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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.

17 Brilliant Tips & Hacks

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.

Dressing room in the hallway: 55 photos, design options

Types of wardrobes

There are several main varieties.

Wardrobe in the hallway

Multifunctional, practical and mobile furniture, which, if necessary, can be moved to another place and thus remodel the interior.

The photo shows a white wardrobe with hinged doors in the hallway in the interior of the house. nine0005

Built-in dressing room in the hallway

Differs in a holistic and monolithic look. An organic design built into a niche or closet allows you to save usable space in the room. In addition, such a dressing room will be the best choice for a corridor that has a complex architectural shape.

The photo shows a corridor with a wardrobe built into the pantry.

Corner dressing room in the hallway

Trapezoidal, triangular or radius modular products are equipped with spacious shelves, drawers and crossbars for things. So that the design does not look bulky, it is appropriate to install a fully open or combined type of wardrobe. Designs with mirrored facades will help to visually increase the area of ​​​​a small corridor. nine0005

Particular attention should be paid to semi-circular products, which may differ in concave, convex or wavy shape. Radius models outwardly look stylish, modern and give the interior a special sophistication.

The photo shows a corner dressing room in the design of a modern hallway.

Open wardrobe

It is made in the form of wooden, metal or plastic racks equipped with rails, baskets and hangers. Such a storage system takes up a minimum of space, gives the corridor an easy look, but constantly needs perfect order. nine0005

The photo shows a corridor in the interior of the house, equipped with an open wardrobe.

Closed dressing room

May be small or equipped with several isolated sections. This type of wardrobe allows you to neatly store things, hide from prying eyes and protect from dust. The design is complemented with doors, which are decorated with beautiful fittings, mirrors and other decorative details. nine0005

The photo shows a closed dressing room with sliding doors in the hallway interior.

Entrance hall layout

In some spacious corridor designs, the wardrobe can be separated by a false plasterboard wall and a door can be installed. Thus, it will turn out to create a separate dressing room in the hallway.

For a long and elongated room, the built-in model is mainly used, located along one wall.

The organization of the wardrobe near the front door has significant advantages. This option involves a more convenient change of clothes, and makes it unnecessary to carry clothes through the entire apartment.

The photo shows the interior of a narrow modern hallway with a wardrobe built into the wall.

In the hallway, which has a non-standard shape and has beveled corners, beams, various ledges, etc. , it would be appropriate to place a built-in wardrobe, which, unlike rectangular cabinet products, fits more organically into space and saves square meters. nine0005

The photo shows a built-in wardrobe in a niche in the design of a small corridor.

The photo shows the interior of the corridor with a wardrobe located in the pantry.

Where is the best location?

The dressing room in the hallway can be arranged in different places. The location will depend on the area of ​​​​the room, its planning features and design, as well as on the size of the wardrobe itself.

Dressing room in the hallway niche

Many corridor spaces initially have recesses and recesses in which it is appropriate to equip a stylish makeshift dressing room. The wardrobe in the niche is designed in accordance with the surrounding interior. It is left open or supplemented with hinged, sliding or folding doors. They select canvases made of wood, plastic, glass or install sashes with a mirror and laminated surface. nine0005

The photo shows an open wardrobe in a niche in the hallway interior.

In the corner of the hallway

Most often it is the best solution for a corridor in a Khrushchev apartment. Thanks to a well-thought-out internal filling, this design can accommodate the clothes of all family members. The design with the letter p or r will perfectly fit into the corner space, a model of a semicircular or trapezoidal shape.

Dressing room along the wall of the corridor

It is appropriate to place a large wardrobe near one wall in the corridor. A universal option in the hallway is a narrow dressing room in the form of a rectangular rack for outerwear, shoes and hats.

Features of the internal filling

The upper tier is occupied by headwear, the middle section is outerwear, and the lower segment is distributed under shoes.

The main functional parts are rods or pantograph, as well as elements in the form of boxes, shelves, baskets, pull-out trousers, skirts and special sections for household items. nine0005

The photo shows a variant of the interior equipment of a dressing room built into a spacious niche.

