A 1918 Apartment’s Plain Hallway Got a Pink and Green Glow-Up
A hallway is often visitors’ first taste of an apartment or home — and, depending on layout, it can stretch across the whole home and take up more square footage than you might think. Because of that, giving your hallway a little design love isn’t a bad idea; it can help your whole home feel more cohesive.
DIYer Abby Starobin (@symphonylanedesign) turned her dingy old-school apartment’s hallway into a colorful, DIY-filled welcoming space, which sets the tone for the rest of her place.
The hallway has a mint and pink color palette.
Like her peachy-colored bathroom, adding a playful pastel color palette to the apartment hallway was key to giving it fresh life. Abby opted to paint the hallway’s doorframes a minty green using DecoArt’s chalky finish paint in the shade Refreshing.
For the hallway wall, she chose a bright pink and white wallpaper featuring a toile pattern. (As Glinda from Wicked puts it, “Pink goes good with green”!)
The hallway is accessory-filled.
After adding accents like mirrors, framed prints, and even hooks to squeeze in some extra storage, Abby tied the hallway together with a neutral-but-still-playful runner from Urban Outfitters. “This corridor is the main walkway to my apartment and gets the most traffic, which I had to consider when picking a rug,” she says. “I went with a jute scalloped runner.”
Now Abby can look forward to welcoming viewers into her hallway. It mixes vintage charm with eclectic, inviting color and playfulness that’s uniquely her.