DIY ideas for decorating the corridor and arches
Creating the interior of a house, or apartment, we have to think even more about the decoration of auxiliary rooms than about living rooms. Such premises include hallways, halls and corridors.
The hallway is called the room adjacent to the front door. It can be either square or rectangular.
It is sometimes called a corridor, but it is wrong. A corridor is a passage connecting several rooms in a house, less often in an apartment.
As a rule, the corridors are rather narrow and long. If this room has a different configuration, then it will already be called the hall, or lobby.
The design of a spacious hall usually does not cause difficulties, much less the decoration of a narrow corridor in an apartment. Here, first of all, it is necessary to solve the issue of expanding space.
This is what we will tell you in our article.
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Interior openings and arches
Question on the topic: "How to finish the walls in the corridor?" - It is impossible to consider separately from the design of interior doors and openings. Their combination must be carefully considered.
It is the openings that can become the main decoration of unremarkable walls. A great example of this design is at the beginning of our article.
So:
- So that the corridor that is too long does not look like a tunnel, it is divided into zones. Most often, this role is played by a partition with an arch, which is usually the main decorative element of the corridor.
- Sometimes a corridor is formed as a result of the construction of partitions in a large studio room. Arches in such partitions are also not uncommon.
The simplest option for its manufacture is drywall. - The design of the arch made of drywall allows you to integrate spotlights into it, which will serve as an additional decoration and emphasize its elegant shape.
The technologies developed over the years allow creating all kinds of architectural forms from this material. You can watch the video to understand how to make a partition from drywall, and we will tell you how to finish the openings.
Finishing openings with polyurethane
Of the many materials used to decorate the room, polyurethane stucco molding is on a special account with designers. Its first advantage is flexibility, which allows you to decorate the opening of any configuration.
So:
- Thanks to the ease of installation, finishing the arch with your own hands can be done without problems. Parts for facing openings are made in special forms.
They have a snow-white smooth surface, a clear relief and shape, are easily painted in any color.
- A huge assortment of decor is made from this material, not only for openings - these are plinths, stucco moldings similar to gypsum, and elements of columns. Very often, various parts made of polyurethane are combined in one room.
Such an interior looks very interesting and respectable.
Wooden slopes and openings
Adherents of the classic style in the decoration of the premises, of course, will prefer wood.
Such openings look very beautiful and, as a rule, constitute a contrast to the decorative surface of the walls:
- Apertures and arches combine the interior of the house, allowing you to move freely. Passages decorated in the same style create an elegant interior.
- Natural wood is the most attractive material for finishing door slopes and free spaces, despite the fact that the price of some types of wood is very high.
- Decorating arches with wood is done using glued blocks, which are fixed in the aperture and covered with colored varnish. An arch of any non-standard shape can be ordered in the workshop.
And not even just an arch, but the entire partition.
- By their configuration, arches are lancet and semicircular. Their details are created both from wood massif and from high-quality MDF coated with veneer.
In combination with the same furniture, any interior will look stylish and expensive.
Particularly interesting look wooden arches on the walls having a large thickness. In our example, a very successful design option: the decoration of the corridor and arch is made of wood in contrasting colors.
The wall decor with structural plaster used elements in the form of a stone panel, and a stained-glass window. A two-level glossy ceiling, as well as stained-glass windows, visually expand the space.
Thus, all the tasks facing the designer in decorating a small room that does not have natural light have been solved.
Stone decoration
Recently, a tendency has appeared to specifically get rid of interior doors. In many rooms they are simply not needed.
Free arched openings give a feeling of spaciousness, especially in narrow corridors. In this regard, questions arise: "How to finish the arch, and how best to combine this finish with the color of the walls?"
A very popular material used today for this purpose is decorative stone:
- There are quite a few types of natural and artificial stone - you can always choose the suitable option that will go well with one or another wall surface.
- If you want to learn how to decorate an arch with a decorative stone, a small instruction will not hurt you. In any case, it is also necessary to be able to choose the right material.
