boring hall, no budget apart from paint
pippin
10 years ago
recently stripped wallpaper and would dearly love some opinions. hall is long and narrow, was thinking of painting it skylight by farrow and ball, maybe likewise effect on floor. get rid of present rug. can't decide whether one big mirror would be best on one wall to keep the space open and light or make it more interesting by filling it with tons of frames. would dearly love a few opinions please? Thanks :-)
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10 years agoGreat hall, great flooring. I think painting the ceiling a dark chocolate would be wonderful, adding pendants (not too low) would help, and one large horizontal mirror on one wall would be wonderful..
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Comments (7)Daylight on a rainy day in Ireland, ah. The easy thing to do is change the bulbs in the recessed fixtures to the maximum allowed. But this will not help with overall illumination because the recessed fixtures point straight down, not sideways. For that you need to add a surface mount or close to ceiling fixture, meaning new electrical work. Some recessed fixtures can be converted to pendants, by the way. Since it is so dark, I suggest painting the whole thing a nice bright white, including the laminate cabinets. There are many discussion posts on painting laminate cabinets on Houzz. I would paint the interior of the missing-doors cabinet with an oil based white paint, too, to brighten it up. Choose a white that coordinates well with the countertop, flooring and tile. The tile can be changed, of course, sooner or later. With some fiddling, you may be able to adjust the sagging cabinet doors under the sink. These are often much used. If the hinges have seen better days, replace them with identical ones, or swap them with less-used hinges, say from those upper cabinets you took down. It's an old house trick to swap worn parts with less-used parts from elsewhere. Most undersink cabinets can use a coat of white paint on the bottom shelf or Contact paper if paint is not suitable....See MoreHelp! Boring downstairs loo
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10 years agoI think the horizontal stripes would be fantastic, especially because it's a rather "clean" hall - not a lot of doors and breaks. I would use two very close tones - a tone-on-tone kind of approach - wrapping one up onto the ceiling. You could do one side in stripes, bringing the lighter color over the ceiling and onto the opposite wall, or do both walls in stripes. It might also be nice to do one of the stripes in a flat and the other in a gloss (which would also bounce a bit of light around)
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