The first room that welcomes us when we return home after a long and tiring day, a pleasant holiday or a small walk is the vestibule and hallways in our home. Our corridors are designed for us to move from room to room, but with the right planning and arrangement solutions, they can contribute to
storage and organisation solutions in our home. Here you can find aesthetic and useful products that will make your seemingly dysfunctional areas at home functional.
Hallway furniture
When designing your hallways, you can start by planning the space and choosing the right furniture as in every room of the house. Hallway furniture suitable for your space and the storage solution you want is perfect for your belongings that you cannot find space in other rooms of your home. For a sample home, you can place coat stands and hallway wardrobes in the entrance area for your jackets, cardigans and scarves. In order not to carry the dirt outside into your home, you can continue by choosing modular shoe racks according to your shoes. If you have a convenient place to put on and take off your shoes, you can use stools and benches to create a seating area. If you have space and need for more storage space, you can utilise this space with chest of drawers with different drawer spaces and designs.
When examining your furniture solutions in your hallways, storerooms and pantries it is impossible not to mention storage and organisation furniture. Entrances, like all rooms of the house, are not built equally in every house. Considering your storage needs, aesthetic taste and installation preference, it is the ideal solution to design unique and personalised storage systems for each home according to your own preferences. For this, you can consider open shelving units, open wardrobes and other open storage systems. Open storage systems offer you visible and easily accessible solutions for organisation. For example, you can easily see what is inside the transparent boxes that you will place on different shelves, and you can get them without having to open any doors or lids. By combining some boxes with lids along with some decorative storage products such as wicker baskets, you can organise your open storage unit not only functionally but also visually. If you have areas you want to use in your corridors and small decoration objects you want to put, but you do not want to use floor-length cabinets, you can evaluate wall cabinets and shelves.
You do not need to use only the furniture designed for the entrance hall, you can use some of the regular wardrobes you use in the bedroom in your entrance and corridors. You can complete the inside of the wardrobes with different interior organisers, just like the wardrobes in your bedroom.
No matter what kind of storage unit you design in your foyer, you can complement this storage unit with boxes of different sizes, models and materials. For example, shoe boxes allow you to store seasonal shoes well when not in use. Boxes with compartments allow you to stack items of different sizes and functions in the same unit. If you want to visually complement the storage boxes you use in your storage solutions, you can add baskets of different sizes and models to your unit. By combining plastic boxes and plastic baskets, you can achieve a consistent composition with the same materials but different styles.
Decorating hallways, entrances and corridors
When we walk out the door in the morning rush, the first thing we all do is look in the mirror. Mirrors can also be used to make small spaces look bigger. Wall mirrors that you can put on your bench or shoe rack; table mirrors that you can place on your chest of drawers and standing mirrors that you can see yourself completely when you leave the house not only serve a practical function, but also add visuality as a home decoration object. You can choose your full-length mirrors as wall-mounted or free-standing according to your wall space. Do not forget to mount any decoration objects and furniture that you will mount on the wall with the methods recommended in the user manual for your safety.
You can use different lighting products to make it bright and visible from the first time you enter the house. For example, you can use different integrated lighting for the inside of your hallway wardrobes. By using spotlights on the walls and ceilings, you can create a clear light source that will not tire your eyes.
You can also complement the surfaces in your foyers with other decorative accessories. You can use vases and artificial flowers together, or even create your own image by using different trinkets. You can also use decorative plates and bowls for your keys and small objects. By combining frames with family pictures, you can display your memories and life from the first room of your home.
Storage ideas for a small, smart and stylish hallway
Storage in a small hallway can be a challenge, especially if you’d like it to be a tidy, welcoming space with a bit of stylish fi nesse. Here are some ideas proving that functional and pretty – with quite a bit of smartness too – is no impossible equation.
Easy access hallway storage
A long, narrow space, their hallway houses all the storage they both need to head out into the world. Shoe cabinets keep all their boots and trainers easily accessible, while hooks take care of umbrellas, walking sticks and seasonal outerwear. It all goes to show that by dividing, you really can conquer.