- According to the method of masonry, decorative stone is conventionally divided into three types: imitation of smooth masonry, mosaic masonry and rubble stone. Smooth masonry is created by sandstone, slate, decorative brick.
Mosaic masonry - limestone, marble, pebbles, labradorite.
- Stone tile has a textured front surface, the reverse side is smooth and rough. Thanks to this, the stone is easily laid on the solution, or fixed with glue.
- By the way, it is possible to decorate not apertures with a decorative stone, but one wall of a corridor or a hall, execute panels, veneer a fireplace. These decorating techniques are used by many designers.
If the design decoration of the corridor is done in ethnic or rustic style, large types of stone are used. The opening faced by him is very similar to the entrance to the cave.
To imitate the medieval interior and the frame of large arched passages, use natural chipped stone, and its artificial counterparts.
Corridor Decorating Ideas
The materials listed above, with the help of which the finishing of interior openings is made, allow focusing precisely on them. And it can be done differently - the slope of the opening is more modest, highlighting not the finish in the decoration, but the wall in which it is located.
Bamboo
Directly opening can be simply leveled with decorative or smooth plaster, and painted. The color can be white, or in harmony with the shade of the walls, ceiling.
And for finishing the arched partition, you can take some unusual material, for example - bamboo.
- In the picture above, the wall decoration in the corridor is made of bamboo wallpaper. Looks great on the walls and bamboo flooring.
They usually do not paste over the entire room, but decorate only one wall.This technique breaks up the monotonous space, making it visually wider.
- Here is a good example of finishing a narrow corridor: one wall is decorated with bamboo flooring, the rest are simply painted in sand color that goes well with the texture of bamboo. Plasterboard ceiling with recesses and massive fixtures also perform the task of expanding the space.
Since we are already talking about bamboo, we cannot but mention MDF panels covered with bamboo veneer. Looking at the photo, you can see for yourself how interesting the interior of the corridor decorated with such panels looks.
Cork
There is another great material that can be used to decorate corridors - cork. It is used not only for walls, this coating is ideal for floors, and even for ceilings.
- This natural material is environmentally friendly and safe, has a peculiar structure and is produced in numerous variations of textures and colors, which allows not only to surface the surface, but also to create panels on them.
Wallpaper
Someone may say that wallpaper decoration is trite. But this is not at all true.
Wallpaper is the most versatile decoration material, they can be used in any room of a residential building. And the wall decoration of the corridor is no exception.
So:
- An unusual variety of wallpaper colors allows you to create original interior solutions, combining them with other finishing materials. In our example, you see a corridor with designer wallpaper.
- In this case, the part of the walls adjacent to the bright floor is lined with wood panels of the same color. The rest of the walls are darker, as if raised above the floor, divided into zones by polyurethane elements in the form of columns, and the same bright doors.
- The interior is completed by an elegant suspended glass ceiling made of frosted glass with backlight. All this makes the room visually higher and more voluminous, which is what is required in this case.
- Those who prefer not colorful surfaces, but textured ones can use fiberglass wallpaper to decorate the walls of the corridor. This option is commonplace, and even less so, you will not name.
- The service life of fiberglass wallpaper is much longer than that of non-woven, they can be painted many times. There is only one difficulty in working with this type of wallpaper - they require special glue, the consumption of which is much higher than that of glue for ordinary wallpaper.
- Fiberglass wallpaper is very durable and dense, almost does not absorb moisture.
Because of this, it is impossible to paint them the first time. But, if everything is done correctly, the interior will turn out to be simply gorgeous.
The textured surface of the walls can also be obtained by finishing them with decorative plaster. Its surface can be both smooth and embossed, have different shades.
Finishing the stairwell, as well as the lobby, with decorative plaster, is the most acceptable option for wall cladding in these rooms. The main thing is that the process of finishing work was carried out efficiently, in compliance with all technological nuances - then the result will certainly please.
