The entrance hall is the face of any home, because this is the first room that visitors and guests see. As a rule, in most Russian apartments, it does not differ in impressive size. But this does not mean that the owners of the apartment pay less attention to the design of the hallway than to the rest of the house.
With a competent approach, even a small hallway may well harmoniously fit into the overall interior, turning into its logical continuation. In this case, it is not necessary to start a grandiose restructuring with the demolition of the walls. It’s enough to pick up wallpaper for the hallway, echoing the theme with the decoration of the walls of the main room.
The modern market of building and finishing materials is striking in a huge selection of products. In addition, almost every year all kinds of new items go on sale. And if the color and texture of the wallpaper is, as they say, a matter of taste, then the quality and technological features of wall coverings deserve more careful consideration.
Recall what types of wallpaper are currently on sale.
Inexpensive, simple paper wallpapers never go out of style. Due to the variety of drawings, it will not be difficult to choose the finish for any interior style, from high-tech to modern. The technology for wall decoration using paper wallpaper is just as simple and affordable. Specialists in builders consider their "breathing" texture a huge plus of paper wallpaper. This finishing material is suitable for rooms with low humidity.
Vinyl materials are no longer a novelty in the Russian market. Washable wallpapers have long won the hearts of customers, thanks to their beauty and durability. Such wallpaper for the hallway is perhaps the best option, because they are easily cleaned with a sponge or vacuum cleaner, which means that street dirt will not accumulate in the room. A significant drawback of PVC-based wallpapers is their air tightness, but today manufacturers are solving this problem.
Textile wallpapers are basically paper, fabric, or synthetic fabric. The top layer is formed from specially processed threads of natural or artificial origin. As a rule, this is linen, cotton, jute, viscose, silk, polyvinyl chloride. Fabric wallpaper in the hallway is especially appropriate if the room is decorated in the style of Baroque, Rococo, modern or country. Despite the high cost, wallpaper made of fabric deserves attention, because they are of high quality and excellent performance.
Fiberglass is a new high-tech material for wall decoration. Such wallpapers are made from natural raw materials: soda, lime, quartz sand and dolomite. Under the influence of high temperatures, the materials melt and are drawn into threads, from which they then weave a fabric. Often cullet is made on a paper basis. Such decoration of the hallway and other rooms of the city apartment is practical and universal. Cullets are easily updated by coating with latex or water-based paint. Fiberglass wallpaper for the hallway - a solution, though extravagant, but quite practical. This material is fire resistant and not sensitive to moisture, chemically neutral, easy to operate.
Cork wallpapers are just made for lovers of environmental and ethnic interiors. Specially treated surface does not accumulate dust particles. In addition, the coating, if desired, can be washed with a vacuum cleaner or an ordinary sponge.
It’s not difficult to choose wallpaper for the hallway, if you follow simple rules. Large rooms are not suitable for a small room with low ceilings. If you like flowers, then choose small ones in size. A rare hallway has windows, so the wallpaper must certainly be light, better than cold shades. To make the room visually higher, patterns from thin stripes will allow. You dream that the hallway will become noticeably wider - pick up wallpapers with transversely arranged motifs.