Hallway corner driving me nuts

[MerryRobin]

Hi

Really need help in loosing my mind on a certain corner of my hallway were doing it up and I've created some images of what it will look like when finished a d I'll post all photos of what it will look like when finished however it's the image with the coat hooks that I don't know what to put at the bottom as I have tried finding a console table or shoe bench but as it's only 50cm on the wall under the shopping bag I have to have a custom made one and there expensive and I just don't know what to put there?

My decor style is Cosy Cotswolds country with a refined elegant twist

If I were you OP I would wait until the boiler and radiators have been replaced or the work is in progress (panel and paint the wall after the new pipes have been fitted and before the radiator is installed) to redecorate, panel and replace the flooring.

How about a corner unit like this. Could be used for shoes or little trinkets, a key bowl etc.

I would put a nice skinny shelf or hall console over that radiator too there are so many nice ones only 150mm deep or even less, even with tiny drawers for keys or bits and good to display a few items

I’d put a radiator cover over the radiator, or find a small console table that could fit over it. I wouldn’t put anything on the stairs though - a trip hazard and an extra thing to dust!!

https://www.dunelm.com/product/lynton-radiator-cover-console-table-1000283224

https://www.laura-james.co.uk/products/radiator-cover-large

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7918748

If the radiator were slim or on the other side, there would be space for a console or rack on the left.

Like this?

Minor point but I’m not sure the noose hanging from the coat rack is the vibe you’re looking for. I love AI’s minor fuck ups 😂

Seems like it could be a lot to spend, given that you're renting?

https://www.choicefurnituresuperstore.co.uk/p/house-nordic-furniture-barcelona-garden-bench-small-natural-teak-wood

Why are you adding so much value to your landlord's property? Could you put money in a high yield ISA and just make the place pretty with soft furnishings and maybe things you can unscrew and take with you?

Did she use a specialist UPVC paint? I painted all of my windows and doors with it last summer and it still looks as new as it did last year.

OP go for it try Rustoleum or Frenchic for UPVC both are brilliant to work with and very easy to apply.

@Beyondamountainandoverthesea it was a while ago and I remember she tried various paints.
TBH I'm not sure what the door was made of ,it seemed to be a composite of some kind. And it was v dark navy , which won't have helped.
Anyway, apologies if I've misled and it's good to know of paints that cover UVPC.
There are some amazing products around these days!

I understand you want it to look nice and your style, but you're spending way too much time and money on a property you don't own. Of course you're 'allowed' to change things, you're saving the landlord a fortune.

Why are you doing all this in a house that isn’t yours?

Why not save the money and get an extra job instead of messing around on AI trying to redesign someone else’s home, then go buy yourself something that you can decorate and add value to and trade up.

How would you feel if when you are finished your landlord said he wanted the place back for a relative to move into or he wanted to sell the place and you got evicted.

I honestly can’t understand why you are concentrating on stagnating instead of saving money to be in charge of your own destiny.

It looks perfectly ok to me. I have rented much much worse and lived with it.

I'd be very surprised if they rout the walls to hide the pipes, that's a big and unnecessary job just for changing a boiler and radiators. Unusual to be swapping out new, modern radiators too. I'd wait and see what you end up with.

Big shoe basket on left and umbrella stand on the right.

This happened to us. It’s hard when you are renting (particularly if semi long term) to live with someone else’s choices so the temptation is there to decorate. We decorated our rented property, landlord did an inspection and said how amazing it looked then wham straight on the market! We knew it was a risk but it was still frustrating and it looking better possibly meant we ended up homeless quicker than we would have.

This was years ago when I was much younger and quite naive. It’s easy for me to say don’t do it but when I think back to that red stair carpet …

I get what some of you are saying but we're going to be living here for years it's a social housing house when I said he I was referring to our housing officer as he technically is our landlord and we had a gas safety inspection as we do every year and he said our boiler is way too old and it's needs replacing and that we won't have any pipes with the new radiators.

And we are saving for our own house we both have decent jobs we both earn just a little above minimum wage and we are putting some away each month after bills ect for our own house but it'll take years to save enough for a deposit for a mortgage on our own house.

I get what some of you are saying but I want this to feel like home since we are going to be here for years

Sorry people are being so weird and pretending you can somehow save up like a hundred thousand pounds by not buying a £15 panelling kit and a tin of paint from Dunelm.

Skip that weekly coffee! In four hundred years you will have enough to put down a deposit on a starter flat in zone 4. Spend your entire life waiting! Never have kids, or even a modest peg to hang a coat on! This life advice will never steer you wrong...

Anyway, Sostrene Grene have some hallway coat racks at about £20 at the moment, OP. And Dunelm have panelling kits from about £12.