Decorative stone in the hallway: features and methods of decoration

The decoration of the home today is made to pay special attention. And since the hallway creates the first impression, it is necessary to approach its design thoroughly. A special share of solidity can give the interior a decorative stone trim. The material of this article will tell about the nuances of the material, its varieties, pluses and minuses.

Under the decorative stone for facing the walls of the hallway, it is customary to mean various types of materials obtained industrially. They are united by the appearance: such a facing surface gives the impression of masonry. The name is not synonymous with a natural analogue: these are different products. This finish looks very status and spectacular.

They use extraordinary interior decoration both in a city apartment and in a country house or cottage. In this case, the material can be an instrument of emphasizing one of the walls of the hallway. Often they perform the decoration "torn stone", through which creates a special interior style.

Usually, all walls of the hallway are not faced with such a stone, since with an abundance of stone surfaces, the effect of visual weighting of the space is immediately created. In addition, a stone with its excess loses its expressiveness. For an appropriate aesthetic perception of the hallway interior, it has to be combined with plain plain walls without a pattern.Due to the wide range of variations, the buyer has the opportunity to choose the size, which avoids the wrong design.

One of the distinctive properties of this material is ability to imitate natural stone. An artificial analogue is lighter than natural, as well as cheaper, which makes it attractive to buyers.

Decorative stone has a lot of advantages. These include the following:

• it does not create a significant weight load, which is inherent in natural material;
• characterized by environmental friendliness, and therefore safe for the health of households;
• not afraid of mold, fungus, does not rust and does not decompose during use;
• differs in acceptable cost in comparison with the natural analogue;
• distinguished by a significant service life, a variety of shape and size;
• unpretentious to the type of base and gets along well with concrete, brick and wood;
• has a flat and smooth back, which greatly simplifies the lining;
• It looks beautiful due to its texture, can differ in color solutions;
• it is not burdensome in styling, although it is better for a specialist to perform it;
• it is not whimsical when choosing a contrast type of wall cladding, it is combined with concrete, plaster, wallpaper.

Composite material is characterized by a wide range of design capabilities.. A stone is also good because it can be used to create certain decorative elements. It can be a miniature turret, a design in the form of a castle. With its help, you can accent and wall lamps located in the corridor. However, along with the advantages of artificial stone for decorating the hallway, there are several disadvantages. For instance:

• the stone loves light, which is why it is necessary to supplement the facing surface with its own backlight;
• when choosing a masonry design, a stone needs to take into account the visual techniques of a particular trimmed space;
• the material is not so easy to clean, and its individual varieties do not provide for it at all;
• some types of material are unstable to scratches, which is why when lining you have to choose light colors, on which the scuffs will be the least noticeable;
• not all artificial stone is suitable for facing the hallways of urban apartments with a small area;
• After manufacturing, the finishing stone needs to gain strength and lie down.

You can classify stone decoration according to several criteria (sizes, shapes, color). Craftsmen procure some types of material on their own (say, gypsum stone). Artificial stone can be made of different raw materials, which determines its quality and strength characteristics, as well as the lifetime. It can be gypsum, concrete, clinker or agglomerate and porcelain. Each type has its own characteristics.

Gypsum is easier than other analogs in work, weighs less, has a rich choice of design, because of which it is not difficult to choose for the interior of the rooms of many stylistics. It is also convenient in that it can be glued to a drywall base.

Concrete stone is made of sand, cement, as well as coloring pigments. Such a stone is quite strong and durable, it is completely inert to moisture and mechanical damage. Today, its color can be the most diverse, like gypsum stone. However, if gypsum is easy to process, concrete is difficult to trim. The disadvantage of the finish is more weight.

Brick tile, which is made of clay, looks like bricks, but its width is much smaller. Due to this, the clinker is optimally light. It is made from a mixture of marble and granite chips with limestone, sand and dyes. Unlike another stone, its front part is quite factual, as a result of which two neighboring stones do not always coincide in thickness. The agglomerate looks super stylish.

Porcelain Tiles made from clay, feldspar, minerals and dyes. Outwardly, such a stone is similar to glass tile. Despite its strength, resistance to moisture and temperature extremes, it does not withstand abrasive cleaning of facing surfaces. It is prone to scratching, which may result from cleaning.

Known in industrial circles and the so-called flexible stone. In fact, this is a thin layer of sandstone with a characteristic pattern. This is an alternative stone wallpaper 1 mm thick, which is created at the place of extraction by transferring to the material with acrylic glue, implying drying. With these wallpapers you can paste over different surfaces, including arched forms and columns.

The shape of the material may vary. Sometimes it tends to square, often rectangular. In this case, the rectangles can be either traditional or very narrow. Laying can be complicated by the fact that it requires the selection of each element.

Design solutions for the front surface of artificial stone can be very diverse. In search of fresh ideas, along with already traditional options, manufacturers produce unusual types of cladding, focusing on its distinctive aesthetic qualities. For example, the brick form today has become a kind of classic. So that the interior of the hallway has a special atmosphere, the cladding is given an aged look (say, weathered, battered, crumbled).

However, traces of past eras can adorn material of other forms. The texture can be deliberately chipped, stylized, for example, as raw marble, granite and even quartz. No less catchy in the interior of the hallway can also look a design variant of the rubble type, in which the wall will seem to be decorated with stony rock fragments.

Someone will like it sawn stone, different from other analogues in texture without polishing the front side. Outwardly, it can resemble sandstone or limestone. This stone is distinguished by the sharpness of the edges. There are in the assortment of manufacturers and facing marble and granite.

