Ideas on decorating a narrow uninspiring hallway

[sedgieloo]

It needs redecorating due to a leak, it is L shape both lengths must be about 11 foot, really narrow, late 70's house. Flooring is wood mid colour (smoked bamboo if you know what that looks like)

Off of the hallway we have (its a reverse level house) a bathroom tiled white, with teal/chartreuse mosaic panels, and two bedrooms one all white the other pewter silver grey/white.

I'm 3rd tri pregnant with a toddler and can't think!! So it is going to be painted white at this rate.

Can't justify the £300 excess on insurance so DIY job. But prefer an affordable paper in a way so I don't have to strip/lining paper/paint several coats.

any chance of a photo?

I would go for light colour if the hall way is narrow and possibly a large set of mirror tiles or something similar to reflect light and make the area appear square rather than narrow

for one wall

heavy vinyl for bad walls

I'd either go for doing it a few complimenting colours (e.g. darker but still a light colour at the bottom like mushroom or teal) then do another lighter shade of the colour you have chosen and then a 3rd of the way up do another lighter shade, mirrors is a great idea I would be tempted to use a few different size ones.

OR (as I'm mural artist at heart) I'd encourage you to go a bit crazy and have it looking like a jungle with a panda bear hiding in the trees OR an english country side woods with bluebells and a sun lit path fading to the distance...........(floats off in an imaginary world)

hth

Xroads how marvellous! I need a quick fix though.

Ok will try to sort a photo, not that there is much to see I took all the pictures down and it's just putty painted lining paper and white woodwork.

Am but scared of patterned paper but saying that I have got heavy metallic oversized damask going up on bedroom so needs to flow ok if I go for a pattern hall. What about wide horizontal stripe ?

Sorry about my poorly written post I'm clumsily trying to post from my phone

You could run a wide metallic stripe horizontally although whoever puts up the paper will need to be good at it!

I put a picture up - about as uninteresting as hallways get

if the walls aren't any good -perfectly smooth I would worry abut a strip showing bumps and lumps, added to which the hall is narrow but even a horizontal stirpe may not work the way you want it to.

What colour wall paper is in the bedroom that you want it to flow with?