When developing the design of an apartment and carefully, down to the smallest detail, thinking through the interior of each room, for some reason everyone forgets about the hallway. But in apartments, especially old-style ones, this is one of the most difficult rooms to decorate. After the most ideal renovation, the interior of the corridor often remains soulless and cold. The missing element that will give the room expressiveness can be paintings for the hallway. They will transform a limited space, make the interior of the corridor complete and give the entire home uniqueness.
How to choose a painting for the hallway?
Tips for choosing art products for the hallway:
- First of all, you need to choose canvases that will match the general style of the corridor in the apartment.
- The canvases should be placed at eye level.
- For walls in nude and not flashy colors, the ideal solution would be a bright and color-saturated painting, and vice versa.
- When choosing the size of a painting, you should take into account the dimensions of the room; for example, large images are more suitable for a spacious corridor.
- It is not recommended to choose too aggressive scenes.
Is it possible to hang a clock opposite the front door?
Important: In the art of Feng Shui, a clock is a powerful tool for accelerating favorable energy flows.
- It is not recommended to place a clock opposite the front door. Looking at such a watch, a person will feel a lack of time, a rush, which in itself is not a component of a harmonious life.
- According to Feng Shui, there should not be many clocks in the house; among all the clocks present in the house there should be a main clock. It is best placed in the living room, the shape should be round, and the size should be larger than all other clocks in the house.
- There is no place for a clock in the bedroom. A person should listen to his biological clock, and not to the ticking of the clock. There must be a clock in the office. They remind a person that time is money and will bring success and financial well-being.
- The most powerful tool is a mechanical watch. In second place is the hourglass. Electronic watches do not have the smallest power.
Where to place the clock in the house
What painting should I hang in the hallway?
Several options with which you can decorate the room.
Modular
This type consists of several paintings that together represent one image. This design always looks very stylish and is distinguished by its uniqueness, which allows you to completely change your view of decorative items.
The photo shows a modular painting of a diptych in the interior of a modern hallway.
Panel
Provides an excellent opportunity to create an interesting accent on one of the walls. With the help of such interior decoration as a panel, you can achieve amazing effects in the room. This decor will be an excellent solution for the classical style or Art Nouveau, Baroque or Rococo style.
Poster
It is a universal decor that allows you to add bright colors to the interior. Posters with original graphic images, unusual art photographs or other drawings in a neutral frame will be an excellent decoration for a wall or niche.
Oil or pencil paintings
They look very impressive, unite and complete the design of the room and perfectly organize the space, creating a spiritual, ideological and rich atmosphere in it.
The photo shows a hallway with a painting made using the oil painting technique.
Embroidered
Large or small images, cross-stitched, with a correctly selected plot, are considered a rather original decorative element that can enliven almost any setting.
Themes of paintings
Thanks to a specific theme, the canvases not only attract attention, but also give the room a certain color scheme and mood.
Flowers
Various images with peonies, poppies, roses, lilies and other flowers help create a homely and peaceful atmosphere in the room. Floral delicate or bright, calm or dynamic compositions allow you to choose the most ideal option for the interior being created.
N photo of the interior of the hallway and a modular painting with poppies.
Abstract
Energetic, bright and expressive abstract designs are very popular for decorating modern hallway interiors. Various shapes and colors combined with each other each time evoke new associations and moods. In these free images, both the owner of the house and the guest will be able to see something close in spirit.
Reproductions
They fully convey all the technique, structure, color palette and subtle signature style of the artist. High-quality canvases that imitate expensive originals will undoubtedly become the most worthy decoration of the entire hallway. For example, Japanese reproductions in the form of various landscapes, pagodas, national fans, sakura or geishas in traditional robes will add a special exoticism to the space.
The photo shows a corridor and a reproduction of the painting “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.
Panoramas
Wide-format images of the city, with great depth and a wide angle of the viewed space, allow you to achieve the maximum effect of presence in the room.
Technique
Featuring sumptuous themed technical designs and stunning high-speed-inspired transport scenes, the artwork creates a trendy and incredibly stylish design.
