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Entryway closet ideas are a brilliant way to keep your home organized, but creating an entryway that is both practical and beautiful can be a difficult balance. 

An essential part of the home, an entryway closet is a space that needs to tick all of the boxes: it should be practical, work hard, be easy to organize – and good looking.

Factoring in plenty of closet storage for coats, bags and boots is an essential entryway idea if you don’t have a boot room as it will help keep the hallway clear making the space feel calm, welcoming. Having a clutter-free space will also help set you in a positive frame of mind as you exit the house so that you are ready to tackle the day ahead.

Entryway closet ideas – 10 tips for a clutter-free entrance

From interior details to inventive suggestions for entryway storage ideas, these design-led entryway closet ideas will inspire your scheme. 

1. Make use of every inch

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'There is a plethora of off-the-peg pieces on the market which can help keep hallway storage at bay and add a design feature to an entryway closet,' says Paul Deckland, The Cotswold Company .  

'We recommend choosing pieces that are versatile and work hard for you, for busy family homes, an entryway closet is perfect for housing coats, shoes and keys conveniently by the front door.'

2. Invest in built-in closets for awkward spaces

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'In old houses, you can be left dealing with awkward nooks and crannies that however hard you try, don't fit conventional cabinets and storage units,' says Melanie Griffiths, editor, Period Living. 'This is where it's best to invest in a joiner who can make you a bespoke entryway closet, the benefits far outweigh the costs as you really get to have what suits you and your family best.'

3. Opt for a mix of storage options

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'For a family home, a hallway closest, shoe cupboard and modern entryway bench ideas are perfect to house coats and shoes for all the family,' advises Paul Deckland, The Cotswold Company . 'Using pieces with seating space, is also practical when there are several people leaving the house at once. '

4. Go for a truly bespoke entryway closet

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'The entryway is often an under-appreciated area that offers great potential, both for style and shoe storage ideas,' says Ben Burbidge, Managing Director at Kitchen Makers . 'If space is limited, take a creative approach with built in cupboards and drawers. Try to use every available inch and wherever possible opt for dual purpose; such as a seating area with a shoe storage area underneath. 

An entryway is also the perfect space in which to experiment with color, or to add accents that complement the rest of the house,'

5. Make the most of existing features

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'Some old houses will come with entry closets that were built-in, potentially for different uses to what one may need today, but nonetheless, really useful spaces that can be converted with hanging and drawer storage for all of your entryway storage needs,' says Andrea Childs, editor, Country Homes & Interiors.

6. Go high with your cabinetry 

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'The entryway performs as a gateway to the main house and kitchen,' says Ben Hawkswell, senior designer at Roundhouse . 'Therefore, we needed it to be stylish and hard wearing. Our Rough Sawn Oak textured veneer creates a natural feel, while also being durable, so the owners can be confident that it will stand the test of time in this high traffic space.'

'We took advantage of the high ceilings and built the cabinetry over and around the doorway and created a neat little bench in front of the concealed shoe storage dresser.'

7. Paint your entryway closet in a bold color

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Liven up entryway ideas for apartments by painting the closet cabinets in a vibrant color. Be sure to use a durable, wipeable finish suitable for use on wood as these are high-traffic areas susceptible to knocks and scrapes.

'Create an all encompassing feel by painting your entryway closet and surrounding walls in a deep navy,' says Lucy Searle, editor-in-chief, Homes & Gardens. 'Add in some invaluable shoe storage, a peg rail to keep all your outdoor essentials in order.'

8. Create a two-tone scheme 

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A two-tone scheme is a simple way to breathe new life into any existing hallway paint ideas. This design feature means you can incorporate a splash of bold color with a calmer one, as well as making it easier for you to choose between your favourite colors.

'Rich dark greens have a receding quality that gives the illusion of walls being further away, doing away with the myth that smaller spaces should be painted in lighter colors to make them seem bigger,' says Ruth Mottershead, Creative Director at Little Greene .

9. Use symmetry with your entryway closets

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Symmetry in interior design creates balance and a feeling of calm – and while it is wonderfully elegant in large rooms, it can also create a feeling of enhanced space in smaller rooms, and those that are very busy.

