Hallways are the smallest rooms in most British houses and the hardest working. Everything passes through them twice a day. Coats, shoes, school bags, parcels and post all collect in a space that is often little more than a corridor with a front door at one end.
Furnishing that space properly makes a noticeable difference to how a home feels. The question that follows is usually about timing, because a hallway needs several small pieces rather than one large one. Below we explain how paying in stages works, what to expect, and how to plan a hallway that actually functions.
Paying in stages simply means the total is divided across more than one date. At checkout, PayPal Pay in 3 is available as a payment option provided by PayPal, which splits the amount into three payments. The furniture is dispatched as normal and the arrangement sits entirely with PayPal.
Weekly arrangements are a different product offered by other retailers, and we do not provide them. What we do offer is a straightforward split at checkout, and for most hallway purchases that is enough, because hallway pieces tend to be smaller than sofas or bedroom sets.
The advantage is flexibility rather than borrowing. You can order the shoe cabinet and the bench together instead of waiting a month between them, which means the hallway becomes usable sooner.
It is easy to focus on how often a payment arrives. The figure that decides whether the purchase was sensible is the total. When no interest is added, the total equals the price at checkout, so dividing it changes nothing except the dates in your calendar.
Be wary of any arrangement that stretches small amounts across a long period, because the length is usually where the cost hides. Three payments across a short window keeps the whole thing legible.
Most hallways fail for one of three reasons. There is nowhere to put shoes, nowhere to hang coats, or nowhere to set down a bag while you find your keys. Identify which of those is worst in your home and solve it first.
Shoes are usually the biggest offender, particularly in a family house where four pairs multiply into twelve by Friday. A closed cabinet is the difference between a tidy hall and a permanent obstacle course. The range of modern shoe storage cabinets UK sale includes slim tilting designs that project only around thirty centimetres from the wall, which suits a narrow corridor.
Take three measurements before you shop. The width of the wall you intend to use, the depth available, and the clear walkway that will remain once furniture is in place. Aim to keep around seventy centimetres of passage so two people can pass without turning sideways.
Check the door swing as well. A front door that opens inwards will claim a quarter circle of floor that cannot hold anything. Radiators, meter cupboards and the bottom of the stairs also eat into usable wall, and it is far better to discover that with a tape measure than on delivery day.
Height is your ally in a small hall. Tall narrow storage holds as much as a wide low unit while using a fraction of the floor. Wall hung coat racks free the ground entirely.
A functional entrance usually contains four elements. Somewhere for shoes, somewhere for coats, a surface for keys and post, and a mirror. Add seating if the space allows, because sitting to put boots on is a small comfort that gets used every single day.
A slim console handles the surface requirement and gives you a drawer for the small items that otherwise migrate to the kitchen. Browse the modern console tables UK sale range for depths that suit a corridor rather than a wide entrance hall.
For coats, a stand suits a hall with an awkward corner, while a wall rack suits a straight run of wall. Both keep jackets off the bannister, which instantly makes a hall look ordered.
Hallways rarely have windows of their own. They borrow light from the front door glass and from the rooms leading off them. That makes reflective surfaces genuinely useful rather than merely decorative.
A mirror opposite or beside the door doubles the perceived depth of the space and helps on the way out. Choose one that suits the proportion of the wall rather than the largest available, and look through the modern decorative mirrors UK sale selection for frames that echo your other finishes.
High gloss furniture behaves similarly, bouncing light back into the corridor. Pale walls with one darker element, perhaps the floor or a single piece of furniture, give a hall definition without closing it in.
If children use the hallway, put storage at a height they can reach. A low bench with baskets beneath it means bags land in a container rather than on the floor, and the habit sticks because it is easier than the alternative.
Dog owners need a hook for leads and somewhere for a towel on wet days. A bench with a wipeable seat earns its place in a British winter, and a small rug at the threshold catches the worst of the mud before it reaches the carpet.
Wear is concentrated in a hallway, so choose finishes that forgive scuffs. Wood effect and gloss both wipe clean easily, while pale fabric on a hallway bench will show its age faster than you expect.
If you are furnishing an entrance from scratch, a workable sequence is shoe storage first, then a surface, then a mirror, then seating. Each addition improves the space on its own, so you are never left with a half finished room waiting on the next delivery.
Coordinated sets are worth a look if you would rather solve everything at once and keep the finishes consistent. The hallway furniture sets UK sale collection groups matching pieces so the proportions already work together.
Hallway furniture is generally compact, which makes delivery simpler than it is for sofas or wardrobes. Even so, check the width of your front door and any turn at the bottom of the stairs. Flat packed items solve almost every access problem and assemble in under an hour with basic tools.
Clear the wall before the delivery arrives. It sounds obvious, yet the most common cause of a piece sitting boxed for a fortnight is that the space it was bought for still has something else in it.
Hallways in Britain fall into a few recognisable types, and each has its own answer. The long narrow corridor found in terraced houses suits shallow wall mounted storage and a slim console on one side only, with nothing on the opposite wall. Putting furniture on both sides of a corridor makes it feel like a passage rather than a room.
The small square entrance lobby common in nineteen thirties semis suits a tall narrow unit in one corner, leaving the rest clear for the door swing. Height is often the only direction you can build in that shape.
Open plan entrances in modern flats, where the front door opens straight into the living space, need furniture that defines a threshold. A console or a bench placed just inside creates a boundary between arriving and being at home, and a rug reinforces it.
Halls with stairs immediately inside the door are the most constrained. Use the wall opposite the stairs and keep pieces below waist height, since anything taller crowds the bannister.
Many British hallways have no natural light beyond the front door glass, and colour choices matter more in that condition than anywhere else in the house. Pale walls help, although pale furniture in a dark hall can look grey and flat rather than bright.
Contrast works better. Light walls with one darker or warmer piece give the eye something to settle on and make the space feel intentional. A walnut or dark oak console against soft white walls reads far better than everything in the same washed out tone.
Keep the number of finishes low. Two timber tones and one metal is plenty in a space this size, and repeating that metal across handles, hooks and a mirror frame ties everything together without effort.
A tray or bowl on the console for keys prevents the daily search. A hook at child height stops school coats reaching the floor. A boot tray under the bench contains wet footwear rather than letting it soak into the carpet, which matters between October and March.
A doormat inside as well as outside makes a real difference to how much dirt reaches the rest of the house. Leave one clear surface too, because a hallway with every horizontal space occupied has nowhere to put a parcel down, and that single free area is what keeps the room usable rather than merely furnished.
At Furniture in Fashion you can shop modern furniture for every room with free UK delivery, and a wide selection of hallway pieces is on sale throughout the year. PayPal Pay in 3 is available at checkout if you would prefer to split the total across three payments.
We do not. The option available at checkout is PayPal Pay in 3, which divides the total into three payments and is provided by PayPal.
Around seventy centimetres of walkway keeps a corridor comfortable. Measure the remaining passage rather than only the wall you intend to fill.
Closed shoe storage. It removes the clutter that makes a hall feel chaotic and it works from the first day.
Sets guarantee the finishes and proportions match. Buying separately gives you more control over depth and size, which helps in unusually narrow halls.
Most compact pieces can, although a tall unit is safer with two people for the final lift into position.
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