How to choose a wallpaper for a small hallway: 70 ideas for design

Small Space Rules

Before realizing the idea of ​​the most refined and comfortable hallway, you should pay attention to the general rules for organizing a small room:

• Walls are the base color of a light shade.
• To increase the height of the walls, wallpapers with vertical lines are used.
• Horizontal stripes visually expand the space.
• A small hallway should not be cluttered with furniture and accessories. Instead, it is appropriate to use one bright piece of furniture - an armchair, a table, a lampshade - combining it in color and shape with additional accessories.

Ways to expand a narrow room

Small compact hallways can look more spacious if you use techniques that visually increase the space.

• Light colors in the decoration of the room. Walls and ceilings of light shades bring “air” to the small room. The distance between the walls, as well as the ceiling and floor seems to be larger.
• Application in the decoration of certain types of patterns. Fine-patterned wallpapers with vertical lines virtually expand the space.
• The use of contrasting colors in the decoration. Black and white hallways, as well as rooms decorated in black-white-red combination, can play in a completely new way and turn a small hallway into a cozy and stylish room.
• Glossy surfaces. Expanding the space can serve not only smooth surfaces of furniture and objects, but also wallpaper with a mirror effect, which include coatings with a metallic tint.

When choosing interior design options for a small hallway, as well as a Khrushchev hallway, it is worth abandoning dark colors in the decoration. The variant of dark wallpaper with large patterns will also be unsuccessful.

Large ornament sizes are acceptable if a narrow corridor and very high ceilings are combined in a small and narrow room - in this case, a large pattern can compensate for extra centimeters and make the room more neat and comfortable.

Low ceilings can be visually made higher if the walls take a wallpaper of a darker color. Embossed wallpaper, textured wall coverings also contribute to the visual enlargement of a small room.

What wallpaper to choose?

For compact hallways and narrow corridors, they choose coatings that are strong, durable, allowing you to keep the walls clean without much effort. Of great importance is the environmental friendliness of the material. Small halls, as a rule, are closed rooms with no windows, so the wallpaper should have good breathability and not emit substances harmful to human health.

When choosing wallpaper for the hallway, various characteristics of the material are taken into account:

• Practicality. Wall coverings should be dense, have a surface resistant to mechanical abrasion. It can be thick smooth wallpaper, from which stains and dirt can easily be removed.
• Environmental friendliness and safety for health. Preference is given to finishing materials on a natural basis - “breathable”, not conducive to the appearance of fungi on the walls, and also safe in composition.
• Actual design. The choice falls on options that give ample opportunity for combining with other types of wall coverings, furniture, combinations with interior items. Interesting textures, textured solutions are selected.

On the picture the small entrance hallway and the corridor are decorated using combined wallpaper with a pattern and stripes. The alternation of blue and gold stripes creates a rhythmic pattern that expands the space.

Types of Wallpaper

The most suitable for small halls are paper, non-woven and bamboo wallpapers. Such rooms can also be decorated with vinyl, textile and cork wallpaper.

Color scheme

Wallpaper in bright colors, a small amount of furniture and accessories is one of the basic principles of interior design of a small hallway.

Often wallpapers are used in combination with other materials - panels for brick and stone, wood masonry, plastering with painting. A variety of shades and textures, drawings allows you to use them in the design of accent walls, which, in turn, sets the tone and mood of the entire room.

The limited space of small compact hallways in Russian city apartments, especially in Khrushchev, requires two tasks to be combined in the design of the walls - a visual increase in the room and originality. The first is achieved through the use of light colors, contrast, zoning of the room and other techniques.

The most popular color scheme in modern hallways is various shades of beige. Together with the classic style in the design of the entire room, this design leaves a good impression - a sense of peace, orderliness, greatness. The beige color looks noble, not annoying, combined with the solid natural texture of wooden furniture and doors in a small entrance hall.

Style selection

Classical

To give freshness to the proven classics, as well as to visually increase the area of ​​the small hallway, wallpapers are combined with painting the ceiling in white, as well as dividing the walls into sections decorated in different colors.

Minimalism

With the noble classics, loved by most apartment owners, another equally popular style can compete - minimalism. For small rooms, it is especially relevant. Wallpaper for a small hallway in the style of minimalism can be bright, plain or with a pronounced print, geometric and floral ornaments.