A closet is often equipped with shoe organizers, hanging accessory baskets, belt hangers, or even a built-in iron attachment.

Thanks to various accessories and fillers, it turns out to simplify the operation of the dressing room and stimulate the maintenance of perfect order in it.

How to design a dressing room: design ideas

There are an unlimited number of both budget and luxury materials that allow you to create a stylish and original wardrobe design. The most popular solution is to use laminated MDF or chipboard, natural wood, metal, plastic and mirrors.

Mirror facades are unique, they can not only decorate the interior of the hallway, but also adjust its volume and level of lighting.

Natural and natural character, will give the interior inserts made of bamboo or rattan. Designs complemented by photo printing with a variety of images that fit the overall interior style look very advantageous. nine0005

The photo shows an oriental-style hallway interior with a wardrobe-compartment decorated with inserts.

A wardrobe with a glass facade decorated with painting, film stained glass, fusing, beveli, batik or fresco will look really interesting and unusual.

Classic style dressing room can be decorated with carvings, skirting boards or pilasters. For doors, patination, gilding are used, and special nets are used to create the effect of aging. nine0005

Pictured is a corner wardrobe with a matte glass front decorated with drawings.

What if the hallway is small?

In a small corridor, it would be appropriate to place the structure at an angle. For this, a product in the form of a corner wardrobe or a shelving unit with combined closed and open shelves is suitable. In some cases, the corner can be fenced off with a plasterboard partition and equipped with a doorway in it. Thus, an ergonomic triangular-shaped dressing room will be obtained. nine0005

For a small or narrow hallway, a closet close to a long wall is also suitable. Sliding compartment systems from floor to ceiling, installed across the entire width of the wall plane. The interior space is equipped with shelves, roof rails, baskets, shoe racks and more.

The photo shows a small entrance hall with a built-in closed wardrobe.

There is a mini wardrobe, which is a compact open structure for storing the most necessary things, which is mainly located near the entrance. A small dressing room in the hallway includes elements in the form of a shoe rack, hangers or hooks, as well as shelves for hats. nine0005

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The dressing room in the hallway provides an excellent classification of necessary things and their orderly storage. The presence of a wardrobe allows you to rationally use the free space, unload the room, rid it of unnecessary furniture items and make the atmosphere cozy and comfortable.

Dressing room in the hallway — INMYROOM

But in reality, not every apartment can afford such a “luxury”. Therefore, the dressing room has to be placed in any of the rooms. Usually this is a bedroom or a corridor, less often a living room. But if you use your imagination and do not forget about some of the nuances, you can get a fairly convenient storage system in any of these rooms. Below we will talk about how to equip a dressing pantry in the hallway

Advantages of a dressing room in the hallway

The first thing to note is convenience: when you need to go outside, you will have everything at hand. And when you return, it is very convenient to quickly change into your home “uniform”. In the hallway itself, there is complete order, because clothes (including outerwear), shoes, bags, scarves, etc. are behind sliding doors. The dressing room in the hallway also performs other functions:

Types of dressing room in the hallway

Today there are quite a lot of design options for the described storage system. The choice of one or another method of its arrangement is connected with the size of the corridor, its configuration, as well as the personal preferences of the owner of the living space. The most common options are discussed below. nine0207

Corner dressing room in the hallway

Its arrangement makes sense in a corridor with a large area. The design can be completely closed. But so that it does not look overly massive, open storage areas are often provided. The internal filling is made up of shelves, hangers, drawers, baskets, hooks, etc. The corner dressing room in the hallway can be classic, with rectangular cabinets, or semicircular (radius). The last option is suitable for a large corridor. In any case, it is recommended to use wardrobes: only they can save space - it is extremely inconvenient to open swing doors in a small corridor. You can purchase a ready-made dressing room or make it yourself. Need to consider:

Wardrobe built into a niche

Having a niche in the hallway of the house is a real success. You have the opportunity to place a dressing room, while maintaining the integrity of the space. If the built-in wardrobe is purchased, then it is necessary to choose a product that will match the dimensions of the niche as accurately as possible. But still the best option is to order a dressing room or make it yourself. In any case, one cannot fail to note the obvious advantages of such a design:

The only negative is that such a structure cannot be transported or rearranged to another place.

