What wallpaper to choose in the corridor?

The entrance hall is a room where everyone happens: both owners and guests - it is impossible to pass by it. It is on this part of the apartment that your guests may have a first impression of you, and even your lifestyle. Therefore, this part of the housing should be given a lot of attention. It's great if you have a spacious house, because often, they save on the corridors. And if the apartment is Khrushchev, then, as a rule, they have small-sized corridors. You should think carefully about which wallpaper to choose in the hallway. We will deal with this issue in this article.

Important! Wallpaper should be practical and visually adjust the space. Make the dark corridor lighter, narrow - expand and so on. It is important to adhere to certain rules, and then any room can be brought to perfection by fraud. You can choose a design to your taste, but it should be in harmony with the furniture and the rest of the housing space.

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Corridor Design

As for the design of the hallway, the choice here is great. It is important to choose the right color palette for wallpaper, their ornament and combination with the color of the floor and ceiling:

• Striped wallpaper for the corridor has been relevant for many years. Ideally, striped wallpaper is suitable for a large, square and bright hallway. There is no need to invent anything new, they will harmoniously fit in. If you have a narrow room, then visually the strip will stretch it even more.

Important! The most common way of pasting striped walls is to half the wall, imitating panels at the bottom. You can extend the space with a strip or a strip-like pattern.

• Wallpaper in a horizontal strip, it is advisable to glue on parallel and “short” walls. So visually the room will seem a little longer.
• Panels are a classic look of a decor of a hall. There is an opinion that the design of panels is irrelevant, but it is they that can fix the corridor in Khrushchev. This type of design solution is quite practical - you can paste over everything with one collection, or you can pick up the top with a picture in a flower or plain, and the bottom in a strip.
• Wallpaper in the hallway with abstraction, probably, will suit better than all other types. With a variety of patterns, you can easily hide minor errors.

Important! The assortment is very happy, and pricing is designed for a buyer with any income level. If you pick up a dark pattern and a light tone, then minor scratches and street dirt will not be so noticeable.

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Wall mural for the corridor

In the interior of the corridor the photo wallpaper looks stylish and beautiful. It can be anything - cars, daisies, dandelions. However, this type of wallpaper for the hallway is difficult to choose - here is a whole science. If you have a large, spacious hall, this is wonderful - any photo wallpaper is perfect for it. But what to do with the corridor in the apartment Khrushchev?

For narrow corridors, when choosing photo wallpaper, the following rules should be considered:

• Photowall-paper with 3D effect or large ornament will visually reduce the size of the hallway.
• The bright colors of the photo wallpaper should be in harmony with pastel colors.This combination of colors will not put pressure on the psyche and vision.
• Dark tones will visually narrow the corridor.
• In small apartments, you should not use photo wallpaper with small drawings and flowers, because for this type of photo wallpaper you need a large amount of light.

Important! Wallpaper with plots or large images can be combined with other types of wallpapers. A combination with liquid wallpaper looks very impressive. The advantage of liquid wallpaper is that it does not require too careful preparation of the walls before decoration, and the result achieved using this type of wallpaper can be very unexpected in terms of capabilities and design.

Even for a long and narrow hallway, the design with the help of photowall-paper will add additional space in the room.

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Tips for choosing a wallpaper in a small corridor

The entrance hall in the apartment of Khrushchev is small and narrow, so it is difficult to design it with all the fashion trends. However, listening to the advice of designers, you can avoid many mistakes when choosing wallpaper in a small corridor.

The basic principles of designing a small corridor:

• Do not use dark tones (green, blue, brown, black) - you get a lifeless, gloomy hallway.
• Striped wallpaper, a neutral pattern visually correct the room.
• The combination of wallpaper will add beauty to the room.

Important! Avoid unnecessary items in the interior so that the hallway is not overloaded.

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What wallpaper to glue in the hallway? We consider options

In view of the foregoing, the conclusion suggests itself that gluing washable wallpapers in the hallway would be appropriate. In addition, it is desirable that they have a moisture resistant effect. The entrance hall is the place where you often have to do the cleaning, so the wall covering should be appropriate.

Without a doubt, materials that have a low level of resistance to moisture, and generally low durability should not be used. So how to choose wallpaper in the corridor? The answer is simple: choose those that can last a long time, given the difficult operating conditions.

A great example of such a coating is vinyl wallpaper. To date, in the photo catalogs of many manufacturers a wide range of colors of vinyl wallpaper on a non-woven basis is offered.

Important! It is vinyl cloths that are a wonderful example of washable wallpaper with a moisture-resistant effect. Their price may be different, so any of the buyers has the opportunity to choose exactly what suits him, based on the criterion of value.

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How to glue combined wallpaper in the hallway?

