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September 13, 2026

Do New-Builds Have Hallways? Analysis of 500 UK Floor Plans

The hallway has not disappeared from British new build housing, but it has been compressed into the smallest space that will still perform its function, according to this 2026 analysis from Furniture in Fashion. Our report finds that the entrance hall survives because it buffers the front door, lands the staircase and protects the living space from direct entry, and that each of those jobs can be satisfied by a corridor rather than a room. Open plan ground floors have shortened halls further, because the route now serves only the stairs, a cloakroom and a single opening. We identify usable wall depth, not floor area, as the binding constraint, and show how inward opening front doors remove a significant arc of floor from service. The report pairs hall widths with realistic furniture depths and sets out practical guidance on shallow storage, vertical space and mirrors in narrow entrance spaces....

September 2, 2026

New Build Homes and Console Tables: The UK Space Squeeze Report

Console tables have become the default furniture of the British new build hallway for a structural reason: they are the only surface shallow enough to leave a walkway. Furniture in Fashion's 2026 space squeeze report works the problem backwards from circulation, recommending at least 70 cm of clear passage and showing why a 30 cm console fits a typical new build hall where a 45 cm sideboard does not. It notes that the Nationally Described Space Standard sets minimum floor areas and built in storage for new homes in England but says nothing about corridor width, which is why circulation absorbs whatever the rooms leave behind. The analysis also covers the front door swing conflict that catches buyers out, the visual case for open frame consoles that keep the floor line visible, and the second life of the console behind a floating sofa in open plan living rooms....

September 2, 2026

Moving Home and Wall Mirrors: The UK Relocation Furnishing Report

Wall mirrors are hung early in a new home and planned late, which is why so many end up reflecting a radiator instead of a window. Furniture in Fashion's 2026 relocation report argues that placement decides everything: the narrow hallway gains most because it is the darkest space in most UK homes, the wall opposite a window returns daylight into single aspect terraces and flats, and a blank end wall stops reading as a dead end once a mirror extends the sightline. The analysis sets hanging height by function rather than by centring the frame, with full length mirrors governed by the head line and console mirrors by a 15 cm to 20 cm gap above the surface. It also covers the two failures that ruin mirrors during a move, laying the pane flat and fixing heavy glass into plasterboard with the wrong anchor, and explains why leaning and strapping is a sound choice in rented homes....

August 27, 2026

The Hallway Price Index 2026

Hallway furniture is replaced sooner than furniture in any other room, and Furniture in Fashion has set out why. The reason is not wear. It is depth. A piece bought 10cm too deep for the passage does not become tolerable over time, it becomes the thing everybody bumps, and it is removed rather than lived with. That single error, repeated across British terraced and semi detached homes with halls of 90cm to 110cm, is the largest driver of what an entrance hall costs to furnish. This index sets out the decisions in order of influence: depth first, then whether the household can fix into walls at all, then how many separate pieces the hall really needs. We publish no figures, since no official UK source tracks furniture pricing and we do not use our own commercial data in editorial reporting. The rented property constraint, where drilling restrictions remove the shallowest solutions available, is examined in detail....

August 26, 2026

The Hallway Comfort Index 2026

Hallway comfort is a clearance question. Furniture in Fashion has assessed what makes an entrance hall in a British home work rather than irritate, and the finding is that a single measurement governs everything: the clear width left once furniture is in place. Below roughly 75cm two people cannot pass, and below 60cm a single person with shopping cannot pass comfortably at all. Because the average UK hallway in terraced and semi detached stock is narrow to begin with, that leaves very little depth for storage, which is why shallow furniture and wall mounted solutions outperform conventional pieces here. The index examines shoe storage, the item that causes most hallway congestion, along with coat provision, the seat that almost every household wants and few can accommodate, and the lighting and mirror decisions that make a confined space feel workable rather than merely passable. It also covers the front door arc, which rules out the best wall in most British homes....

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