The yellow color in the interior of the hallway attracts attention from the first second after you cross the threshold of your apartment or house. It attracts and enchants with its warmth. Its properties and features of combination with other participants in the color palette provide a wide field for experimentation and a lot of interesting combinations
. Isn’t this a reason to dedicate the first room of your home to such a sunny and cheerful shade? And advice from Westwing experts will help you do it right.
Basic shades of yellow
When talking about the color yellow, many people associate it with a chicken, a sunflower or the sun. Of course, in this case, yellow is perceived as a spectrally pure color with all its inherent brightness.
But, in fact, it is more multifaceted and diverse. Its main shades are:
- Sandy yellow.
- Light yellow.
- Straw.
- Bright yellow.
- Orange-yellow.
- Lemon yellow.
- Electric yellow.
The variety of yellow is provided either by lightening the tone by adding white to it, or by mixing in a color, such as green, resulting in a lemon tint.
Ceiling design and lighting selection
An equally important stage in the design of the corridor is the design of the ceiling. You need to think through not only the materials, but also the lighting, since it is attached here. When choosing lighting you need to be guided by the following indicators:
- Ceiling height;
- Corridor area;
- The color scheme of the room.
Light always adds volume and it would be stupid not to use this technique.
Designers advise installing several lamps to increase space and eliminate some of the enclosed space. In this case, it is better to make the ceiling classically light and smooth. Let's consider several lighting options.
- Built-in small lamps, evenly distributed over the entire area, will not look simple. On the contrary, they will emphasize the originality of the wall design and the decor of the corridor.
- Multi-level lighting will make it possible to create a more interesting and complex ceiling design. But keep in mind that in a small corridor it will look heavy and awkward.
- Lamps built into the floor will become an original additional source of light. You can also think about installing a stylish floor lamp (if space allows).
- If there is a closet in the hallway, its lower part can also be equipped with lighting (for example, an LED strip).
A suspended ceiling or specially installed plasterboard boxes can be used as the basis for built-in lighting, creating additional volume.
When choosing a material for finishing the ceiling in the hallway, you should definitely take into account the level of humidity in the apartment and possible temperature changes.
See also: Hallway designs of various layouts
Properties of yellow color
The main features that are inherent in yellow are:
Its ability to brighten an interior that has insufficient lighting levels.
Warm yellow shades, which have a rich hue and are formed by mixing orange, visually reduce the space. This must be taken into account if you want to make bright, warm yellow walls.
As opposed to a warm shade, yellow walls in the interior will increase the space, but only if they have a cool shade.
Combination with other colors
Gold and black. Black color is stylish for any room, it gives it chic. The combination does not make the room too colorful and creates a feeling of carelessness. White reduces the concentration of yellow and visually enlarges the corridor.
Saffron and green. Such shades create an incredible summer, sunny design. By choosing the same color saturation, creating a smooth transition will make the finish extraordinary.
Combination with red. When choosing a yellow finish, you will not regret placing red and scarlet shades in the decor. A small ottoman, table, shelf for small items will become accents. There should be few of them, no more than 3 elements. In this case, the wallpaper should not be very bright, but have a paler, cooler color.
Orange and lemon. “Native” colors can also be a good addition. The walls should be yellow, and the decorative elements should be richer, orange. This could be a photo frame, curtains.
Purple contrast. The combination of yellow with this color is an interesting option that creates an incredibly fabulous interior. The trim should be lemon color and the furniture pieces should be (partially) purple. The room will be bright.
The presented color is ideal for a corridor with poor natural light. Brightness allows you to increase space and create warmth.
What style is this color suitable for?
Thanks to the versatility of this tone, it can be used in almost any style.
This is how bright yellow walls fit the style:
- Boho.
- High tech.
- Modern.
- Light yellow walls will suit;
- Classic.
- Swiss chalet.
- Classic English.
- Country.
- Ethno.
Practical corridor interior options
Designers offer several options that are suitable for almost all types of corridors, always look stylish and are quite functional.
The correct design of a corridor or wide hallway determines not only the comfort of residents and their aesthetic pleasure, but also psychological harmony.
See alsoFeatures of creating a narrow corridor design
Using an arch
An arch is an excellent solution for even the narrowest corridor in a one-room apartment.
The arch will become a real decoration of the interior of the corridor.
It has a number of advantages:
- Visually increases the area of the corridor;
- Allows you to significantly save space (no need to provide space for opening the door);
- Allows you to combine rooms;
- Looks stylish and always remains in fashion;
- There are many ways to decorate an arch.