'In this Cotswold farmhouse, each side of the entrance hall is a mirror image of each other creating symmetry,' says Chris Spink, founder of Hush Kitchens . 'Bespoke floor-to-ceiling built-in cabinets stand either side of the door providing a variety of storage options (both closed and open shelving), while useful oak topped benches featuring useful pull-out drawers flank each wall.'

10. Utilize the space under the stairs 

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'For the space conscious, under stairs ideas for a small entryway are just what you need to ensure one of the most cumbersome parts of the house is not being underused,' says Jennifer Ebert, digital editor, Homes & Gardens.

‘Awkward spaces like the one under the stairs present the perfect opportunity to be creative,’ says interior designer Emma Sims-Hilditch . ‘We make a point of devising intelligent entryway storage solutions for our clients to help them to get the most out of their home.’

Under stairs cupboards make great entryway closets, offering height at one end for tall tools and appliances. Plus, they can be painted to match the rest of the home, as demonstrated here. 

How do I organize my entryway closet?

The best way to organize an entryway closet is to make a list of everything you need when you enter and exit your home. Good storage makes or breaks an entryway – and you can never have enough hooks, hangers, cupboard and cubbies to keep all your kit in place.

A mix of open and closed cabinets, shelving, hooks, and shoe racks should all figure in your entryway closet ideas.

Sophie has been an interior stylist and journalist for over 20 years and has worked for many of the main interior magazines during that time, both in-house and as a freelancer. On the side, as well as being the News Editor for indie magazine, 91, she trained to be a florist in 2019 and launched The Prettiest Posy where she curates beautiful flowers for modern weddings and events. For H&G, she writes features about interior design – and is known for having an eye for a beautiful room.

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Take your hall closet from crammed to decluttered with these hall closet organization ideas. They are simple, cheap and creative. You’ll be saying “Why didn’t I think of that?”

What’s in your hall closet? Can you accurately answer this question? Really?

Traditionally, the closet in the front hall was intended solely as a place for coats, jackets and other weather-related items. However, times have changed.

Today, the hall closets in many homes and apartments are filled with an astonishing number of things not even remotely related to coats, hats, or umbrellas. Sporting goods, ironing boards, vacuum cleaners, last year’s Christmas decorations, a dozen spare extension cords–the list goes on and on. If this describes your hall closet, you might be searching for the best way to organize this small, yet crucial space in your home. Wouldn’t you love to get organized and reduce the clutter?

Today we’re sharing helpful hall closet organization ideas for all kinds of closets–whether you’re storing linens, utility items, and cleaners or traditional coats and outerwear. Let these 17 closet before-and-afters motivate you to declutter and straighten up your hall closet space. 

Hall Closet Organization Ideas to Save Space (and Your Sanity)

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What Should Be Stored In A Hall Closet?

It may seem like a no-brainer, but the very first step in organizing your hall closet is simply asking yourself: What should I store in my hallway closet?

It’s true that you can store anything you need to in your hall closet, from outerwear and bags to shoes and extra cleaning supplies. But this question is helpful to consider before you head off to the store to purchase new closet organization shelves, invest in an organization system, or even bust out your DIY tools, because it can be helpful to pare down what you really need to store in your small hall closet. Maybe some of your shoes can be moved into the garage, or maybe you have enough basement storage to store winter coats, hats, and scarves during the warmer months. 

What you store in your hallway closet is ultimately up to you, but ensuring your closet isn’t stuffed to the brim with unnecessary items will help make your life easier when it comes time to implement these organization tips.

The Coat Closet

The coat closet always seems to be an overstuffed mess. Organizing shoes, coats, bags, hats and mittens will help ease the winter morning routine.

1. Hook it up.

A coat closet stuffed full of hangers is always a mess. Those coats never seem to stay put! Swap out a closet rod for a hook hanging system. These coat closets look so much more neat and functional. Plus, kids and adults are more likely to hang their coats on a hook than a hanger.

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This version from The Real Housewives of Riverton accommodates everyone in the house, big and small.

