We have a very long quite large hall because we live in a maisonette within a huge Victorian building. It's corridor shaped but two people can pass each other quite easily so closer to 2m wide than 1m
It's elegant but quite dark.
We have a plain Brintons beige carpet chosen mainly because it was the same as the one in the sitting room. The stairs are just wood. There is a dado rail.
The "line" of the ceiling above the staircase is not original because we changed the layout of the next floor up, so it is jagged not just one continuous line.
There is a basement flat underneath so sadly tiling is probably not an answer, and a new wood floor would clash with the original wood on the stairs.
We are now redecorating.
Is a patterned carpet always a mistake that makes it look like an old people's home?