Tips to Enhance Your Home Corridors’ Appearance

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A corridor is a hallway in a building that usually connects one room to another and is generally flanked by solid walls. Inadequate design can make a corridor underlit and cramped. A corridor can be an interesting space and add characters to the house. Here are some things that need to be considered to revamp the hallway to look more beautiful and interesting.

View

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Create a corridor with an outdoor view so that the impression of a long boring hallway can be avoided. Views of parks or other rooms will provide something to look at while walking through.

Decoration

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To avoid the monotonous impression, a corridor’s walls and corners can be decorated such as by adding decorative photo frames or paintings is also a solution so that passers-by can enjoy the photos or paintings along the corridor.

Wall Texture

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Using different finishing materials on the corridor’s wall can also make a hallway more interesting. You could go with timber walls or louvers, bare concrete, as well as wallpaper or fabric finishes. Combining more than one textures could also add dynamics into the corridor.

Lighting

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Adequate lighting can help to uplift a corridor. Good lighting will also create good ambience, this can be achieved by the use of rows of spotlights directed to the wall with decors; or hidden lighting on the ceiling for an even brightness along the corridor.