2. Pitch the piles.

Getting your stuff off the floor instantly eliminates visual clutter. On the other hand, shoes thrown at the bottom of a closet create an instant mess.

Try a peg wall for shoe storage. Simplify the morning routine by making sure shoes are right next to their partners and easy to grab. This solution from Saw Dust Girl keeps all footwear in its place.

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If you aren’t much of a handy DIYer, add shoe bins to keep kids’ kicks in order. Gina at Camp Clean used clear plastic drawer storage and personalized each drawer with a photo. That’s certainly an easy and adorable shoe organization method.

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Do you need some ways to store those winter boots? Here are three simple ways to store boots and save some space.

3. Use every available inch.

Adding behind the door storage adds to your closet’s square footage. Placing bins, baskets or even just simply a hanging shoe rack will give alternative storage space for smaller items.

Chelsea from Two Twenty One added storage to a blank space in her closet by hanging rods with command hooks to the inside of the closet door.

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Angela over at blue i style keeps hats and mittens properly placed with an over the door shoe rack.

The combination of baskets and hooks on the door of this closet by Made 2 Make is so functional. This simple addition to her coat closet keeps mail out of the way but also in plain sight.

4. Add shelves wherever you can.

Create more spaces for bins and shoes by adding shelves and cubicles where there would normally be wasted space. Look under or above the space where you hang coats for space for a new shelf.

This coat closet makeover from Green Street has extra storage at the top and bottom of a closet, creating a more functional place to store shoes and other items.

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The Utility Closet

There’s nothing like having to dig out cleaning supplies from an overstuffed closet to make you lose all motivation for cleaning before you even begin. If your hall closet doubles as a utility closet, we feel for you. Here are some tips for keeping this shared closet orderly and your supplies right at your fingertips.

1. Pretty up a pegboard.

Placing all your cleaning utensils on a pegboard keeps things off the floor and easy to spot when you need them. Check out this utility closet Missy put together on her blog Lookie What I Did. Such an attractive method to organize her tools.

2. When in doubt, use a basket.

Corral all cleaning supplies into one basket for an easy grab-and-go solution. These designated, room by room cleaning baskets from Home Made by Carmona’s hall closet house specific cleaning items for certain rooms or areas of the home. You can grab and go to the room armed with all the utensils you need to specifically clean bedrooms, bathrooms or your kitchen. Ursula suggested hanging them from a tension rod with hooks. She has even tucked a cleaning checklist in each basket.

Want to include cleaning checklists in your hall closet baskets? Here are some printable checklists to get you started: Daily, Weekly and Monthly Cleaning Checklists for your Whole Home

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Add a tension rod to hang brooms, mops and dusters.

Keep your cleaning supplies from falling all over the place by keeping them up in a handy spot.  Hooks on the back of a door or a tension rod with hooks is a successful storage solution. When in doubt, adding hooks on the back of a door is space saving.

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4. Think outside of the box.

Organization is all about working with what you have to find creative solutions that work for your specific needs. This shoe rack turned into a paper towel holder has your paper towels ready to clean up spills in a jiffy. Maybe not the most necessary organization idea for you, but it is certainly creative!

The Linen Closet

If your hall closet is home to linens, we have some ideas for you, too. Linen closets are usually a small space in every house, so it becomes very easy to just stuff in sheets and towels and forget about it. Once that door closes, the mess is out of sight and out of mind–until you have to find what you’re looking for the next time you go in there.

Having items in bins and baskets creates a more organized space and a linen closet where anyone can put away linens easily. Here are a few linen closet organization ideas to try.

1. Roll instead of fold.

In a home with children, and even for some adults, folding towels and fitted sheets into the perfect square is a chore in itself. So why not roll your linens? Just as it does in a suitcase, the rolling method creates more space and you do not have to worry about an imperfect fold. Carmel from Our Fifth House rolls fitted and flat sheets and sticks them into fabric bins.

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2. Did we mention baskets?

Whether you roll or fold your linens to organize them, grouping similar items in baskets will add extra space to every shelf in your closet. Try placing small items in a basket or an under shelf crate to maximize your shelf area and keep you organized.

