How to choose wallpaper for a narrow room or a long corridor?

A narrow room is considered by designers as a kind of challenge. They try to visually expand the bedroom, kitchen, hallway or resort to splitting the space by zoning. Sometimes, on the contrary, they enhance the perspective - they beat the length of the room and find a special charm in non-standard proportions.

Choosing wallpaper for a narrow room is a pleasure, as it is they who often become the main tool for adjusting proportions.

Volume and proportions in the power of color and graphics

How can you influence the perception of the interior with the help of special wall decoration techniques, and what wallpapers for a narrow room are of interest?

The following ways of decorating walls harmonize the space and make the interior memorable:

• Ceiling frieze decal.
• White ceiling, light floor and light wallpaper on the long walls. For short walls, wallpaper in dark or rich, bright colors is selected.
• Pasting long walls with panels with vertical or square panels.
• Dividing the room into zones and pasting them with different wallpapers from the same collection.
• Accent panels in full height of a long wall.

• Playing with graphic patterns - stripes, diagonals, rhombuses, lattices, dark or contrasting ornaments.
• Using photo wallpaper in a narrow room - the photo shows examples of pasting for a short and long wall.

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Color pushes the walls

White color makes the room more spacious, and it can and should be used. But for the design of a long and narrow kitchen or hallway, white alone is not enough. We are looking for additional expressive means in the design of the walls.

Light walls of cold shades seem distant, while dark or bright ones seem to be closer. Therefore, for long walls, wallpaper in a narrow room is selected very light and coldish - gray-blue is considered ideal. Pure gray color is in great fashion, it looks fresh, spectacular, but you need to be careful when choosing such wallpapers: you need to look for very, very light ones.

White wallpaper with sparsely scattered subtle graphic motifs is perhaps the best option for walls that have decided to “push back”.

Short walls are made in contrast: they need a juicy, dark or bright color that will “bring” the wall closer. Yes, this visually reduces the volume, but makes the room more compact and harmonious.

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Zoning with wallpaper

In order for the room to be closer to the square, you can not only try to “expand” the room, but also shorten the wall that is too long.

The living room often combines several areas, for example, a place of rest and a study, or a dining area and a “sofa”. Zoning successfully supports the carpet on the floor, carpet, podium. If so, then why not delimit the zones with the color of the walls in a narrow and long living room?

Random contrasts are unacceptable, but if you look closely at the wallpaper collections, you can find stunning decorative models that blend flawlessly with each other.

Asymmetric pasting is rarely successful - the advice of a professional is very useful here. For inspiration, study wonderful design projects: wallpaper for a narrow room in the photo contributes to creating the right atmosphere in the working and guest areas so much that there are no questions about the appropriateness of such color zoning.

Symmetrical zoning with collectible wallpaper in a narrow room in the photo is just great. To maintain symmetry, one pattern / color is used in the center and edges of long walls, and another between them. As a result, the two zones are brightly marked and each boasts pleasing proportions.

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Panel: divide the wall into three parts

You have already seen that it is not necessary to paste over the longest wall with one type of wallpaper. Let's take another interesting example.

If the sofa in the living room is placed along a long wall, then an accent panel “asks” directly above it - from floor to ceiling or a little smaller. Borders can be emphasized with molding. In order for the panel to attract attention, it requires a special decorative effect. Again, collection manufacturers will come to the rescue - in their catalogs you can pick up both basic and accent wallpapers in a narrow room (photo below).

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Illusion of no wall

Landscape photo wallpaper in a narrow room they can make a splash if they have a perspective. Edges can be hazy or out of focus, which will enhance the effect of presence. The wall does not just recede - it is lost in this haze. In any case, the gaze does not exactly rest on it, it slides further, into an indefinite distance.

Interestingly, murals on a short wall are also useful for a long, narrow room, but their choice and method of pasting is dictated by other considerations.

• The overall tone should be darker than the main color of the walls, or brighter.
• Macro photography is encouraged. The enlarged image is spectacular, attracts the eye, but the main secret lies elsewhere - large objects “approach” the viewer, which is required in this case.
• Photowall-paper pastes over the entire space "from wall to wall".
• A strong reception is when the photo wallpapers capture neighboring walls by 30-70 centimeters. The technique works well when the canvases depict some kind of romantic cityscape with a strong perspective.

An even stronger effect, up to the curvature of the walls, is created by photo wallpapers with geometric motifs that cause visual illusions. Are you ready for a strong sensation? Then try to repeat these projects.

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What wallpaper to choose for a narrow bedroom?

To begin with, we recall that coldish blue, gray, silver shades in alliance with white will make the bedroom lighter and more spacious. It is also worth looking closely at the turquoise, mint tones. Yellow and gold will brighten up the north room, but they are best used on the narrow side. Actually, all warm colors and dark versions of cold ones, as well as catchy ornaments and intricate plots, are suitable for short walls.

If the bedroom is dark, it will be illuminated by wallpaper with a mother-of-pearl tint. If, on the contrary, it is too sunny, then pay attention to matte velor textures.

