The entrance is one of the areas people pay least attention to when furnishing and decorating a home. Yet it's where we're welcomed into a home and seen off again. It plays a key role in how we feel when we enter a flat or house. Find creative ideas and practical tips for designing your hallway in this article!
Ideas and tips for a welcoming entrance:
- Hallway storage ideas
- Ideas for a long hallway
- Designing and furnishing a small hallway
- Creating hallway storage – practical solutions for everyday essentials
- Where to put your shoes?
Hallway ideas with plenty of storage
Functionality is essential in a hallway. Where do you put all the clothes you need in the colder months? "Hang it all," the Swiss design furniture manufacturer Vitra might say – and so it created a wall-mounted coat rack that stands out with its striking design and sometimes bold colours. It instantly lifts the mood.
If you prefer something more rustic, the Toj coat stand by Normann Copenhagen is a good choice. Designer Simon Legald has pared the minimalist construction back to the essentials. The storage space, however, is anything but minimal: there's plenty of room for shoes, bags and clothes.
For romantics and nostalgics, Skagerak offers the Cutter coat rack. Its clean, simple lines give it a particularly elegant look. It has a shelf for hats and coat hangers, and you can add hooks for jackets and coats. The other pieces in the Cutter series make it easy to furnish an entire hallway and create a cohesive look in your entrance.
Ideas for a long hallway
If you're designing a long hallway, emphasise its length with slim, elongated furniture. This leaves you plenty of room to move around, while keeping the space from looking empty and giving you extra room to store things. Skagerak offers an excellent solution to this challenge:
The Georg console table is a piece of furniture that stands firmly and securely on just two legs. Many pieces in the Georg series fit beautifully into your hallway. Get inspired and combine the individual pieces however you like.
Designing and furnishing a small entrance
In cities in particular, furnishing a hallway can be a challenge, as it's often very narrow or small. There are practical solutions: customisable wall rails, models with folding hooks and coat hooks all help when space is limited. This way, you can design even a small entrance and still make room for your clothes.
With its Piano coat rack, Norrmade has created a very simple, space-saving alternative to bulky coat stands. It's just 10 millimetres thick and made entirely of aluminium, which gives it an elegant look. The practical part: you can fold the coat hooks in and out as needed.
Functionality is particularly important in small spaces. Wall hooks can be arranged exactly as you like to create a distinctive look. And there's no limit to the choice of materials and colours either. Muuto's The Dots wall hooks prove it – this year, they're also available in shimmering gold, brass and copper tones to suit the autumn and winter trends.
Individuality is always important when designing a hallway. We Do Wood offers a particularly clever solution with its Scoreboard coat rack: the bamboo board comes with pins in different colours and lengths, giving you almost unlimited freedom to arrange and style it.
Creating hallway storage – practical solutions for everyday essentials
Who hasn't experienced this? You're about to leave the house, but you're still desperately looking for your keys, umbrella, wallet or other everyday essentials. Why not organise the space so that everything you need is ready to hand, saving you time? Since you pass through the entrance whenever you leave the flat or house, it makes sense to add surfaces where you can put things down.
With Push, designed by Stine Hedelund, the brand Skagerak has hit the mark: it's a coat rack, shelf, cabinet and mirror in one. The shelf gives you room for all the things you don't want to forget, and you can take one last look in the mirror before leaving the house.
With the Mirror Box, Konstantin Slawinski also offers a real eye-catcher that combines a mirror and shelf, making good use of the hallway space.
Where to put your shoes?
Come on in, step inside, bring good luck …
... but definitely not dirt, grime or clutter. Rain or snow, our shoes take a beating. The hallway can come to the rescue. A stylish doormat saves you a lot of work in the rest of your home. Connox also has plenty of ways for you to store your shoes. The brand tica copenhagen, in particular, specialises in entrance design, offering practical solutions for shoes – from shoe racks and trays to doormats. The Dot doormat has a timeless, classic design, is non-slip and easy to clean. If you like to match your decor to the season, it also comes in an autumnal leaf pattern.
The Gaston shoe rack by side by side is an ideal way to store shoes and boots. It's made of untreated solid wood and has a classic design. The practical detail: it comes with a metal shoehorn.
Norrmade's Stick shoe rack also keeps things simple. Shoes rest on two bars, allowing air to reach the soles from underneath. This lets the shoes breathe and helps them dry faster.
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