The room, decorated in a minimalist style, has little furniture and interior items. “Clothing” for the walls plays a worthy role in giving the room an atmosphere.

On the picture small hallway in the style of minimalism. Laconicism in the color scheme allowed to add rigor to the atmosphere of the room, and the brown color of the wallpaper added volume.

You can apply other styles in the interior design for small halls.

Provence and Country

Provence is characterized by lightness, airiness, light, natural tones. Wallpaper in the style of Provence can have a floral ornament, as well as a texture close to natural materials - stone, wood.

In country, in contrast to Provence, in the interiors you can see brutal accessories - a massive stool cut down from wood or coarse weaving rugs. Wallpaper in this style can have dark shades, to match the tree and stone from which village houses are built.

High tech

The metallic sheen of surfaces, strict geometric shapes, new functional solutions in furniture and accessories are distinctive features of this style. Wallpaper for a small high-tech hallway can have a metallic color, as well as all kinds of “acid” tones in a stylish combination with classic, calm shades.

Scandinavian

It is characterized by restraint, minimalism, calm color schemes. The main color is white. Wallpaper for a small hallway in the Scandinavian style can be white, light gray, as well as other, mainly pastel colors.

Drawings and Design

Each style of interior involves its own wallpaper design - from a small pattern to large patterns. Certain styles require wallpaper with a texture that displays the general theme of the room.

• Solid colorssuitable for halls in English, classic styles, as well as in the style of minimalism. Allow you to apply brighter details in the rest of the interior design - in furniture and accessories.

• Wallpaper with a large pattern and ornament in the form of sockets and monograms are inherent in the classical style. Often in combination with this type of coating, gilding or wooden battens are used, which add to the design of a small room more elegance and a touch of luxury.

• Wallpaper with images of various plants used in the style of provence and country. Floral ornament is also often found in oriental style.

• Textured wallpaper help create a more lively and interesting foundation for decorating a small hallway in modern styles such as high-tech. The picture may be abstract and not clear, but it is able to set the tone for the atmosphere of the room.

When choosing wallpapers for a small hallway, the general style of the room is taken into account. Wallpaper with a pronounced style of drawing can be glued to one wall, thereby emphasizing the stylistic identity of the interior.

On the picture wallpaper with a pattern in bright orange tones made the wall a full-fledged element of the interior, echoing in color with the rest of the details.

Combination

Wallpaper for a small hallway is chosen based on their ability to visually expand the space. Light wallpapers will not look faded if combined with various design elements, which can be in the form of additional colors in the design of walls, as well as interior items.

• Pastel Walls look good with stucco moldings of white ceilings.
• Volumetric cornices and skirting boards In combination with wallpaper of contrasting color, they delimit space and give it completeness.
• Horizontal wall separation using different shades of wallpaper will allow you to control the visual effect. Dark wallpaper at the bottom of the wall is an “apron” from the floor to the middle of the wall, and light shades of the same color are at the top. Such a separation will avoid the monotony, massiveness and heaviness arising in the design of the walls with a single color.
• The best solution for colored walls is a combination of three colors. It is necessary to choose one basic tone, it will occupy the bulk of the space. Wallpaper for a small hallway takes a light shade, and this is the base color. Two additional colors can be used in furniture, accessories and textiles.

Combination with doors

The doors in the hallway correspond to the chosen style of the whole interior. In the design of the classic doors can be a natural wood color of various shades - from light beige to dark brown. In the interior of a small room in the style of Provence, Scandinavian, minimalism, the doors can be white, and pop art, high-tech can bring freshness and originality to the interior in the form of doors in bright, saturated colors.

Important: to paste wallpaper in the hallway after replacing the doors. If the work is performed in the reverse order, the wallpaper may be damaged during the installation of the doors.

Doors and wallpapers should not be of the same tone, otherwise the door will simply be lost against the general background. The exception is white doors in interiors, where space is formed due to additional elements in the design - furniture and accessories of expressive colors, colored sections of walls.

The white door in the design of the small hallway does not fit the wallpaper of deep, dark colors. The door in this case will look inappropriate light spot.

A door in bright colors can be combined with bright elements in the interior - vertical stripes of wallpaper, a wall opposite the door, a frame of rectangular interior items, such as paintings or photo frames. Doors will not be lost against the background of light walls, if the coating will have a color one shade lighter than the tone of the doors.

Dark doors blend well with light wallpapers with a discreet pattern and geometric patterns.