If you do not want, or for some reason cannot use washable, moisture-proof wallpapers on all walls, you can combine various ideas in the interior design of the corridor:

• Quite often, the combination is carried out according to the principle: a lighter top and a darker bottom. This is a very good idea in terms of practicality, because the lower sections of the walls are always more prone to contamination.
• The lower part can be glued with moisture-resistant wallpaper, and the upper one can be completely covered with any that you like.
• In addition, a good option would be pasting with colorful canvases, wallpaper with multi-colored contrasting ornament or in a flower.
• If you have pets, then it will be useful to pick up such a combination of wallpaper in which certain areas will be pasted with special anti-vandal paintings that can withstand the effects of dog or cat claws.
• Bamboo wallpaper is one of the most popular in the interior of the hallway. Their difference from the rest is a high level of moisture absorption. But you should not glue them yourself.

Important! You can combine bamboo wallpaper in the hallway on the principle of zoning - this is when one or several parts of the room stand out for some specific purpose.

• It is advisable to paste over the more easily soiled wallpaper on those places that will be least affected by pollution.

The combination of different colors and wallpapers, as well as wallpapers with different characteristics will be not only attractive and beautiful, but also very practical.

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What color wallpaper is best glued in the hallway?

When choosing a color for wallpaper in the hallway, it is advisable to be guided by several rules:

• First of all, you should start from what shape and size the room itself has. If the hallway is narrow, then dark tones will make it even darker and visually small. Therefore, in such cases, it is desirable to use lighter tones or combine shades.
• Remember that vertical stripes on the wallpaper visually make the ceilings higher, while slightly narrowing the room.
• If you opted for wallpaper with a horizontal strip, then this will help you visually expand the space, but the ceiling will seem lower.

Important! It is also undesirable to apply bright irritating shades. They are permissible only when combined or fragmented in some interior details.

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Creating zones using two types of wallpaper

In the process of interior decoration using a combination, it must be taken into account that the wallpaper used in the Khrushchev corridor must match the style. For example, for a long hallway, the use of a light top and a dark bottom would be ideal.

Important! For the strength of the joints, it is advisable to glue with special borders for joining finishing materials.

In hallways with a small area, you should not experiment with wallpaper colors, because any, even the smallest oversight in the design can ruin everything, which cannot be said about spacious rooms.

Important! By the way, when choosing wallpapers, it is not necessary to set their cost as the main condition. With any design of the hallway, expensive wallpapers may simply not fit into the general style of your interior. Therefore, when purchasing coatings, it is advisable to proceed from the characteristics of your corridor.

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The space of the square corridor can be made wider

You can choose almost any wall covering for a small hallway, but for small square rooms, finishing materials that can make the imperfections of the room invisible are especially good:

• This mainly applies to wallpaper with vinyl chips. Such a small pattern will increase the space, due to the fact that against the general background it looks small.
• Canvases with elongated vertical patterns can also be used.

Important! Any drawing should be much smaller in relation to other objects that are in the hallway.

In order to expand the space, the use of combined wallpapers will be successful. They can be combined in a non-standard way:

• the entrance hall is decorated in dark tones;
• Use the gradient to brighten the rest.

Important! Wallpaper can be glued not only on the walls, but also on furniture, for example, on a door or cabinet. This can create an effect of completeness and distract guests from the small size of the hallway.

In addition, the use of 3D photo wallpaper is considered a good option for creating visually expanded space. They seem to portray additional reality, so the incoming person has the impression that there is an exit to another world from the corridor.

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How to glue wallpaper in the hallway?

You can start wallpapering the corridor from any door. But here you have to be patient. Despite the fact that the halls are narrow and small in size, there are many small areas where you have to customize and glue small pieces of wallpaper.

All other rules are similar to generally accepted:

• Initially, the walls are being prepared. They are cleaned of the old coating. This must be done.
• Next, wipe the cloths with a slightly damp cloth in order to clean them from dust and allow them to dry thoroughly.
• For each type of wallpaper, special glue is selected.As a rule, the manufacturer indicates the instructions for its preparation on the packaging.
• Glue should be applied from the center to the edges.

Important! If you have wallpaper coverings that can be classified as heavy, then you should also coat the wall. Glue them butt. Only paper wallpapers are lapped, but for hallways they are irrelevant.

• Then, the glued sheets are smoothed and evened from the center to the edges, so that there are no air bubbles, as well as glue residues.
• The bottom of the wallpaper, which will then be bolted with skirting boards, should be trimmed before the glue has completely dried.

Important! After gluing, you need to wait about a day until the glue is completely dry. At this time, it is important to avoid temperature extremes and drafts in this room.

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Try yourself in the role of designer and do not be afraid to experiment, because this is your home, and who else but you should be puzzled so that every corner of it is perfectly decorated.