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Narrow Hallway
Decorating Tricks
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Decorating tricks can visually decrease the length of
your hallway, making a narrow hallway seem wider and more
elegant.
A long hallway looks long, dark and uninviting. And the
longer the hallway, the more these effects increase. To make
a narrow hallway seem wider or more elegant you can either
break the walls or try some narrow hallway decorating
tricks.
To visually change the appearance of the hallway, hang a set
of pictures at equal intervals and facing one another on
both sides of the wall. Buy cheap frames and paint them all
to look like a set. Use old calendar pictures to create
identical wall art for your narrow corridor.
Furthermore, to give all
the pictures a unique, aged patina, dilute the paint you
used for the frames with water until the solution is almost
pellucid.
Paint this thin solution over the calendar prints,
then let dry before framing. Hang the pictures at a fixed
wide distance, to create a lengthening effect. This
decorating trick will make your corridor seem less long, and
consequently less narrow.
Next, take your narrow decorating trick a step further by
actually slicing the space with base molding or window
casing. Cut the molding or casing to fit from floor to
ceiling (or down to your existing floor molding), then
separate the hallway decorating pictures with these
architectural divisions. The molding will seem to slice the
narrow hallway wall into separate sections.
Be sure to install the narrow hallway wall molding on both
sides of the wall. The symmetry will increase the illusion
of separate passageways succeeding one another.
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