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

Small space organization 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 a light base color.
• Wallpaper with vertical lines is used to increase the height of the walls.
• 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" into a 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... Wallpaper with small patterns and vertical lines virtually expands the space.
• The use of contrasting colors in the decoration. Black and white hallways, as well as rooms decorated in a combination of black-white-red, are able to play in a completely new way and turn a small hallway into a cozy and stylish room.
• Glossy surfaces. Expansion of space can serve not only smooth surfaces of furniture and objects, but also wallpaper with a mirror effect, which can be attributed to coatings with a metallic sheen.

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 option of dark wallpaper with large patterns will also be unsuccessful.

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

Low ceilings can be visually made higher if you take wallpaper of a darker color for the walls. Wallpaper with an embossed pattern, textured wall coverings also contribute to the visual increase of a small room.

Which wallpaper to choose?

For compact hallways and narrow corridors, coverings are chosen that are strong, durable, allowing you to keep the walls clean without much effort. The environmental friendliness of the material is of great importance. Small hallways, as a rule, are closed rooms without windows, so the wallpaper must have good air permeability 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 be easily removed.
• Environmental friendliness and safety for health. Preference is given to finishing materials on a natural basis - "breathing", not conducive to the appearance of fungi on the walls, and also safe in composition.
• Actual design. The choice falls on options that provide ample opportunities for combining with other types of wall coverings, furniture, combination with interior items. Interesting textures, textured solutions are selected.

On the picture the small entrance hall and corridor are decorated with a combination of patterned and striped wallpaper. The alternation of blue and gold stripes creates a rhythmic pattern that expands the space.

Types of wallpaper

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

Color solution

Wallpaper in light colors, a small amount of furniture and accessories - one of the basic principles of interior decoration of a small hallway.

Often, wallpaper is used in combination with other materials - panels for brick and stone, wooden masonry, plastering and painting. A variety of shades and textures, patterns allows them to be used in the design of an accent wall, which, in turn, sets the tone and mood for the entire room.

The limited space of small compact hallways in Russian city apartments, especially in Khrushchev apartments, requires combining two tasks in the design of the walls - visual enlargement of the room and originality. The first is achieved through the use of light colors, contrast, room zoning 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 pleasant impression - a feeling of peace, arrangement, grandeur. The beige color looks noble, does not irritate, it is combined with the solid natural texture of wooden furniture and doors in a small hallway.

Style selection

Classical

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

Minimalism

Another no less popular style - minimalism - can compete with the noble classics, beloved by most apartment owners.For small spaces, it is especially relevant. Wallpaper for a small hallway in the style of minimalism can be bright, monochromatic or with a pronounced print, geometric and floral ornaments.

The room, decorated in the style of minimalism, has little furniture and interior items. A worthy role in giving the room an atmosphere is played by "clothes" for the walls.

On the picture a small entrance hall in the style of minimalism. Laconic color scheme made it possible to give the atmosphere of the room austerity, and the brown color of the wallpaper added volume.

You can apply other styles in the interior solution for small hallways.

Provence and country

Lightness, airiness, light, natural tones are inherent in Provence. Provence-style wallpaper can have a floral ornament, as well as a texture close to natural materials - stone, wood.

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

High tech

Metallic sheen of surfaces, strict geometric shapes, new functional solutions in furniture and accessories are the distinctive features of this style. Wallpaper for a small hallway in high-tech style 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 interior style assumes its own wallpaper design - from small patterns to large patterns. Certain styles require wallpaper textures that reflect the overall theme of the room.

• Plain,suitable for hallways in English, classic styles, as well as in the style of minimalism. Allow brighter details to be applied to the rest of the interior design - furniture and accessories.

• Wallpaper with large patterns and ornaments in the form of rosettes and monograms are inherent in the classic style. Often, in combination with this type of coating, gilding or wooden slats are used, which bring more elegance and a touch of luxury to the design of a small room.

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

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

When choosing wallpaper 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 affiliation 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 decoration of walls, as well as interior items.

• Walls in pastel shades look good with stucco ceilings in white.
• Volumetric cornices and skirting boards in combination with wallpaper in a contrasting color, they delimit the space and give it completeness.
• Split walls horizontally using different shades of wallpaper will allow you to control the visual effect. The 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 at the top.Such a division will avoid the monotony, massiveness and heaviness that arise in the design of the walls with a single color.
• The best solution for colored walls is a combination of three colors. You need to choose one base tone, it will take up the bulk of the space. Wallpaper for a small hallway takes a light shade, and this is the base color. Two more complementary colors can be applied to furniture, accessories and textiles.

Combination with doors

The doors in the hallway correspond to the chosen style of the entire interior. In the design of a classic, doors can be of the natural color of wood in 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, hi-tech can bring freshness and originality to the interior in the form of doors in bright, saturated colors.

Important: you need to glue the wallpaper in the hallway after replacing the doors. If the work is carried out in the reverse order, the wallpaper may be damaged during the installation of the doors.

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

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

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

Dark doors go well with light wallpaper with a discreet pattern and geometric patterns.