Is your bed facing a narrow wall? Consider pasting the entire surface behind the back with the most decorative luxurious wallpaper. It is not expensive, for one simple reason: one premium roll is enough for a narrow wall. And the effect is absolutely amazing. And yes, beyond competition - dark, velor wallpaper for a narrow bedroom (as in the photo) with a picturesque pattern or lush ornament.

wallpaper in stripes in a narrow bedroom represent elegance, in addition, they are able to model the space. A wide white border under the ceiling not only completes the interior design, but also expands the ceiling, and therefore the entire bedroom.

In interiors in the spirit of Empire, vintage and shabby chic, it makes sense to use patterned and plain wallpapers, sticking them in the form of panels, with and without moldings.

It is undesirable to place a closet in a narrow bedroom against a short wall. It is wiser to replace it with a deep built-in wardrobe - the bedroom will naturally shorten. Mirrored doors will create an unnecessary perspective, they do not belong here. If the sliding doors are pasted over with wallpaper, repeating the pattern of the accent panel behind the bed, the result will be impressive. The price of the issue is another roll of designer wallpaper in a narrow bedroom.

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Transformation of a narrow kitchen

A kitchen 2 meters wide or less is a real disaster: wherever you turn, your eyes rest on the wall or kitchen furniture. Due to the specifics of the premises - saturation with equipment - it is necessary to solve the problem in a comprehensive manner.

A positive role is played by the rejection of wall cabinets in favor of open shelves. It is useful not to occupy a significant part of the wall with any hinged structures - fortunately, the length of the kitchen usually allows you to place everything you need.

When choosing wallpaper for a narrow kitchen, pay attention to the following points:

• Consider moisture resistant coatings.
• The shades are the lightest.
• A small dispersed pattern is welcome.
• In many design projects, light geometric motifs such as "snake" and "Scandinavian lattice" have already been used and have proven themselves well.
• If you use light narrow wallpaper for the edges of the walls, and paste over in the center with darker ones or with a pattern, this will hide the length and create a good perspective. By the way, the reverse ratio of dark / light is also applicable.

• Paste the wall above the apron with the same light wallpaper - and see how much more comfortable you feel. Provided that you refuse deaf facades of cabinets at least in the center of the wall.

See how dark and light wallpapers for a narrow kitchen transform the interior and model the space in the photos of completed projects.

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Is it possible to fix a narrow hallway?

It will not be possible to really improve its proportions with the help of design techniques, but making a cramped hallway stylish and cozy is a completely doable task. In wallpaper for a narrow hallway, it is not enough to use the play of light and dark shades of color. You need to find drawings with optical illusions and good options for photo wallpapers.

The best perspective is created by black and white photo wallpapers with a predominance of a light background. If you choose wallpaper for a narrow and long hallway, then it makes sense to give preference to large “canvases”: landscapes or something more avant-garde - for example, a view from a height of city rooftops.

A wide vertical stripe on the walls can be present in at least two versions - in a calmly noble smoky range, with contrast in midtones, and in aggressive bright colors - but here you have to rely on impeccable taste and, possibly, on neon colors, according to the principle: what is impossible change, then you need to decorate.

The best wallpaper for a dark narrow hallway is with inclusions of reflective particles. With point artificial lighting, such a wall, as it were, loses its solidity, becomes more airy, which is a big plus in tight spaces. Textures shimmering with glare are especially desirable for wallpaper in a narrow and short hallway.

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The charm of a long corridor

A narrow long corridor will seem like a gift to few people, but it opens up such interesting possibilities for decoration that if you implement ideas, you can turn it into a highlight, honestly. What, for example, can wallpaper do for a narrow corridor?

Wallpaper in a narrow and long corridor can be pasted in such a way that they create an enfilade - repetitive motifs that go into the distance. For this, two types of drawings are used, light and dark (preferably at least one plain). Pasting is done by imitating paneled panels. It is desirable to synchronize the rhythm with the doors leading to the corridor. If you emphasize the borders with a plinth, cornice, molding, then the effect will be maximum.

White color is essential if you need to choose wallpaper for a narrow and dark corridor (photo). Small and rare motifs on a white field expand the space more noticeably than pure white.

Wall mural for narrow core

a is a separate issue. In a straight and long one, resting against a blank end wall, you can even enhance the perspective, take your eyes off to infinity. Look: the photo wallpaper in the narrow corridor in the photo was pasted on the end wall and illuminated with a ceiling lamp. Bold and romantic!

You can also shorten the length if the wallpaper in the corridor is narrow and long to stick on a short wall and use a very large pattern on a dark background. Macro photography tends to visually approach the viewer.

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Wallpaper as a tool for transforming a narrow room

So, the proportions of the rooms can be adjusted with the help of wallpaper. We combine light and dark, with a velor texture and with reflective inclusions - and we get a slightly wider bedroom, a shorter corridor.

It is not necessary to get hung up on the idea of ​​improving proportions, you can simply buy decorative wallpapers that are light and pleasant and make the kitchen or living room visually more comfortable.

The most interesting effects are possible when the wallpaper distorts the space of a narrow room - it should be either successful photographic images or paintings with geometric illusions. Such experiments prove that narrow rooms are not a disadvantage, but a feature that pushes the designer to take off creatively.

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Photo gallery - wallpaper in a narrow room

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