Nature
Canvases depicting animals, birds or canvases with waterfalls, rivers and mountain peaks fill the environment with complete harmony and beauty, creating an atmosphere as close as possible to nature.
Rear canvas
They dominate the entire interior, highlight certain details of the room and set its overall tone. Volumetric 3D drawings, thanks to the depth of perception, visually expand the boundaries of the hallway and add additional space to it.
Location and selection of paintings according to Feng Shui
Following the philosophy of Feng Shui, in the hallway it would be best to hang paintings with calmer subjects, such as still lifes, landscapes or images of a person. Drawings symbolizing powerful and uncontrollable flows of water, such as waterfalls, mountain rivers or seas, would also be appropriate.
- To attract money and prosperity into your home, you can place a canvas with a turtle or elephant on the wall in front of the door.
- To attract love, a picture with peonies is especially suitable.
The choice of artistic products must be approached especially seriously, since the extent to which positive energy will prevail in the space depends on the plot, location and meaning of the composition.
Suitable scenes for Feng Shui
An important point is the choice of a suitable subject for the picture. It is worth abandoning scenes of violence, images of various natural disasters, as well as broken objects. It will be favorable to use still lifes, landscapes, as well as portraits of happy and cheerful people in decoration.
A pretty good alternative is to hang family photos in the hallway.
It is necessary that the painting in its style does not violate the overall concept of the hallway. Flirty versions of paintings that fit perfectly into the entrance area will look very touching.
Interior painting design ideas
Interior paintings can completely change the visual perception of the entire corridor.
Narrow paintings
Horizontal or vertical narrow canvases will look best in a larger room with high ceilings.
The photo shows a narrow painting of horses in the interior of a modern hallway.
Vertical
They allow you to visually raise the ceilings and thereby make the corridor taller. Vertical canvases are perfect for placement on narrow walls.
Within
Canvases in frames, harmoniously combined with furniture elements in the hallway, will create a unified style and emphasize refined taste. When using more than one picture in the corridor, it is also advisable to choose frames of the same color and texture for them.
The photo shows the canvas in a white frame, matching the light furniture in the hallway.
Black and white
Canvases in black and white are a separate unusual and original artistic solution. They are able to create an extraordinary and unique design of the corridor.
Backlit
Paintings with wall lamps located above them will fill the interior with a play of colors and shades. In addition, lighting will create additional eye-comfortable lighting in the corridor and make its design truly original and attractive.
The photo shows a corridor and black and white paintings illuminated in the form of wall lamps.
Choice of colors
The paintings in the hallway are selected in accordance with the design of the corridor. In Feng Shui, light shades will attract positive energy into your home. Therefore, it is better to choose wallpaper in a delicate color palette.
Remember, it is not advisable to decorate the corridor in dark, gloomy colors. This will negatively affect communication with other people. Such a house will be visited by a small number of guests.
The best colors of paintings for the hallway are white, gray, peach, beige, light gray, lilac. Other pastel colors are also great. It is worth giving preference to warm shades. The optimal solution is to use paintings to make a smooth transition from one shade to another.
Placing a painting on the wall
Several of the most successful options for placing paintings on the wall:
- Opposite the front door. It is better to decorate an empty wall opposite the front door with an attractive, pleasing composition. It is not advisable to place canvases with aggressive images on this wall.
- Above the chest of drawers. A small painting will look especially good above a chest of drawers. Also, small canvases with a single semantic direction, hung in a row, look no less organic.
- Opposite the mirror. If there is a mirror in the corridor, it is undesirable to place more than one picture opposite it, since the effect of multiple reflections will lead to a visual reduction in the area.
- Above the door. By hanging the canvas above the door, you can visually lower too high ceilings in the hallway.
- In the corner. The corner composition allows you to enliven the corridor space and advantageously emphasize its volumes.
- Along the stairs. To decorate the wall along the stairs, you can use canvases of any size, the main thing is to maintain a diagonal arrangement to achieve a harmonious look.
The photo shows a hallway with a small painting located above the chest of drawers.
Correct placement of paintings will not only show the design of the room in the most advantageous light, but will also adjust the geometry of the space.
