Best of 2025: Hallways
In the last week of the year, it is time to look back at the finest interiors and outdoor spaces published on The Nordroom in 2025. Today, I will share the best hallways of 2025.
This year, The Nordroom has posted a record number of home tours, design news, and home styling articles. In this Best of 2025 series, I will share the finest rooms, gardens, and architecture of the past year.
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The entrance hall sets the tone for this luxurious Stockholm apartment. Built-in cabinets with bench seating have been added for storage, and the checkerboard marble tile floor pairs beautifully with the chevron parquet that you find in the rest of the apartment.
The boot room in a North Downs home is a beautiful space with plenty of storage for coats, shoes, dog beds, and other items. The cabinets and tongue-and-groove paneled walls are painted in a rich burgundy shade and paired with a classic marble checkerboard floor.
The boot room in a vibrant Regency townhouse features wall paneling and built-in storage painted in a forest green shade, paired with orange shelves and “The Enchanted Woodland” wallpaper by Mind the Gap.
The hall in a renovated family home features a blue staircase and a colorful, patterned curtain in front of the front door.
The hall in a well-preserved 1930s apartment is divided into two areas. The inner hall features a custom-built floor-to-ceiling storage system with cabinets and drawers painted in a soft yellow shade. The other walls are decorated with the 1940s wallpaper “Cloverleaf” from Svenskt Tenn.
The forest-green painted hall in a colorful Stockholm apartment is decorated with IKEA IVAR cabinets and a wall-mounted oak cabinet, along with wall art and a large round mirror.
The hallway in a London home with Moroccan-inspired designs is painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Blue Ground’, paired with black-and-white floor tiles, hand-painted paneling, doors, and ceiling by artist Natasha Mann.
A wide black-painted front with stained-glass windows opens into the front hall, with hexagonal terracotta floor tiles, pink wall paneling, and a dusty-pink glass-paneled door in a colorful, eclectic Victorian mansion apartment.
The hall in a Swedish villa overlooking Lake Mälaren is decorated with William Morris’ “Willow Bough” wallpaper and a built-in wardrobe and shoe cabinet painted in a green hue similar to the one used in the wallpaper.
The soft color tones in this hall in a cheerful Stockholm apartment make the pure wooden doors stand out beautifully.
The hall in a colorful Stockholm apartment features a soft blue shade on the walls, a large mirror that makes it look bigger, and a burgundy shade in the doorway.
The long hall in a luxurious Stockholm apartment features a classic herringbone parquet floor, high ceilings, and built-in wardrobes that, closest to the front door, convert into a seating bench with terracotta upholstery.
This entryway, designed by C2 Paint, is painted in one of their trending shades for 2026, Parador.
The narrow hall in a Victorian home is a cheerful entry, featuring a sorbet pink shade on the walls, paired with star tiles by Bert & May. The staircase is painted in the same pink shade as the wall, paired with a sisal runner.
A charming checkerboard floor lies by the front door. Clever shoe storage is fitted against the wall to take up as little space as possible in this clever hall in a Swedish apartment.
The owners of this Stockholm apartment made full use of the available space by adding bookshelves and adorning the gray walls with art. The black-and-white marble checkerboard floor adds a classic tone to the entryway.
The hall storage in a spectacular Stockholm penthouse apartment is painted in a warm yellow shade and varnished by hand. The site-built cabinets and coat storage provide plenty of storage space.
This small entryway features pink built-in cabinets around the front door, using a combination of open and closed cabinets for shoes, coats, smaller items, and even books. To maximize storage space, they also included cabinets above the front door.
A classic hall in a 19th-century apartment, featuring built-in storage, a bench with a limestone top, and a red-and-white checkerboard floor.
This hall and staircase are the stars of this Georgian house. The beautiful cantilevered stone staircase wraps around three of the hall’s walls, which have been painted in a pea-green shade called ‘Saxon Green‘ by Farrow and Ball.
The hall in a former Swedish church is decorated with blue William Morris wallpaper, and the niche is fitted with built-in wardrobes, painted blue.
The hallway in a 1890s apartment, with a herringbone parquet floor, is decorated with the William Morris Willow wallpaper in blue colors. The entry is fitted with a custom wardrobe and a shoe storage bench to keep it tidy.
In a Swedish cottage, the spacious hall is decorated with plants, bringing the outdoors in. The wooden floorboards are painted in a red-and-white checkerboard pattern, paired with a soft butter-yellow hue on the woodwork. The space under the stairs is used for storage, hidden by a flowing curtain.
Paint company Glidden chose ‘Warm Mahogany’ as its Color of the Year 2026. They painted this bootroom in their trending color, featuring a classic checkerboard marble floor and white tongue-and-groove paneling.
The hallway in a midcentury apartment is a beautiful combination of lilac and butter-yellow. The wooden floors give the space character, and there is plenty of storage with wall hooks, a bench, and IKEA Ivar cabinets.
This hall in a Swedish apartment is designed in two parts. By the front door, beautiful Victorian-style tiles from Byggfabriken lie on the floor, and two large wardrobes offer plenty of storage space. Further down the hall are smaller wall-mounted cabinets with stone tops and a charming gallery wall hanging above.
This narrow hallway in a cozy Swedish apartment features plenty of storage, including a built-in wardrobe and a bench with drawers. The storage and tongue-and-groove paneling are painted in a deep blue shade, which is paired with the original wooden floorboards.
The hall in a small Stockholm apartment features beautiful wooden floorboards and green-painted joinery.
The first-floor hall in a Swedish 1920s family home features a beautiful hand-painted ceiling that is said to have been painted by Evert Taube.
Dark red and a fresher pink tone are paired in this hallway for a warm, deep, and rich look. It even includes a small home office space.
This medieval English country house features two magnificent hall spaces. The central, galleried entrance hall is a dramatic, triple-height space with a soaring open-timber roof. The floor is tiled with pamment bricks, and a large open fireplace with a substantial bressummer (support beam) creates a warm focal point.
The second hall, in the modern glass-fronted extension, features an oak-beamed open-pitch structure that echoes the design of the original cross hall in the main house.
