Grey hallway ideas
Hallways are usually the first thing you (and your visitors) see on entering your home, so it’s worth giving a little thought to the statement you want to make with it. If you’re keen to avoid clinical white, but not interested in going full technicolour, grey is the perfect colour for a stylish backdrop – spanning a range from pale and cool to dark and brooding. These hallways go from grand and sweeping to small but perfectly formed, with a grey to match any mood.
Paul Massey1/6Muted grey with red accents
An internal window looks into the sitting room from the hall at this renovated Georgian house. The muted grey of the walls are the perfect backdrop for the rich reds and worn leathers used to decorate.
2/6Dove-grey hallway
The owners of this Norfolk home had a desire for both classic and contemporary design, which Veere Grenney navigates in this dove-grey hallway with elegant lanterns and stately horns as edgy decorations that are recognizably traditional, too.
Jake Curtis3/6Farrow & Ball's 'Pigeon'
In Carole Annett's Surrey house, designed by interior designer Emma Sims Hilditch, Farrow & Ball's 'Pigeon' has been used on the panelling in the elegant entrance hall. The space also features a fireplace. The small space is truly made a stylish room of its own with these design ideas.
Jefferson Smith4/6Grey gloss paint
The owners of this west London town house enlisted interior decorater Henri Fitzwilliam-Lay to create a modern family home with a chic mix of colour and texture. Henri dictated the use of gloss paint in the corridors. 'Halls are always the first thing to go - they can look ratty in months,' she says. 'People avoid using gloss because they feel that it shows the lumps and bumps, but it's fine - particularly if you're hanging art'.
Simon Upton5/6Charcoal gallery wall
The owner of this 1830s London house wanted it to be restored to its original style, which interior designer Max Rollitt achieved by retaining its idiosyncrasies, including the original dentilled cornicing in the hallway illuminated by an 'Original Globe' lantern from Jamb (available in two sizes; the smallest measures 57.2 x 40.5cm diameter and costs £2,640). The walls are painted a charcoal grey shade - 'Pewter' from Zoffany is a similar shade.
6/6Hallway tableau
With a long expanse of blank wall, hallways are often the perfect part of the house to create a tableau of objects. In this house by Hackett Holland a pair of lamps on a console table frame a mirror.