Let's not allow stagnation
To attract positive Qi energy, we need a hallway furnished according to Feng Shui. Therefore, it is recommended to brightly illuminate this room, especially the space in front of the door. Stagnation of energy flows will be facilitated by dark places and dim lamps. There will also be an accumulation of negative energy.
You can prevent “scaring away” the creative energy of Qi by hanging two lamps exclusively above the front door.
Breaking down barriers
If you need a hallway according to Feng Shui, then barriers in it are impossible. Therefore, it will have to be built according to all the rules, namely, a minimum of furniture and more free space. It is strictly forbidden to place furniture at the entrance, which will clearly create all possible barriers to the flow of creative Qi.
On the right side of the front door there is the so-called “helpers’ corner”. Only in it is possible the arrangement of various kinds of racks and shelves. In particular, a stand for umbrellas or a hanger for seasonal outerwear is allowed in this place.
Coins for good luck
Everyone dreams of always being successful in their endeavors. To do this, you need very little: just put three Chinese coins with holes in the center under the front door mat.
However, first you need to put them on a red cord. This will also help bring joy and happiness into your home.
Tips for choosing paintings for corridors of various shapes
With proper placement of the canvases, you can radically change the geometry of the space.
- Narrow. Medium or small sized canvases placed horizontally on the walls will help visually expand a narrow corridor. You can also make this room shorter by placing one bright and large painting on one end wall.
- Long. Paintings lined up in one horizontal line at the same height will favorably emphasize the length of the corridor.
- Small hallway. In a small hallway, small paintings will look best; when using large paintings, you need to take into account that they are not too bright and colorful, but contain calm and neutral subjects in light colors.
Lighting and color of the corridor according to Feng Shui
Taoist practice recommends paying special attention to the color of the hallway. According to Feng Shui, the corridor should be made in such a color scheme that there is a unified harmony of the balance of two principles - feminine and masculine. In color interpretation, they look like dark and light, but logically complement each other.
If your hallway walls are light, then add decor with dark elements, and if the walls are dark, add calm, light shades. But don’t overdo it with the decor, just two or three elements will be enough for balance!
Pictures for the corridor
Floor vases and paintings for the corridor according to Feng Shui are the most optimal solutions. The Feng Shui technique does not recommend cluttering the corridor, because this interferes with the flow of living qi energy, so all unnecessary and unnecessary things should be removed from the hallway.
Pay attention to examples from catalogs where the room does not contain anything superfluous, because the cleanliness of the space is the correct corridor according to Feng Shui, the photos clearly demonstrate this.
Lighting
Avoid a hallway that is too dark with dim lighting, which will repel favorable flows. Feng Shui recommends using moderately bright lighting with a warm color in the hallway. For example, lamps in yellow and terracotta shades.
In addition, such lighting will add homeliness and a feeling of comfort to your hallway. Ideally, two identical lamps should be placed exactly above the front door (or on both sides of it at the same level) so that living qi is kept in a bright room and does not flow back when the front door is opened.
Photos in various interior styles
Paintings used in various style concepts.
Classic
In a classic interior, paintings with various landscapes, portraits, animalistic and botanical sketches, as well as tapestries, frescoes or panels would be especially appropriate. The canvases can be decorated with either thin or voluminous frames with silver or gold elements.
The photo shows a classic hallway with a wall decorated with a canvas depicting birds.
Modern
This style involves narrative canvases or graphic panels with drawings of personal taste preference. They will completely change the artistic perception of modern design, adding even more aesthetics and creativity to it.
Scandinavian
Not too pretentious black and white products in strict frames or retro sketches with a snow-white mat will go perfectly with a restrained Scandinavian style.
The photo shows a Scandinavian-style corridor with small black and white pictures on the wall.
Provence
Luxurious floral scenes, marine motifs, beautiful still lifes in the form of antique vases with fruit or bunches of grapes will make the atmosphere of the French style even more cozy, pleasant and calm and will add a certain charm of country life to it.
Loft
In a loft-style hallway, bright and large posters with various inscriptions, abstractions, geometric designs with strict lines, or canvases with modern paintings and graphics would be appropriate. This design will fit very harmoniously into this direction, which does not welcome unnecessary details.
