Hallway help

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Hi, need some help making some colour decisions on our hallway and wondered if anyone would like to help? It's a 1930's house and floor is going to be changed to an amtico herringbone mid brown wood effect. What colour would you do panelling and walls? Also upstairs would you cut off and do skirts etc white or carry panel colour? I also can't decide if I do a darker panel and lighter walk or vice versa 😫

Pick a pale version of the green in the stained glass? Pale pink or yellow would coordinate. I think the panelling as it stands-although beautiful-is way too dark.

Personally I would keep the dark wood. It’s beautiful. I would paint the walls something like F and B wevet or dimpse. Go on Pinterest for ideas, you have such a beautiful hallway you need to make the most of it!

It looks Arts and Crafts-y?

Have a look at restored arts and crafts houses and see what they have done?

We have a Rennie Macintosh house in Glasgow, and there is a gallery of photos of various rooms, including ones where the panels are white: www.houseforanartlover.co.uk/hire/locations/mackintosh-suite

There’s another in Helensburgh and presumably loads more arts and crafts houses websites that could give inspiration, even if they are closed due to COVID and you can’t visit.

My gut instinct with dark rooms is to lighten them but yours may not look right because it’s meant to be dark!

The wood is beautiful. Is it a stain that makes it dark and it could be stripped back to original mahogany as I think it’s actually a reddish wood in its natural state rather than dark chocolate colour?

Have fun with your research. Your house is fab! 🧐 😃

Arts and crafts colours historically do tend towards the pastel, in rebellion from Victorian dark. If that's a factor.

How realistic looking is the wood effect floor going to be? Would worry it will look fake next to the lovely real wood panelling?

I would go as light as possible, rather than dark. It is a lovely large hallway and you could do much in there. What sort of colours are you going with in the rest of the house?

We had stained dark panelling and painted it white. The dark was so oppressive and gloomy. Depends on the wood, I suppose. It's not always "good" wood. It's often cheap pine stained to look more expensive, I think.

No suggestions but just wanted to say I'm envious of your hallway.... Who would have thought I'd ever say such a sentence. Your a lucky op.

We had very dark wood panelling in our sitting room (1920s house) and I was always in two minds as it dominated and darkened half the room. An extension and major work a year ago and we had it stripped and French polished. The difference is unbelieveable!

I didn't realise it was oak,not mahogany! It was pricey but so worth it. Much lighter,can see the features of the wood and I love it.
Do think carefully about how you want it to look ie sympathetic to the style of the house for eg.
Fwiw we have a similar hall with wooden floor (was here when we came 27 years ago) and a fairly dark yellow/gold paper (zoffany) white skirting and plain wood panelled doors and bannister which are original. I accented with red in the curtains and rug and campion towers does feel warm and welcoming.
The clutter's elsewhere!
The 'after' photo was taken in January so the wood looks a bit darker than it actually is.

Thanks for the advice, I'm not sure what wood it is really? Maybe we can tell more once we strip it back.
The floor is going to be Amtico so decent effect but definitely not like the real thing. That's what I think is pushing me to paint it rather than strip and re varnish.
I'm thinking possibly a grey blue mid colour on panels and a very light wall? An off white?
I do want the panels to look great as they're original and the downstairs of house we've kept sympathetic to the era.

Sorry, not much help but I just wanted to say that is a BEAUTIFUL hall! I'm so jealous....

I think different lighting would help a lot there though. It looks very gloomy with just an overhead light.

I'd be reluctant to paint it ,especially if it's original. Perhaps investigate what sort of wood it is? It does look dark but that may be the result of previous treatment.
I agree about the lighting too. I think you need a bit more drama in there!

So we're going to change the lighting, it had 4 crap spotlights but moving to a middle rose and possibly going for a Hyde from David hunt, if I can save up enough 😬
Thanks for all the hallway love. It does amaze me that we have such a 'grown up' hall 😂😂

Have you seen the floor beneath the carpet? I'm wondering if you may a lovely original parquet that could be restored and would look much nicer than a vinyl floor.

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