The best ideas for furnishing a corridor

Today we will provide you with the best ideas and some interesting ideas for furnishing a corridor. The latter represents a space in the house that is often and willingly neglected, without paying the right attention to its furnishings.

Whether it is narrow, long, or square or wide and spacious, a corridor must be furnished with the same attention as the other rooms in the house. If placed at the entrance, a corridor is in fact a sort of business card and first impression of your home.

Often this transit area is not illuminated with natural light and is therefore dark. In the following paragraphs we will learn how to give value and make a corridor bright.

How to furnish a corridor

The corridor is an environment present in many Italian homes, especially in residential units built during the 70s and 80s: at that time the concept of open space had not yet spread.

In old houses the corridor represents the first approach to the home and for this reason it is important to make the most of this space in the best possible way. The corridor is also a home space that actually connects the different rooms of a home.

Before furnishing a corridor, it is a good idea to consider its size and shape with the utmost attention: a particularly small and narrow corridor will certainly not be able to accommodate furniture unless you decide to take some technical precautions.

On the contrary, a larger and more spacious corridor can become a functional area of the house, being able to accommodate furniture, furnishings and accessories.

How to furnish a long and narrow corridor

A long and narrow corridor by its very nature does not lend itself to the preparation of furniture and furnishing accessories. For the furnishing of this space you could instead opt for the preparation of a small console or alternatively a bench and a coat hanger. In this way it will be possible to create a small welcoming space for your guests.

If you have decided to choose the arrangement of a console, the latter must be space-saving and of small thickness, so as to facilitate the movement and movement of people.

Among the ideas for decorating a long and narrow corridor is, for example, the placing of paintings on the walls. Alternatively you can decide to arrange frames, photographs or mirrors, the latter being important to give the illusion of being in a larger room.

Other furnishing elements compatible with a long and narrow corridor are the built-in wardrobes, clothes hangers and shelves. These furnishings are not invasive and generally able to adapt to a particularly long and narrow environment without further limiting the available space.

A very suggestive idea for the furnishing of a long and narrow corridor could be to put on the walls an installation of frames collected over time, so as to transform your own corridor into a real personal art gallery. 

How to furnish a large corridor

Furnishing a large entrance corridor is probably easier than completing the furnishing of a small corridor. However, even in this case it is important to pay the utmost attention to some tricks capable of making the most of your spaces. A large and spacious corridor can be used to accommodate functional furniture and furnishing accessories, such as wardrobes, drawer units and shoe boxes.

Also in this case it is advisable to create a space in which to welcome guests and where to store their coats and jackets. Shoe cabinets are furniture that can be perfectly integrated in a corridor characterized by important dimensions. This furniture is also perfect to furnish the classic sleeping area corridor, adjacent to the respective bedrooms or wardrobe room.

In case the corridor is really characterized by a particularly large size it is also possible to think of a small storage room, made with the help of plasterboard walls.

Important advice for the furnishing of a corridor

Here are some further tips to complete the furnishing of the corridor of your home, according to its characteristics and peculiarities.

Furnishing a high corridor

For the furnishing of a high corridor you can in these circumstances decide to lower the ceiling with the help of a false ceiling made of plasterboard (maximum height 250). Inside the false ceiling you can also decide to put LED spotlights, in order to make your space brighter.

If you do not intend to work on lowering the ceiling of your corridor, you can still decide to colour the ceiling using a dark colour shade. In this way you will create a visual appearance that will give you the impression that you are in a corridor with a lower ceiling.

Furnishing a blind corridor

In case there is a blind corridor in your home, you can decide to use the last part of it with the arrangement of a wall cupboard: in this way you can make the most of the space you have available. In this regard, our advice is to create a full-height wardrobe, painting wardrobe and walls in the same colour.

The right lighting in a corridor

In a hallway, just as in every room in one's own home, lighting is an element of fundamental importance, which must never be overlooked in perfecting the furnishings.

In particular for a corridor, the most used installation in recent years for lighting is represented by the above mentioned spotlights set inside the false ceiling. Recessed spotlights are an excellent solution for making the corridor of the house bright, warm and welcoming.

Colours and colours of a corridor

As far as the choice of colours and colours for the walls of your corridor is concerned, our advice is to opt for the typical box effect colour: paint walls and ceiling in the same colour, in order to create the classic box effect.

Alternatively you can choose to paint only the lower part of the wall with a "painted boiserie", which fills and decorates the space.

Materials used to furnish a corridor

In the previous paragraph we mentioned the paneling. However, there is another material particularly suitable for a corridor: we are talking about wallpaper. The latter represents a particularly versatile solution for the furnishing of a corridor: in this way we can give vent to our imagination and choose the design that best suits our stylistic needs and is more in line with our aesthetic taste.

The market offers many wallpaper models, characterized by the most varied fantasies and designs. The use of wallpaper undoubtedly represents a modern style of furnishing a corridor. The most daring can decide to put wallpaper not only on the walls but also on the ceiling of the corridor.

The mistakes not to make in furnishing a corridor

One of the most common mistakes that are made in furnishing, or rather in "not furnishing" the hallway of the house is to leave the space as it is, without intervening and neglecting the potential of this environment of the house.

Another common mistake is not valuing the light inside a corridor. In fact, a corridor can be furnished in the best way but without an intelligent and structured intervention on the lighting elements, the furnishing of the corridor may not be properly enhanced.

Finally, the classic mistake that is made in furnishing a corridor characterised by limited space is to overload the environment with unhelpful furnishings or furnishing accessories that will further limit the available space and their functionality.