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Home Decorating with
Light:
Ideas for Brightening
A Dark Hallway
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Dark hallways are a decorating problem in most homes. Long
and dreary, hallways often have no window, and any light
that might reach them from the front or the end of the
corridor gets lost along the way. There are several simple
ways to brighten a dark hallway and make it more beautiful
in the process.
Brightening a Dark Hallway with No Electrical Outlet
My dark basement hallway had no electrical outlet near its
end. I wanted to brighten this portion of the hallway
because the garage entry door was there, the door through
which we entered the house every day.
To brighten the dark hallway, I made a hole through the wall
near an electrical outlet in an adjoining room. Next, I
snapped the plug off my table lamp, so as to be able to pass
the electrical cord through the hole in the dark corridor
wall.
Finally, I installed a new plug on the wires, so I could
plug the lamp into the wall socket in the adjoining room.
I placed the table lamp on a narrow glass table and hung a
mirror over it to reflect the lamplight, which brightened my
dark hallway even more.
Brightening a Dark Hallway with Strings of Light
A great way to brighten a dark hallway is to hang a long
string of white Christmas lights from one end of the hallway
(where there is an outlet) to the other end (where there is
no outlet). Use a stapler to attach the string of lights
along the ceiling on the right and left walls of the dark
hallway.
Brightening a Dark Hallway with Rechargeable Lights
Another beautiful way to brighten a dark hallway is to
display decorative rechargeable lights down its length.
Install small mantle shelves on the right and left down your
dark hallway and place the decorative lights there.
You can also suspend the lights on two decorative shelf
brackets spaced slightly apart. You can find decorative
lights in home decor store or department stores. Just make
sure the batteries are rechargeable.
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