3. Invest in item-specific organizers.

Add space for unique and hard-to-organize items in your hall closet by seeking out specific organizers sold online or at a home goods store. For example, you’ll never misplace your gift wrapping supplies again after buying one of these mounted wrapping paper caddies.

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Bonus: On the topic of gift wrapping, here gift bags are organized by being suspended under a wire rack with hooks. If you have wire shelving in your hall closet, have you ever thought to hang hooks from the bottom for extra storage? Inventive!

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4. Divide and conquer.

Tricia and Jason at Simplicity in the South use dividers in their linen closet to keep sheets organized and in place. Dividers like this would also be perfect for towels, too. A stack won’t fall out of place when a divider has got its back.

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Read Also: 8 Linen Closet Storage Hacks to Help You Stay Organized

How to Organize Your Multi-Purpose Hall Closet

What happens when you live in a small space and only have one closet that has to store everything? If you live in a home where your hall closet is a small, but mighty multipurpose storage space, here are some solutions from my own closet makeover to keep everything organized and easy to find.

1. Unify the space with a color theme.

Here is my family’s hall closet. It serves as extra pantry space, the pet supply area, a linen closet, a utility closet, and a game storage space. As you can see, the before was a mess of everything all over the place.

Creating a color scheme sounds silly, but here is my “after.” Since this closet is a drop zone for so many different items, creating a unified color scheme helps it look less cluttered. Do you agree?

I rolled linens into attractive baskets, placed similar pantry items into cute bins, and organized all of the paper products together. This color-coded bin method isn’t only more efficient, but it also simply looks like the closet is well organized and helps my family find what they are looking for.

2. Create zones.

I dedicated zones in my hall closet–basically corners and shelves–to a certain purpose. I now have a game/kids area, a pantry space, a linen area, and a space for cleaners. This closet organization hack helps me find what I need quickly because I know what section of my multi–purpose closet to go to when looking for a specific item.

3. Eliminate the extra.

Is there anything in your closet that can be consolidated or gotten rid of completely? As we mentioned earlier, try to rid yourself of unnecessary items, bulky boxes, or storage containers that take up too much room during the closet organization process. For example, removing the games from their boxes added more shelf space in my closet. Having them stored in smaller containers makes them easier to pull out and put away, and it also rids the closet of a lot of extra clutter and chaos.

This method of eliminating the excess in your hall closet also extends to items like batteries and paper products. Why keep the bulky and oddly shaped battery packaging when I can fit the batteries into a concise bin that matches the rest of my closet? Changes like this help the space look much more organized.

Need some guidance on getting rid of unnecessary items? Our article on The Konmari Closet Method is a great place to get started.

4. Add labels!

There’s nothing worse than taking the time to purge and organize a closet space if your family is just going to destroy it again after a week or so of use. Adding some easy-to-make labels can keep your sanity and your family members in the loop once you’ve finished organizing your hall closet. If you can’t see what is in the basket or bin, label it. This helps you find what you need quickly and also helps other members of your household keep the closet as orderly as they found it.

Are you organizing pantry items in your closet? Get free pantry labels here.

5. Organize board games with office supplies.

Instead of only looking for bins and baskets in the organization area of the store, a great organizational tip is to search in office supply section or the bathroom storage aisle, too. The perfect resolution for an organization problem may be where you normally wouldn’t look. For example, these document folders ended up being the best storage solution for board games and puzzles.

Small office storage bins keep tiny pieces within reach while these mini file folders were practically made for Monopoly money.

Hall Closet Organization Systems to Keep Stress at Bay

An organized hall closet can be the first step to keeping the rest of your home in order. When you have an orderly and attractive storage space that organizes everything you need, it may inspire you to keep up with your scheduled chores, and get other family members inspired to declutter, too–making it a win-win all around.

All organized? The next step is maintaining your new organizational system. Check out our article on How to Clean a Closet and KEEP It Organized for some helpful tips. 

This post was first published on 8/9/2017, was revised on 4/30/2020, and was updated on 9/23/2022 to provide new information.