If the hallway seems boring and banal, try adding an arch to it.
An arch in your corridor or hallway is an excellent tool for visually expanding space or original apartment design.
The arch can have any shape: round, rectangular, with various asymmetric bends. The photo shows several original options for including such a doorway in the interior of the corridor.
See alsoStylish corridor design in an apartment in 2022
Narrow corridor design
In panel houses you can often find long narrow corridors. Don’t be upset if you have an apartment with just such a layout. Even from such a room, without much work or investment, you can make a real masterpiece.
The design of a narrow hallway is distinguished by a special approach when choosing components.
There are several secrets.
- The walls and floors are decorated in light colors of different shades. It is recommended to exclude white color, as it may result in a “hospital corridor”.
- A built-in wardrobe is practical, stylish and functional.
- Lighting must be of high quality and well thought out.
- A long wall should not be empty. You can place decorative lamps, paintings, and framed family photos on it. Wallpaper for the interior can be chosen with a pattern.
- If possible, the number of corners should be reduced as much as possible.
- A large mirror is a must. It can be built into the cabinet doors or one of the doors.
Decorative decoration on the walls will also help increase the space of a narrow hallway.
Square corridor design
Making a small square hallway stylish is very easy. For the floor, it is better to choose ceramic tiles with a glossy finish, and for the walls, plain wallpaper or with a discreet ornament.
The design of a square hallway is often decorated in classical styles.
In general, it is recommended to stick to the classic style and follow a few tips.
- Furniture should be narrow or built-in.
- Provence style will add comfort. But it is allowed to be used only if one of the rooms contains elements of this style.
- Don't be afraid of vertical stripes.
- A vertical pattern on a light background or ornament will be the highlight of the design of a small corridor in an apartment.
The alternation of blue and gold stripes creates a rhythmic pattern that expands the space.
Whatever the interior of the hallway, the furniture for this room should be chosen as compact and functional as possible. Pieces of furniture should not “capture” a lot of space.
How to decorate yellow walls correctly?
When choosing this color for wall decoration, you should remember that each interior will need one or another level of contrast and overall color palette.
If yellow is chosen for the walls, then the interior will be perceived as yellow, since in this case it will become the basis for everything else. Careful choice of shade is important here, since it will be difficult to correct this.
Light yellow, cool in tone is best distributed over the entire surface. It will be an excellent substrate for blue, lilac and green flowers.
A room with bright yellow walls looks heavier. Therefore, it is advisable not to use this color on the entire surface of the walls. It can be diluted with white. This is the best option that is suitable for any style.
Also in modern interiors, such as loft or hi-tech, you can use light gray and gray in combination with yellow on the walls.
It is worth considering that black in combination with yellow looks quite gloomy, so you should avoid such options for decorating the room.
Yellow corridor and "Egyptian" shower
Hello, I continue to show my apartment. The second most important room in our apartment after the kitchen is the bathroom. Why "Egyptian"? All my friends, when they saw the shower, for some reason immediately said that it was associated with something Egyptian. Well, okay, so be it. The most problematic room in terms of renovation turned out to be the bathroom; the largest number of jambs is here. I’ll say right away that my husband and I laid tiles everywhere. We hired workers only for plumbing and rough work.
They did it themselves not because they wanted to, but because they suddenly couldn’t find tiler workers. For a whole week we held castings and interviews for workers, but we eliminated everyone: either they raised the price when they saw that the tiles were small, they charged them as if they were mosaics, or they came back with fumes at the end of the day, or a boy who said that he had recently done the whole apartment for his mother) )
Well, we decided not to waste the vacation time we took specifically for the renovation, and decided to lay the tiles ourselves. We bought a laser level, an electric and simple tile cutter, rolled up our sleeves and it turned out what we have)) My part was to lay tiles on the walls everywhere, my husband cut them in the hallway and handed them to me)).
The worst thing turned out to be that the tiles from this Kerama Marazzi collection are porcelain tiles!!! damn him. This means that you won’t be able to cut evenly even with an electric tile cutter, no matter what kind of disk you insert into it. We spent a lot of money on these cutting discs, we thought that the problem was with them, but it turned out that cutting porcelain stoneware smoothly is only possible on special machines. We suffered terribly with her! Let's start, let's go one by one, there's not enough space)) Photos were taken at different times, so something may differ.
