How to choose paintings in the hallway and corridor: types, themes, design, choice of placement

How to choose a picture for the hallway?

Tips for choosing artwork for your entryway:

• First of all, you need to choose paintings that will correspond to the general style of the corridor in the apartment.
• Canvases should be placed at eye level.
• For walls in nude and not catchy colors, a bright and saturated with color picture will be the ideal solution, and vice versa.
• When choosing the size of the picture, the dimensions of the room should be taken into account, for example, large images are more suitable for a spacious corridor.
• It is not recommended to choose too aggressive plots.

What picture to hang in the hallway?

Several options that can decorate the room.

Modular

This view consists of several paintings that together represent one image. This design always looks very stylish and is distinguished by its originality, which allows you to completely change the look at decorative objects.

In the photo a modular picture of diptych in the interior of a modern hallway.

Panel

It provides an excellent opportunity to create an interesting emphasis on one of the walls. With the help of such interior decorations as panels, you can achieve amazing effects in the room. Such decor will be an excellent solution for the classic direction or the modernist style, baroque or rococo.

Poster

It is a universal decor that allows you to add bright colors to the interior. Posters with original graphic images, unusual art photographs or other drawings in a neutral frame will be an excellent decoration of a wall or a niche.

Oil paintings or pencil

They look very impressive, combine and complete the design of the room and perfectly organize the space, creating a spiritual, ideological and rich atmosphere in it.

In the photo there is an entrance hall with a picture made using the technique of oil painting.

Embroidered

Large or small images, embroidered with a cross, with the right plot, are considered quite an original element of decor that can revive almost any environment.

Themes of paintings

Due to a certain theme, the paintings not only attract attention, but also set the room a certain color and mood.

Flowers

Various images with peonies, poppies, roses, lilies and other flowers help create a homely and peaceful atmosphere in the room. Floral delicate or bright, calm or dynamic compositions allow you to choose the most ideal option for the created interior.

The photo is the interior of the hallway and a modular picture with the image of poppies.

Abstract

Energetic, vibrant and expressive abstract drawings are very popular for decorating modern hallway interiors. Combining different shapes and colors, each time cause new associations and moods. In these free images, both the owner of the house and the guest will be able to see something close in spirit.

Reproductions

Fully convey all the equipment, structure, color palette and subtle author's style of the artist.High-quality paintings that mimic expensive scripts will undoubtedly become the most worthy decoration of the entire hallway. For example, Japanese reproductions in the form of various landscapes, pagodas, national fans, sakura or geisha in traditional robes will bring special exoticism to space.

On the photo there is a corridor and a reproduction from the painting “The Great Wave in Kanagawa” by the Japanese artist Katsushik Hokusai.

Panoramas

Wide-format images of the city, with great depth and wide angle of the viewing space, allow to achieve the maximum effect of presence in the room.

Equipment

Pictures with luxurious themed technical drawings and stunning transport scenes inspired by high speeds form a fashionable and incredibly stylish design.

Nature

Canvases depicting animals, birds or paintings with waterfalls, rivers and mountain peaks fill the atmosphere with complete harmony and beauty, creating an atmosphere as close to nature as possible.

Rear canvas

They are the dominant feature of the entire interior, they emphasize certain details of the room and set the general tone for it. 3D voluminous drawings, due to the depth of perception, visually push the boundaries of the hallway and add additional space to it.

Location and selection of paintings in feng shui

Following the philosophy of Feng Shui, in the hallway it would be best to hang pictures with calmer plots, for example with still lifes, landscapes or a picture of a person. Drawings symbolizing powerful and uncontrolled streams of water, such as waterfalls, mountain rivers or seas, will also be appropriate.

• To attract money and prosperity to the house, you can place a canvas with a turtle or an elephant on the wall in front of the door.
• To attract love, a picture with peonies is especially suitable.

The choice of art products must be approached especially seriously, since it depends on the plot, location and meaning of the composition how much positive energy will prevail in space.

Interior Design Ideas

Interior paintings can completely change the visual perception of the entire corridor.