Among other varieties can be noted option for a mosaic. With it, you can lay out on the walls of the hallway both abstract motifs and certain stone compositions. For example, it can be a silhouette of an animal, a simple landscape, a pixel composition, or even a portrait of a person.

As for the type of cladding, much depends not only on the type of stone and the preferences of the owners of the house. The visual effect also matters, which will depend on the type of layout and the shape of the hallway itself. Interior decoration can be different:

• you can choose porcelain tiles with the texture of expensive marble, mosaics and even parquet as the basis for the design;
• someone will like the pebble texture - a practical and stylish solution that will decorate the interior of the corridor;
• the floor at the entrance can be laid out with chopped stone, laying it on a concrete base;
• can be used in the interior of a combination of stone on the walls and floor, which will improve the aesthetic perception of the interior of the corridor;
• relief laying can be combined with painting, wood or bamboo wall panels.

As for the combination with wallpaper, here the owners of the home have great opportunities. In addition to traditional roll options, the stone looks great in contrast to the so-called liquid wallpaper, which is spread on the walls with a spatula, like plaster. Among the traditional panels can be distinguished non-woven, as well as glass. The latter not only look good with the stone and contribute to increasing its expressiveness, but also differ in practicality, because at will they can be repainted repeatedly.

Combined with stone walls and murals, if you choose the right subject image, as well as the material of the panels. So that the colors are harmonious, need to consider the game colors.

Of great importance in the selection of decorative facing stone is the stylistic decision of the interior of the entire apartment. The stone will look harmoniously in the design if it becomes its accent, a highlight that hints at a craving for a certain interior style. On the one hand, it seems universal, but if you carefully study the resources of a particular style, then entering it into the desired one will not be difficult.

For example, if you want to create a special atmosphere in the interior of a style apartment high tech, it is necessary to choose a lining with a smooth texture that gives shine. Let's say it can be a finish that imitates a marble, slate, granite texture.

The color solutions of stone cladding will greatly help in the selection of a particular design. Today, a stone can be neutral (white, gray, black), brownish, with a characteristic pattern (for example, marble stains), consisting of a combination of several tones of the color palette. For a rustic style (country), you can use the lining of the tone of the earth, reddish ocher. Provence, on the contrary, needs whitewashed wall decorations. In view of this, it is better to lay out an accent stone on the walls in cool beige, pale pistachio, whitened-turquoise. Concerning medieval color here it is necessary to rely on the grayish tones of the stone - from light to dark.

Imitation of old age and some shabbyness can decorate the interior of the hallway style loft or grunge. On the floor of the style corridor, minimalism is quite enough porcelain tiles with a simple texture without unnecessary decor. You can decorate the doorways of vintage design directions "Torn stone."

In the dark, the finish can get lost, become ugly, which will badly affect the aesthetics of the hallway interior and can ruin the overall impression of the home. Depending on the needs of the style, you can highlight the accent parts of the walls with lighting devices in cold or warm colors of the light flux. Light can be either soft golden or cool white. Its use will provide the necessary play of shadows.

To illuminate the stone, you can use different lighting devices. For example, it can be floor lamps, wall sconces, ceiling spotlights, as well as spots, characterized by the ability to control the angle of the light flux. Someone prefers to highlight the stone on the walls with a flexible LED strip. In general, the design of the interior decoration should look harmonious, taking into account the choice of a stylistic solution.

Wherein fixtures must accurately convey the desired atmosphere. For example, a hallway with a stone wall finish, made in a modern style, can be highlighted with modern design lamps.

Sometimes to create the desired atmosphere in the interior of the hallway use unusual lighting devices. For example, it can be models with the design of kerosene lamps, or even torches. As for the decoration of stone walls, in addition to lamps, you can decorate the finished display both with photographs in concise frames and reproductions of paintings by famous artists. Someone fittingly hooks for clothes into the design, others decorate the walls with thematic panels, suitable for the style of the interior of the hallway.

Look beautiful on stone walls under a brick or clinker clock. Moreover, they can even be a frame with a dial. If the stone was used to accentuate niches, then they are usually complemented by LED backlighting. Less often, shelves are mounted on walls with stone trim. Despite the fact that mounting on such a surface is not so simple, the shelves in such an interior look very expressive.

The options for interior decoration of the walls of the corridor with artificial stone can be different. Decorative stone in the hallway can be laid out on the wall at the entrance, as well as partially on two adjacent walls. It can occupy half the wall, located not only standardly, but also diagonally. Depending on the area of ​​the corridor, it can be a decoration of only one section or have support on any of the walls.

We suggest you turn to examples of photo galleries that clearly show the possibilities of decorative stone to improve the aesthetics of the hallway interior.

• Accenting the wall at the front door using wall lighting.

• An example of cladding on one wall with support made of stone in the design of niches.

• Volumetric type pixel design to accent the hallway wall.

• The use of clinker in the interior of the hallway of a modern style.

• The selection of the front door and the walls near it with a stone in a torn layout technique.

• A stone with a smooth and shiny texture in the design of a modern entrance hall.

• Light stone against a contrasting cladding of adjacent walls.

• Stone accentuation of a zone with a large mirror and a light cabinet.

• An example of a creative neighborhood decoration in the form of a brick wall and a shelf of unusual design.

• Volumetric textured finish with vertical placement of wall lights.

See the master class on facing the hallway with decorative stone.