My Hallway Remodel!...and other hallway ideas.

Here is my "spruced up" hallway. 

There are so many great ideas on how to beautify a hallway.

Everyone loves some board and batten. 

Recaptured Charm

I personally love Classy Clutter's stripped hallway. 

Classy Clutter

.....and a tasteful picture collage is always a good way to go!

Martha Stewart

When we moved in the hallway looked like this...

Pretty bleak huh? ...and the previous owners had four dogs. It didn't smell pretty.

With a little paint and trim it now looks like this...

Here is a list of our improvements:

1. We painted all the old doors and scrubbed/chipped the paint off all old hardware and door handles. The door handles were vintage, dating back to the 40's and I really liked them, and decided to keep them. 

2. We painted the ceiling. Ceiling tiles are not my fave thing, but it was most likely an asbestos ceiling and I didn't want to mess with it. Painting it actually made it look fairly decent. 

3. We added recessed lighting. The hallway used to have florescent lights. We hired a electrician to put in all of the recessed lighting in the house. It really did make it look more updated. 

4. I added some bling hardware to the push door. This push door had a shinny gold door handle....not my favorite thing. 

This is the new jewelry on the door. 

5.  I painted all the walls with a light blue paint. I had a hard time finding what I wanted and ended up mixing two different blue of paints together.

6.  I added some decor....

If you haven't seen the tutorial on this pantry door I turned into a picture frame, you can see my tutorial HERE. 

7. I added baseboard and quarter round.  I think this really accentuates the long lines of a hallway. 

8.  I also added faux trim. Well, the stuff on top is real, and there is a little bit of trim about 2 inches down, and the rest in between is painted. You can see my tutorial HERE. 

9. I'm not even sure what I was going to put for #9. Even though it's not in the right spot, I guess I'll talk about that wall of closets! It is ESSENTIAL.... because we don't have a garage.  I have my pantry, my camping stuff, my holiday decor and ....

my beloved sewing space in this closet wall. 

(These are pictures of my sewing space. To see more of it click HERE)

You can obviously hold a lot in one of these!

10.  We put in new flooring. That carpet had to go!

So that is it. 

Downstairs hallway complete! I think we painted the walls 4 yrs ago. Nothing like doing the details the last minute!

--Katie

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