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Hallway Storage Furniture

Hall Furniture Storage Ideas That Keeps The Path Wide Open

Hall Furniture Storage Ideas That Keeps The Path Wide Open

In most houses, the hall is a passageway. Any number of other rooms will open off the hallway. Once, when houses were built to catch the wind through open windows, wide halls would dissect entire floors. Times, however, have changed. Houses are built compactly and since we want larger rooms with more closet space, halls have been downsized. Additionally, due to the nature of halls, they often tend to be long, narrow spaces with little light and no real decorative potential, or so it might seem. The right hall furniture and a few decorative tricks, believe it or not, can perk up even the most dismal of these corridors.Lighting is essential to pulling off a hall makeover. If you can’t afford or it is not physically possible to install skylights, then install recessed cam lighting. It won’t hang down and make the space seem smaller, but will flood the area with warm light. If you angle the light towards the walls that you’ve already painted in soft, light colors, the area will seem larger. Do avoid dark carpet or darkly stained wooden floors in the hall, and make sure any hall furniture is narrow and tall, so it seems almost...

Hall Furniture Guests

Hall Furniture Guests

During the heyday of Victorian high etiquette, the hall was the area of the house, not dissimilar to a foyer, where guests were greeted by the staff and then either bid to wait or informed that the owners of the home were unavailable. During these days, there was a table for the leaving of calling cards. Today’s halls are a lot less formal and serve more uses than those from the past. Still, the right hall furniture can welcome your callers just the same. While hall tables have gone out of fashion, you’ll find plenty of antique-lovers have them. Today’s new versions are versatile. Instead of long flat surfaces to display cards, these modern hall tables have slots for mail going in and out, a place for a phone and maybe even a charging station for the plethora of electronic devices that have to recharge somewhere.Lots of halls have coat trees for hanging coats, jackets, scarves, etc. during chilly inclement weather. Some just use hooks suspended from a mirror hung on a hall wall. This provides a place to check your make up and grab your sweater on the way out. The “hall tree”, the Victorian answer to the umbrella stand...