Narrow paintings

Horizontal or vertical narrow canvases will look best in a more spacious room with high ceilings.

The photo shows a narrow picture of horses in the interior of a modern hallway.

Vertical

They allow to visually raise the ceilings and thereby make the corridor higher. Vertical canvases are great for placement on narrow walls.

Within

Canvases within the framework, harmoniously combined with elements of furniture in the hallway, will create a single style design and emphasize the exquisite taste. When using more than one picture in the corridor, it is also advisable to choose frames of the same color and texture for them.

The photo shows a canvas in a white frame, combined with light furniture in the corridor.

Black and white

Canvases in black and white, are a separate unusual and original artistic solution. They are able to create an extraordinary and unique design of the corridor.

Backlit

Pictures, with wall lights located above them, fill the interior with a game of colors and shades. In addition, the backlight will create additional lighting, comfortable for the eyes, in the corridor and make its design truly original and attractive.

In the photo there is a corridor and black and white paintings with illumination in the form of wall lamps.

Placing a picture on the wall

Some of the most successful options for placing paintings on the wall:

• Opposite the front door. An empty wall opposite the front door should be decorated with an attractive, pleasing look, composition. It is not advisable to place paintings with aggressive images on this wall.
• Over the dresser. A small picture will look especially good above the chest of drawers. Small canvases with a single semantic direction, hung in a row, also look no less organic.
• Opposite the mirror. If there is a mirror in the corridor, it is undesirable to have more than one picture opposite it, since the effect of multiple reflection will lead to a visual decrease in area.
• Over the door. By hanging the canvas over the door, you can visually lower too high ceilings in the hallway.
• To the corner. The angular composition allows you to revive the corridor space and favorably emphasize its volume.
• Along the stairs. To decorate the wall along the stairs, you can use canvases of any size, the main thing is to observe a diagonal arrangement in order to achieve a harmonious look.

In the photo there is an entrance hall with a small picture located above the chest of drawers.

Correct placement of paintings will not only allow you to show the design of the room in the most advantageous light, but also adjust the geometry of the space.

Tips for choosing paintings for corridors of various shapes

With a competent arrangement of paintings, you can radically change the geometry of space.

• Narrow. Canvases of medium or small size, located on the walls in a row horizontally, will help visually expand the narrow corridor. Also, to make this room shorter, you can use the location of one bright and large picture on one end wall.
• A long. Pictures, lined up in one horizontal line at the same height, emphasize the length of the corridor.
• Small entrance hall. In a small hallway, small canvases will look best, when using large paintings, you need to consider that they are not too bright and colorful, but contain calm and neutral plots in bright colors.

Photos in various interior styles

Pictures used in various style concepts.

Classic

In the classic interior, paintings with various landscapes, portraits, animalistic and botanical sketches, as well as tapestries, murals or panels, will be especially appropriate. You can issue paintings, both thin and voluminous frames with silver or gold elements.

In the photo there is a classic entrance hall with a wall decorated with a canvas depicting birds.

Modern

This style involves plot canvases or graphic panels with drawings of personal taste preferences. They will allow you to completely change the artistic perception of modern design, add to it even more aesthetics and creativity.

Scandinavian

Not too elaborate black and white products in strict frames or retro sketches with a snow-white passe-partout, will perfectly combine with a restrained Scandinavian style.

In the photo there is a Scandinavian-style corridor with small black and white pictures on the wall.

Provence

Luxurious floral plots, marine motifs, beautiful still lifes in the form of old vases with fruits or grapes, will make the atmosphere of the French style even more comfortable, pleasant and calm and will bring some charm of country life into it.

Loft

In the hallway in the loft style, bright and large posters with various inscriptions, abstraction, geometric patterns with strict lines or canvases with modern painting and graphics will be appropriate. This design will harmoniously fit into this direction, not welcoming unnecessary details.

Photo gallery

Pictures in the hallway can perform several functions at once. They allow you to decorate the room, create a favorable atmosphere in it, make the design of the space truly unique, fill the corridor with special energy and just give it a very stylish look.