Hallway Inspiration

What does your hallway look like? Right now, ours is a looking completely OCD: same natural wood gallery frames with a white mat, spaced about 3 inches apart, displaying a sixteen-piece print series (eight on each wall)...

[ Photos via Fantastic Voyeur's Flickr and David Netto Design ]

Lately, we've been fighting the urge to take it all down and start fresh (like this photo from David Netto's past commission on the right) and create a mix of sizes and frames, or at maybe paint just the hallway an unusual color that we'd normally pass up for a room (like the green hallway on the left side leading to a white and light blue kitchen). Got a photo of your hallway? Share your links and tips in the comments!

Comments (9)

I call our hallway "the travel section," because I hung artwork of places I've traveled to: New Orleans, Charleston, Key West, Miami. In my previous home, it was "The Hallway of Babies," because I had a lot of Bessie Pease Guttman prints, but the infants are chilling in storage right now.

I always consider halls to be full of unused space : if I had one it would be lined with bookshleves, and if it was large enough, even cupboards and armchairs.

My hallway is full of doorways. 7 to be exact (5 rooms converge at the center of the house plus 2 linen closets)... so the available wall space is limited. I have one wall with the old-fashioned telephone cubby. That wall is home to our big clock. Other than that, there's no room for art. Though, I love all the hallways in the photos.... I wish I had a nice "gallery hallway"...

Hi. Just thought you should know that photo on the left is of Alicia Paulson's hallway. www.aliciapaulson.com I think you should probably credit it properly, as I believe she is particular she is about her photographs being used without permission.

You can find it, and others, in her flickr set.

I thought we established on several prior occasions that your readers with actual, real OCD don't appreciate these types of offhand comments. Couldn't you just have said something like "excessively ordered" or "too symmetrical"?

my hallway is pretty plain: bookshelf, hung up family photos and that's about it!

I understand Griffin's comment because I myself suffer from OCD and it can be a very immobilizing illness and it does bother me when friends or family members loosely say the term when they really have no clue what it means to a person like me or others who knows the pain it can cause in your life.

If AT does not stop using OCD, a real, painful mental disorder, as some kind of cute little quirky thing to mention you have, I'm thinking I may need to start a boycott or something. People have spoken up in at least a half dozen threads using OCD in this cruel way, and yet it continues. I'm getting absolutely disgusted. Remove this from this post, please, at once.

I'm really disturbed that Apartment Therapy doesn't seem to care one whit about insulting people with mental disorders.