Built-in closet in the hallway, features and specifications

The hallway is one of the important parts of the room. Guests are welcomed and escorted here. There is a large amount of furniture for arranging this room, and among all the variety, a built-in wardrobe in the hallway is considered the best option. This furniture will help to securely hide outerwear, shoes and other additional accessories. But most importantly, it can fit into a room with any area, without limiting free space. 9Ol000 down to the smallest detail in design and internal arrangement, the wardrobe for the hallway has the following advantages:

Another advantage of the furniture is that it can close wall defects, as well as the interior of the heating system, which spoils the view in the hallway.

According to consumers, there are no shortcomings in built-in wardrobes. When choosing built-in wardrobes, it must be taken into account that this is a stationary installation. Therefore, it will not be possible to move it.

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There are many ideas when choosing built-in wardrobes. Therefore, in order to visually select a model to your taste, while taking into account the structural features of the room, you need to familiarize yourself with them in detail. For a visual assessment, you should pay attention to the photo of built-in wardrobes in the hallway. Among the variety, it is worth highlighting the following models:

With hinged doors Radius Corner Wardrobe compartment

This is an ordinary design that is suitable for any room. A closet with not much depth is built into a small hallway. But when choosing it, it must be taken into account that it is installed on a flat surface.

This is the most popular model for a small hallway. The design of such furniture saves space, due to sliding doors. The volume of the internal structure of the cabinet allows you to place a sufficient number of things in it. Small cabinets are made with two doors, the maximum number of them can be 5. The width of the models varies from 1 to 1.5 meters.

Louvre furniture was created in hot countries with a humid climate. Due to the design of the door, they are able to pass air for ventilation of the interior, without letting in sunlight. Due to this, dampness from wet clothes does not accumulate inside the furniture, preventing its deformation and eliminating unpleasant odors.

This model fits well in Khrushchev. The built-in corner design will take up little free space. But since this furniture has sliding doors, when choosing it, it must be taken into account that in the hallway the walls, floor and ceiling must be even. Otherwise, from a skewed design, the doors will not open well.

The unusual design of this model has gained general popularity. This model connects the floor and ceiling with a futuristic composition. Such a cabinet can decorate any hallway, while occupying a minimum of free space.

Production materials

For long-term use of cabinets in the hallway, it is necessary to take into account the criteria of the materials from which they are made.

Chipboard

Popular furniture material. It consists of pressed wood shavings with the use of formaldehyde resins in small concentrations. The advantages of the material include ease of manufacture, strength, low cost and environmental friendliness. Chipboard, which is used to make cabinets, has a wide range of colors. It is produced in the EU countries, Russia and Eastern Europe. For the manufacture of decent quality cabinets, it is recommended to choose Russian-made chipboard.

MDF

These are fibreboards made from dried wood fibers by gluing with polymeric substances. Such material is valued for its high strength, elasticity, durability and high resistance to moisture. MDF facades are well milled, which helps manufacturers to realize their ideas in creating beautiful cabinets. However, when choosing it, you should pay attention to the cost. Since this is the most environmentally friendly material, compared to others, accordingly, its price is much higher.

Fiberboard

This material is also used for built-in wardrobes. It consists of forestry waste with binders such as paraffin and formaldehyde resins. Such plates have always been in good demand all over the world. But when choosing this material, it is necessary to take into account its poor resistance to moisture.

Natural wood

Strange as it may sound, it is no more difficult to construct furniture from natural wood than from ready-made boards. It is an environmentally friendly, strong, durable material. For the construction of built-in wardrobes in the apartment, both a planed board and a lining are used. The only drawback of this material is that it is not resistant to changes in temperature and humidity.

Filling and mandatory elements

In order for the built-in wardrobe in Khrushchev to have all the convenience functions, we must not forget that it is built in for more than one year. Therefore, in order to immediately find out which sections are needed in the interior, it is worth considering the following photo design:

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For complete convenience, the following options for additional elements will serve as a basic design:

Selection rules The most important point when choosing a built-in wardrobe in the hallway is its design. The entire functionality of the cabinet will depend on the correct calculations. Therefore, in order to avoid mistakes that will entail a lot of additional costs, it is recommended to invite a specialist for design calculations.