We have a shared bathroom, we don’t regret it, there are only three of us in the family, so we don’t stand in queues)) There’s a toilet right at the entrance, nothing, it’s normal to sit in the corner or at the entrance - I don’t see the difference, the door is closed wherein))
above the toilet there is a narrow cabinet with a depth of only 23 cm, width - 80 cm
The louvered door covers the meters, water heater and all sorts of pipes. I didn’t have enough brains back then to make more space inside for basins and buckets; now there’s really nowhere to put them except in the closet in the hallway.
The drain button could be white instead of chrome, but in our city it’s not so easy to find, or rather simply not to be found
I'll start with my mistakes: the sink is too high because of the washing machine, it was necessary to make it mortise, but we got used to it. But the towel hangs low, you have to take it off every time to dry your hands, and then hang it up, it seems like a small thing, but somehow it’s annoying)) But I really didn’t want to make hooks on the wall higher, I really liked this tile in cubes, so no I wanted to cover it with hanging towels, which I’m ready to endure. Another problem is that they didn’t calculate the width of the tabletop - it was necessary to make it wider so that it would completely cover the machine, and since you can’t place the washing machine close to the wall because of the different hoses and other things, it turns out that she is performing. I don't like this either.
the box under the sink is a temporary laundry basket made by me from corrugated cardboard and covered with fabric wallpaper given to me for free at one store
to the left of the entrance is a shower
The shower is separated by a wall made of sand-lime brick, the dimensions of the shower are 1.40 by 87 cm. That’s enough for us, we could have done it a little smaller.
All tiles in the shower are Kerama Marazzi
Of course, I know that the color of the shower head should not be chrome, but I only had enough money for a non-chrome shelf)) At first I thought that I would change the shower stand over time, but now I’m used to it, I don’t notice.
This is where my biggest mistake is visible, my pain is a mosaic on the floor. Where, tell me, were my brains when I decided that there should be a mosaic on the floor? It’s terrible - there are so many seams, they often get dirty, turn gray, turn black, they all look different - at the entrance they are pure white, closer to the drain they are darker. Therefore, my immediate task is to tear off the mosaic and glue larger tiles there, probably the same as on the wall. I just can’t think of a color, can you recommend?
opposite side of the shower
I will note a plus that makes me incredibly happy - on this tile on the wall there are absolutely, simply absolutely no visible stains from water, deposits, etc. I remember how in my previous apartment I scrubbed the tiles every time after swimming. I’m just happy here, it always looks clean and doesn’t spoil the mood)) The curtain hanging is the cheapest from Ikea, I want to change it, but I can’t find the curtain of my dreams. Does anyone have any ideas that would fit here? Ideally, I would like a reversible curtain that has a different pattern to suit each room. The heated towel rail is in the most visible place! I don’t like it so much, but there was simply nowhere to put it, of course it was possible, but this threatened to move pipes, build up extra walls, and, accordingly, reduce the usable area.
one more thing that I don’t like is the heated towel rail, because of which you can’t put anything beautiful on the table or hang it on the wall
The mirror is glued directly to the wall using liquid nails and framed with a border.
And here you can see that the color of the louvered door and the color of the toilet paper roll are the same)) It happened like this. I was wondering what color I should paint the door. I couldn’t pick a color for about two weeks, and then somehow I saw that the yellow toilet paper standing on the countertop harmonized so well with the blue border, with the blue mosaic. “This is it,” I thought, tore off a piece of paper and ran to the hardware store. I picked the same color as the toilet paper according to the layout and asked to tint it.
The tiles on the floor seem to be Spanish, bought in Castorama on sale
Well, the corridor, there’s nothing special to show here, just one closet. The corridor was intentionally painted brighter, because we wanted more light, it seemed like the sun was shining)) I bought the cheapest wooden plinth in a hardware store, sanded it, painted it with dark varnish, sanded it again and glued it on with liquid nails. Looks decent even up close.
in front of the door is the bathroom.
In the corridor, the walls are also covered with ordinary putty, applied horizontally with a metal brush. That is, we scoop up a piece of putty with a brush, throw it forcefully onto the wall and spread it horizontally with the brush. This produces a bark beetle-type pattern, but only horizontally and more convexly. In general, all the walls in our apartment are anti-vandal for our cats)) I think they would quickly tear up the wallpaper somewhere
The color of the walls is conveyed here accurately - yellow
Did everyone recognize the shoe shoe and the mirror? Of course, Ikea, the color and size fit perfectly here, and we got it at a discount.
view from the kitchen
The corridor is narrow, the closet is 50 cm deep. What do you think, what if you hang 3-4 paintings in a row on the wall opposite the closet? Well, that’s it, I want advice on the curtain, on the color of the floor in the shower, on accessories, on the laundry basket .
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