your call.
Framed Pictures
Using artwork, paintings and other pictures you find inspiring and putting them behind glass-fronted frames with color-complementary borders seals the deal where hallway-glam is concerned. You’ll have yourself a nice well-rounded European/American style that anyone is sure to find sophisticated. As you can imagine, this in itself acts like ‘wall-paint’, of sorts, especially where a crisp white backdrop is concerned.
Grey
Don’t be surprised to find grey, one of the most somber colors, taking up a category all its own. Grey walls have that extra something other home-zones can’t often boast. Throw some beautiful gray variations—you can include textures, mix-n-matches and other ideas—on your hallway walls and you have a sight for sore eyes indeed. They bring a sense of peace, calm and quiet unmatched by most other hues.
Blend
This is quite an experimental idea because you may not always get it right first time round. However, the potential for creativity is immense. Your hallways walls can now display a lot more of your own personality than you may have expected.
Use colors that complement each other instead of throwing in an over-cloying mix of sights. You can select monochrome with patterns here and there or patters with monochrome here and there. The colors you can work with are amazing and the sky’s the limit.
The images used in the article have been sourced from gettyimages.