Modern Hallway Design for Small Spaces

When we say modern decor, we must understand a large dose of personality, a game where we are allowed to use all the tricks of the styles that we enjoy. The hallway space is an ideal area where we can practice our decorating skills, taking care to achieve two major aspects: functionality and good taste.

Open the GalleryHallway is the first area you come into contact with when entering a house for the first time, the one that creates the first impression of the style, personality and atmosphere that you will discover in the other rooms. In open-space apartment projects, hallways have been included in the living space.

For other apartment models, however, the hallway remains that narrow space where coats, shoe racks and large mirrors usually end up. But what if it could be more than that?

To create spaciousness, we will choose light, pale shades for the walls of small hallways. Be careful though not dull! Since apartment hallways are not equipped with windows, we will try to give brightness through the color palette white, cream, light yellow, light green.

If generous hallways allow for bold colors, including in furniture or accessories, in small hallways we will recreate the contemporary touch from details, limiting ourselves to furniture that does not absorb light through its shades. We will thus choose natural cherry wood, birch, apple etc and we will not paint them.

A shabby hallway will be extremely interesting for those who cross your threshold. Frame some photos you like, make sure you always have an antique vase with fresh flowers or seasonal natural elements (dried leaves in all shades of rust, lavender or dried basil, immortelles etc) in the decor and leave it visible, just as an artistic touch, a spectacular hat or a pair of crocheted gloves.

Keep a patina box handy for things you use frequently (house keys, car, card etc).

An eclectic hallway will look good if you give the walls a unfinished look, illuminate it with string lights and decorate it with atypical details: oversized wooden or metal letters, a giant flower vase that can become an umbrella or shopping bag holder, metal hangers hung directly on the wall.

Improvise supports for your urban accessories - bicycle, scooter, skateboard - and let them speak about your hobbies.

Small hallways can exude a vintage air if you furnish them with objects from other times: a landline phone, a dresser from an antique shop and a copper teapot (or any other object whose dull shine completes the concept).