Dressing room with hinged doors

This option is suitable for relatively large corridors. The dressing room with hinged doors will fit perfectly into the classic style of the interior. If the cabinets are made independently or they are custom-made, then you can use non-standard fittings that diversify the design. As for the internal filling, three standard compartments are most often equipped: the upper one is for hats, the middle one is for clothes, and the shoes are placed in the lower one. The disadvantage of swing structures is obvious: it is very inconvenient to open the doors in a narrow corridor. nine0005

Wardrobes

This is the most popular option for today. Such designs effectively save space, do not create interference in the form of open doors. Another plus is the design of the facade: its appearance can emphasize the stylistic direction of the room. An important advantage of the design is that its doors are sometimes made in the form of a full-length mirror. In this case, you do not have to buy this necessary item separately and look for a place to place it. Most often, this type of wardrobe is installed along one wall. The peculiarity of wardrobes is that there is always the possibility of acquiring a narrow design with a width of only 40 cm, which is important for cramped corridors, for example, in Khrushchev. Standard filling of the dressing room in the hallway with a wardrobe:

When buying a sliding wardrobe, pay special attention to the sliding mechanism: the rollers and guides must be metal - this guarantees a long service life of the system. The same applies to fittings: plastic elements do not last long, and in the event of a breakdown, it will be very difficult to find exactly the same part with a huge selection of modern furniture. nine0005

Design: Anna and Daniil Shchepanovich

Dressing room with open shelves

In most cases, home owners try to hide the contents of the dressing room behind hinged or sliding doors. However, this solution somewhat burdens the interior. Therefore, lovers of light, airy design prefer designs with open shelves. Such dressing rooms imply a complete or partial absence of facade elements. Usually they close the lower and upper compartments, and the sector for outerwear remains open. In some cases, the complete absence of doors is provided. As a result, the dressing room consists only of shelves and dividing walls. Sometimes a pouffe is added here, sitting on which it is convenient to put on shoes, especially for older people. Designs with open shelves are very convenient in small hallways. nine0005

Design: Marina Sargsyan

Materials for the manufacture of dressing room facades

Modern technologies have actually “abolished” any restrictions on the choice of materials for facades. Manufacturers offer both exclusive and budget options for arranging wardrobes. Each material used in the manufacture of the facade has its pros and cons, but more about everything.

  1. Chipboard and MDF. In the first case, the surface is laminated - covered with a special film that imitates rocks, wood, stone, etc. MDF is a more interesting material: it can be painted or any image applied to the surface. And if the MDF is subjected to milling, then you can get the facade of the most intricate shape. nine0207
  2. Mirror. One of the most popular facade design options. The mirror can be ordinary, tinted or stylized antique. In the latter case, excessive flashiness is excluded.
  3. Tempered lacquered glass. An innovative material, which is a translucent panel of various shades.
  4. Natural wood. A classic option that naturally continues the classic design of the hallway and emphasizes the taste of the owners and their respectability. nine0207
  5. Glass (matt, colored). In its pure form, it is not used: most often, a pattern is applied to the surface using sandblasting equipment. Image can be ordered. It is also worth noting stained glass windows, which involve the use of individual glass elements glued to the surface in order to create an ornament (the most common technology is Tiffany).
  6. Plastic. Its main advantages are a huge selection of colors and low cost.
  7. Faux leather, rattan and bamboo are extravagant and expensive ways to design facades.
  8. Combined facades. Here several materials are used simultaneously. For example, the canvas can be made of laminated chipboard, and the inserts can be made of leather or bamboo.

Filling the wardrobe in the hallway

Before equipping the wardrobe inside, it is necessary to take into account some nuances. First of all, this is ventilation: on the back wall, at the bottom, there should be holes that allow air to pass through. This ensures that there are no unpleasant odors. Also pay attention to lighting: here the best option is the use of spotlights. Other highlights:

Design: Alexey Kovyazin

Dressing room in a small hallway

The best option for small hallways is to use a wardrobe from floor to ceiling.

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