Another important element when choosing a built-in wardrobe is its facade. Given that the walls of this furniture are not visible, the facade is the front part. When choosing cabinets with additional lighting, the entrance hall in Khrushchev will acquire a certain mystery. And when choosing with built-in mirrors, the area of ​​​​a small room will visually increase.

When designing built-in furniture in a small hallway, it is also necessary to take into account the interior of the apartment. If you miss this moment, in the future, the finished wardrobe will not be combined with the design of the rooms, which in turn will indicate the owner's bad taste.

The choice of cabinet color depends on the preference of the customer. But there are a few useful tips to keep in mind. So, according to the recommendations of experts for the hallway, it is better to choose dark colors, as they visually make the furniture smaller. Fits well into the interior and cabinets with wood texture, which with their color create additional comfort in Khrushchev.

Before choosing a company that will produce a small built-in wardrobe, you need to familiarize yourself with its prices and the qualifications of its employees. To find out the quality of their work, you will need to request a complaint book, or read consumer reviews.

Built-in wardrobe is a popular solution for those who want to have the most comfortable and functional furniture at a relatively low cost. This design implies individual execution in each particular apartment. Unlike case counterparts, it is rigidly fixed to the walls and floor, not being able to move to another place. Today we will tell you what the built-in wardrobe looks like in the hallway, and also show photos of various ideas for its design.

Built-in cabinet features

Models of built-in wardrobes are mainly made according to individual projects, taking into account the peculiarities of the hallway. To date, this is not news, because almost any piece of furniture is made to order.

For a built-in wardrobe, building structures (floor, walls, ceiling) are used as a basis. A storage system is being implemented up to the ceiling. A rigid fastening to the installation site is provided, so this model is stationary and cannot be moved to another place without dismantling.

Pay attention! If there is a niche in the hallway or one of the walls is free, then you only need doors and internal filling: shelves, drawers, rods. The structure of such a storage system allows you to accommodate many things. This is necessary for small apartments, where every meter is registered.

Before you make a built-in closet in the hallway, consider its location. It could be:

In our article you can see various design ideas for a built-in closet in the hallway in the photo.

Advantages and disadvantages of a built-in wardrobe

A built-in closet allows you to use every occupied meter of the hallway as profitably as possible. Made to order, it fits perfectly into the space. The owners themselves decide how long and deep the built-in furniture will be, how many doors it will have.

What other advantages can be found in such a model?

Built-in wardrobe is not made for one year. Therefore, the disadvantage of this model is that it cannot be moved to another location. You will either have to completely dismantle the entire structure, or get used to it. In extreme cases, you can change the facades to others, thereby giving the corridor a new look.

Types of built-in cabinets

Under the built-in wardrobe in the hallway, choose the most convenient place in the corner or along the corridor, which will not interfere with the movement of family members. According to the shape of the facade, such a storage system can be:

Each type is intended for a specific place in the hallway and is interesting and original in its own way. The names show the shape of the façade. The corner is located along two adjoining walls. Radius have rounded walls and doors. Such models are valued for their interesting design and good depth.

Line cabinets are usually built into a niche, located along one of the walls from corner to corner, or mounted along a long corridor. The shape of the facade is carried out in one line. Length, number of doors are made at the request of the owners. Sometimes the built-in corner cabinet is made in the form of a triangle, then its facade is also located along one line.

Doors

The built-in cabinet is equipped mainly with two types of doors, each of which has its own advantages and disadvantages. The opening systems differ in the appearance of the facades, but they should fit well into the decor of the hallway, in harmony with the entire interior.

Traditional

Swing doors are opened using hinges located on the side panels of the cabinet. Modern fittings are designed for thousands of openings, they have closers that shift the canvases so that they do not touch the neighboring ones, helping them to move smoothly.

Traditional doors are made with restrictions in width (no more than 65 cm) and in height - the maximum height of the material used. They are sensitive to the shortcomings of the floors and side panels on which they are attached. Such doors, unlike compartment doors, open in full width at once.

Sliding doors

Sliding doors do not have hinges, they open with the help of a roller mechanism, lower and upper, installed in the frame. Such a system is no less reliable than the traditional one, it has stoppers that fix the doors in the “closed” position.

