Choosing wallpaper for a compact hallway: 70 interior design ideas.

Rules for organizing a small space

Before you bring to life the idea of the most elegant and cozy hallway, you should pay attention to the general rules for organizing a small room:

• Walls – a basic color of a light shade.
• To increase the height of the walls, use wallpaper with vertical lines.
• 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 larger.
• Using certain types of patterns in the decoration. Wallpaper with a small pattern and vertical lines virtually expands the space.
• Using contrasting colors in decoration. Black and white hallways, as well as rooms decorated in a combination of black-white-red, can play in a completely new way and turn a small hallway into a cozy and stylish room.
• Glossy surfaces. Not only smooth surfaces of furniture and objects can serve to expand the space, but also wallpaper with a mirror effect, which include coatings with a metallic sheen.

When choosing interior design options for a small hallway, as well as a “Khrushchev” hallway, you should avoid dark colors in the decoration. Dark wallpaper with large patterns will also be a bad choice.

Large patterns are acceptable if a small and narrow room combines a narrow corridor and very high ceilings – in this case, a large pattern can compensate for the extra centimeters and make the room neater and more comfortable.

Low ceilings can be visually made higher if you use darker wallpaper for the walls. Embossed wallpaper and textured wall coverings also help to visually enlarge a small room.

Which wallpaper to choose?

For compact hallways and narrow corridors, choose durable, long-lasting coverings that allow you to keep the walls clean without much effort. The environmental friendliness of the material is of great importance. Small hallways are usually closed rooms without windows, so the wallpaper should 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. This can be thick smooth wallpaper from which stains and dirt are easily removed.
• Environmental friendliness and health safety. Preference is given to finishing materials on a natural basis – “breathing”, not contributing 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, and combinations with interior items. Interesting textures and textural solutions are selected.

In the photo, a small hallway and corridor are decorated using combined wallpaper with a pattern and stripes. The alternation of blue and gold stripes creates a rhythmic pattern, which expands the space.

Types of wallpaper

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

Absolutely natural, made from plant materials without the use of harmful chemicals. They have a natural color, which can be different, depending on the country of growth of the plant – milky white, golden, pistachio, a rich palette of shades of brown and red. Bamboo wallpaper can be used as a covering for the entire wall, as well as for the design of small hallways with a combination of different materials.

Color scheme

Light-colored wallpaper, a small amount of furniture and accessories are one of the main principles of interior design of a small hallway.

Often wallpaper is used in combination with other materials – panels imitating brick and stone, wood masonry, plastering with painting. The variety of shades and textures, patterns allows you to use them 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-era buildings, requires combining two tasks in the wall design – visual enlargement of the space and originality. The first is achieved through the use of light colors, contrast, zoning of the space and other techniques.

The most popular color scheme in modern hallways is various shades of beige. Coupled with the classic style in the design of the entire room, this design leaves a pleasant impression – a feeling of peace, order, and grandeur. Beige looks noble, does not irritate, combines with a solid natural texture of wooden furniture and doors in a small hallway.

Choosing a style

Classic

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 white, as well as dividing the walls into sections decorated in different colors.

Minimalism

Another equally popular style, minimalism, can compete with the noble classics, beloved by most apartment owners. It is especially relevant for small rooms. Wallpaper for a small hallway in the minimalist style can be bright, plain or with a pronounced print, geometric and floral patterns.

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

The photo shows a small hallway in the minimalist style. The laconicism of the color scheme allowed to give the atmosphere of the room austerity, and the brown color of the wallpaper added volume.

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

Provence and country

Provence is characterized by lightness, airiness, light, natural tones. Provence style wallpaper can have a floral pattern, as well as a texture close to natural materials – stone, wood.

In country, unlike Provence, you can see brutal accessories in the interiors – a massive stool carved from 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 the high-tech style can be metallic, as well as all sorts of “acid” tones in a stylish combination with classic, calm shades.

Scandinavian

Characterized by restraint, minimalism, calm color solutions. 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

Every Each interior style requires its own wallpaper design – from a small pattern to large patterns. Certain styles require wallpaper with a texture that reflects the overall theme of the room.

• Monochrome, suitable for hallways in English, classical styles, as well as in the style of minimalism. Allows you to use brighter details in the rest of the interior design – in furniture and accessories.

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

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

• Wallpaper with a textured pattern helps to create a more lively and interesting basis for decorating a small hallway in modern styles such as high-tech. The pattern may be abstract and unclear, but it can set the tone for the atmosphere of the room.

When choosing wallpaper for a small hallway, the overall style of the room is taken into account. Wallpaper with a distinct pattern style can be pasted on one wall, thereby emphasizing the stylistic affiliation of the interior.

In the photo, wallpaper with a pattern in bright orange tones made the wall a full-fledged element of the interior, echoing the color of the other details.

Combination

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

• Pastel-colored walls look good with white ceiling moldings.
• Volumetric cornices and baseboards in combination with contrasting-colored wallpaper delimit the space and give it completeness.
• Horizontal division of walls using different shades of wallpaper will allow you to control the visual effect. Dark wallpaper in the lower part of the wall – an “apron” from the floor to the middle of the wall, and light shades of the same color – in the upper part. Such division will help to avoid monotony, massiveness and heaviness that arise when decorating 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 is taken in a light shade, and this is the basic color. Two more additional colors can be used in furniture, accessories and textiles.

Combination with doors

The doors in the hallway match the chosen style of the entire interior. In the classic design, the doors can be of natural wood color of various shades – from light beige to dark brown. In the interior of a small room in the Provence, Scandinavian, minimalist style, the doors can be white, and pop art, high-tech allow you to 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 done in the reverse order, the wallpaper may be damaged during the installation of the doors.

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

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

A door in light tones can be combined with light elements in the interior – vertical stripes of wallpaper, a wall opposite the door, framing of rectangular interior items, such as paintings or photo frames. The doors will not get lost against the background of light walls if the coating is one shade lighter than the tone of the doors.

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