Space is always an issue. Whether you own a big house with a lot of bedrooms and walls ready for canvas art or a tiny studio apartment that can fit exactly one modest piece of wall art, chances are you will eventually wish you had more space. It’s human nature: We collect things and create new people, and slowly but surely the space we thought was more than enough a few years before becomes crowded – and we become creative in how to use it.
One of the most overlooked tricks in interior design and organisation? Your hallways. Whether it’s for a gallery of photo art or other uses, your hallways are not just corridors to get you from one room to another – they’re extensions of those rooms. Or at least that’s how you ought to be thinking about them.
The Hallway: The Ideal Gallery for Canvas Art
One of the most common and powerful uses of a hallway is to hang your amazing canvas prints, whether to showcase your family memories or your photographer’s eye, or simply show off some of your favourite pieces of art, recreated through cheap canvas prints. A hallway usually provides a long stretch of wall where you can arrange your pieces in a powerful and interesting way, with some targeted lighting installed to really show them off. This not only transforms your hallway into beautiful spaces, it expands your wall art possibilities, which means you can have more fun selecting and arranging pieces.
The Hallway and Storage
Another incredible use for a hallway is as simple and stylish storage. Shelving and pretty baskets can hold all the kids’ toys or any kind of other stuff that would otherwise be packed in boxes and stuffed in a closet or simply strewn all over the place. Alternating great canvas art with gorgeous storage furniture against the walls makes your hallways do double duty as galleries and storage, and taking those shelves or furniture pieces up to the ceiling will maximise your useful storage space.
The Hallway Library, Playroom, or Office
We tend to think that hallways are too narrow to be useful, but this isn’t really the case. As with any other room in your home, it’s all about planning and careful design. Think of your hallway as a long narrow room, and let your imagination fly:
- Library. Hallways are ideal libraries. Shelves lined with books, broken up with wall art and shallow seating areas (which can be just a half table and a small chair), and you’ve got a place where you or your guests can spend enjoyable hours reading.
- Office. Even very narrow hallways can tuck an office space into a corner, with shelving soaring up the wall, a shallow secretary-style desk and chair, and a wall-mounted computer screen. This is ideal if you’re in a small home without a spare room for an office.
- Playroom. Need a place for the kids to romp? Baskets on the shelves filled with their toys, sturdy flooring, and you’ve got it – all it takes is a quick cleanup when guests arrive and your hallways are back to being dull old hallways, but they will come alive with imagination and games during the day!
Don’t waste a single square foot! Hallways represent dozens of square feet of usable space – all it takes is a bit of imagination and design moxie. When you’re ready to transform your hallways, pick out your canvas art and click here so we can do our part in making your hallways work for you.
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