The quality of compartment doors often depends on the execution of the frame along which the door leaves move. They are made of the following materials:

Compartment canvases are much wider than traditional ones (up to 120 cm and more) and higher. They can be made from the same material, or they can carry a different combination of chipboard, mirrors, and plastic. Everything is connected in one frame and separated from each other by transverse profiles. Such a system opens only partially or half due to one of the canvases that has rolled back.

In a narrow corridor, it will be more convenient to have a closet with a sliding door system, which, when rolled away, does not interfere with the passage. But the compartment mechanism takes up to 10 cm from the depth of the cabinet, it turns out that the shelves themselves will be less wide. This must be remembered when solving the dilemma of which doors to install in the closet.

Compartment built-in wardrobe will become more expensive due to a more modern opening system, which requires constant care. To prevent dust and dirt from accumulating in the chassis, they must be constantly vacuumed and cleaned.

Built-in wardrobe front

Which material is best for the cabinet front depends on the chosen opening system. The usual traditional version significantly reduces the possibility of using various new products, but this does not mean that it will look worse. It all depends on the desire of the owners.

Cabinet interior not visible. The main condition here is convenience and functionality. But the facades are a continuation of the space, and are in full view. Beautiful doors with original ideas can be demonstrated like in a museum. For example, you can make part of the facade transparent, and put your favorite shoes or hats on the illuminated shelves behind it. Such a composition will only decorate the hallway.

Thinking about the facade, you can choose more economical panels made of chipboard, MDF or give preference to expensive original models made of glass and mirrors.

Mirror

This option is always unusual, and for small hallways it will add depth and spaciousness, visually increasing the size of the room. Designers offer to create a harmonious combination of mirrors with other materials. You can choose mirrors with various patterns created by sandblasting or chemically applying an image inside the material. Modern technologies help to make the drawing more complex and voluminous.

Film

On the reverse side of thick glass, a decorative film is attached, which is made of PVC with special additives. This composition adds durability and strength to glass. It is possible to order an opaque facade, matte, glossy or with various mosaic or abstract patterns. Films also ensure the safety of the material. If the surface of the facade is damaged, glass fragments do not scatter.

Acrylic plastic

Acrylic facade can be either glossy or matt. Such material does not contain harmful impurities, so when using it, you should not be afraid for your health. Due to the flexibility of acrylic, radius cabinet doors are made from it. Doors made of this material have a lighter weight, which reduces the profile load, respectively, increasing the life of the furniture.

Important! On acrylic, you can apply drawings or purchase panels with decorative filling from leaves, flowers, coffee beans.

Photo facades

Photo printing applied to the surface of the facades creates large pictures in the interior of the hallway. Such surfaces look original and exclusive. The drawing can be selected according to the taste of the owners. Modern technologies allow you to apply an image from various media.

Leather, textiles, wallpaper

Another way to obtain original facades for a built-in wardrobe is to decorate the door surface with leather inserts, various textiles, and wallpaper. The color and texture is selected, suitable for the general interior of the hallway.

Wood, rattan, bamboo

Such natural materials will always be in demand. They are valued for their beauty and strength, have an individual surface pattern. Such facades bring a sense of serenity, peace, touch to wildlife, refresh the interior and can be in operation for many years.

Chipboard, MDF

Materials are popular because of their democratic value. They may have different finishes. For chipboard, lamination or veneer is used. MDF is also used in a painted state with possible images.

Filling the built-in closet in the hallway

The built-in closet allows you to keep not only outerwear and shoes. For small apartments, such a storage system will be the way out if it is not possible to put cabinet furniture in the room. The modern version of the wardrobe consists of many elements that serve to optimize things inside: drawers, shelves, baskets, hooks, rails.

Traditionally, a built-in wardrobe has three levels: shoes are on the lower level, the middle one is for clothes, and infrequently used items are on the mezzanine. Modern storage systems can deviate from accepted rules and arrange things more functionally. How well the storage of clothes and shoes is thought out, how economically the internal space will be used and its operation will be convenient. Wardrobe can be filled with:

The built-in closet can be filled with other elements: trouser hangers, shoe racks, bag hooks.

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