Your hall

looking the other way

I'm like you Greysuster ....door opens onto 4x4 lobby which just about holds 5 coat pegs and a shoe rack.... I'd love a bigger hall like when I was a child. Brought up in a council house with large rooms and a decent size hallway which held the staircase... A big hall stand...a half table ( where the phone sat)...and an understands loo. Can't swing a cat in these modern semi's.

A bit untidy!

My hall is long and L shaped, as well as being full of doors (9!) and narrow.
So, not much to say about it really, except the doors are awful as well.
It has a few bits and pieces up on the walls, and a big untidy bookcase.

My hall is Z shaped painted white and oak floored. Hanging on the wall facing the front door is a canvas of "The Three Graces" (Liverpool waterfront for those of you who would not recognise it) Liver Building, Cunard Building and The Customs House (as was) or Mersey Docks and Harbour Board. I was brought up in a leafy suburb of Liverpool and worked there, although I have been living here in Conwy for 47 years consider myself a Scouser - no people like them, friendly, kind and generous with a marvellous sense of humour.

my hall is tiny! it has the stairs running from it plus three doors. there is an under stairs part which has been filled up with a breakfast bar my daughter bought and then has no use for so you can't get to the shelves around the walls which hold my cds, dvds and videos.
in the summer after doing various bits and pieces in the garden i'm hoping the breakfast bar will go into my greenhouse so it can be used. after four years we're still trying to find space to put everything my daughter and two grandaughters brought with them when my daughter's marriage ended. i intend to claim back my hall so it looks welcoming again. and maybe freshen up the paintwork as well.

"my hall is tiny! it has the stairs running from it plus three doors."
That's what ours is like, Lupatria.
There's a cupboard with the gas meters etc where we hang our coats and put outdoor shoes. No room for anything else.

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I live in a bungalow so there are many doors. I just counted and there are ten! My hallway also has remained neglected for twenty five years at least. The big black mat is one of those water absorbing ones to protect the rest of the house from twelve doggy paws. The mats only come in black. I got the incredibly long runner to stop children and dogs from slipping on the shiny oak floor. I keep promising at least to refresh the white emulsion and paint over the border as I do that but the years still roll by... I could have made a start this morning. I'm not doing anything else... (Bone Idle and Procrastination are my middle names!)

NanaandGrampy, that Dulux light reflecting paint is really good, I've used it in a couple of rooms as large trees cast shade on some windows. My son-in-law ( a talented artist ) was so impressed he decorated his whole 1950's house with the white one. WOW!

A mess

I realise the boots, shoes and slippers scattered in front of the shoe baskets in the hall cannot be seen in the photo I posted???

We don't even have a hall as such. In our old cottage everyone used the back door, which opens onto a small lobby with 5 doors off it. Just room for old chest of drawers housing shoes, with cat bed on top.

PECS I like your style.

DD has just moved house and now has a porch. The cottage she was in was a But&Ben opening straight into the kitchen/living room with nowhere to put boots or buggy apart from the kichen floor.
She was so excited when she saw the new house!!

shysal love your cushions and lights.Where are they from please.

Very small and papered by the previous owner in horrible wall-paper meant to resemble a brick wall!

I shall paint it as soon as I can find money for paint.

Love your dresser coconut - wish I had the space - one day when I become a millionaire!

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I haven't got a hall! I live in a tiny thatched cottage and you come through the front door directly into the lounge which does have it's problems .... however .... when I moved in the kitchen was in a tiny galley between the lounge (no window, no fan or extraction!) and the stairs come at the far end. What sold me the property was a huge room at the back through the kitchen which was empty! Fairly large L - shaped room, so I put the kitchen in there .... so the original kitchen is like my hall and is decorated as such. To cover all the old kitchen walls, I had cupboards built down one side one for coats one for bedding, which also hides my printer (they both have sockets in from the original kitchen) and bookshelves down the other - it is dark and quirky, but am pleased with how it came out! I would love to have it white as it really wood brighten it up no end, but as I am disabled and can't do it myself, then once you have started down that route, the whole house would have to be done and that is way out of reach! The stag head was a white resin one that I have remodeled somewhat, the filing cabinet has had hairpin legs and new handles added as it looked pretty horrid, and the table top is something that I recently did with fabric as the top was manky but the military cabinet I loved ....

kitty I love your hall. Ours is dark with no windows (we like in an apartment) it’s painted light with a light carpet and with some warm lighting not too bad.

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It is dark but cosy and quirky, and the house really lends itself to Christmas, looks lovely with everything up, but didn't do much this year .... often do a Toy shop in my front window which the kids like to see going past.

No idea how to add more than 3 photos? Can anyone help with that?

I've got a big squarish hall; as you come through the front door the stairs go immediately up to the left, with a gorgeous round window to the front of the house, then turn through 90 degrees to continue up. There's a skylight which gives us lots of light. We have an old pine bureau under the stairs with the phone and a lamp, and on the wall to the right as you come in we have a long-ish high-backed storage bench for shoes (not that DH ever puts his in it ...). Alongside the bench is a very old - late 1930s - wooden-case television set with a big plant on top. This big hall and the round window were some of the reasons we fell in love with our house, even though it didn't tick any of the boxes for things we insisted we had to have. But it felt like home as soon as we stepped inside.

I can't help, but I hope you can, madeinYorkshire.
Your hall is splendid!

There are some lovely halls. I wish mine was, but I've never managed to make it homely.

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kittylester I absolutely adore yours!

Eeek - apologies for my awful spelling of the word wood above!

Happy new Year to all!

Thank you MissAdventure - Gulligranny yours sounds lovely too! Do wish I had more space, bu actually I suspect I would end up filling it with more 'stuff' as I have a tendency to hoard a little!

We are just considering getting rid of carpet in our hall as it gets so dirty and cleaning it has taken all the finish out of the carpet. Any ideas as to weather laminate flooring would be good. Solid wood seems so expensive?

I have a reasonably large hall which is the envy of the living room straight from the street that the Victorian cottages round here have. However, whilst I love the look of it, it’s cold despite a large radiator. I have to remember to keep the doors closed upstairs to try and keep some heat in. I’m seriously thinking of getting a heavy door curtain too. The previous owners had one up but I thought it would be unnecessary and took it down. Silly me!