Two images have been combined into one image. On the left, a before photo of a hallway entryway to an apartment. An open white door in a white hallway leads to another white door and brown tile floor. On the right, a woman holds a small black dog who is looking at the camera. The woman is smiling and looking at a photo on the wall of a redecorated hallway with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design featuring wallpaper with a garden scene on both the walls and the ceiling.
Tiffany stands in the new entryway in her home and looks at the camera smiling. She is wearing a mauve blouse tucked into blue jeans and tan sandles. The design on the wallpaper has a cream background and two small dark tan repeating stripes. To the front left is a small white table with a tall green plant in a white vase, a tan vase and a large rectangular mirror balanced against the wall and two large grass baskets underneath the table. Behind Tiffanie is a banquette with three tall brown chairs with black wire bottoms, a cream carpet over dark brown wooden floors and a white door leading outside.
Two images have been combined into one image. On the left, a before photo of a hallway entryway to an apartment. An open white door in a white hallway leads to another white door and brown tile floor. On the right, a woman holds a small black dog who is looking at the camera. The woman is smiling and looking at a photo on the wall of a redecorated hallway with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design featuring wallpaper with a garden scene on both the walls and the ceiling.
Tiffany stands in the new entryway in her home and looks at the camera smiling. She is wearing a mauve blouse tucked into blue jeans and tan sandles. The design on the wallpaper has a cream background and two small dark tan repeating stripes. To the front left is a small white table with a tall green plant in a white vase, a tan vase and a large rectangular mirror balanced against the wall and two large grass baskets underneath the table. Behind Tiffanie is a banquette with three tall brown chairs with black wire bottoms, a cream carpet over dark brown wooden floors and a white door leading outside.

Featured wallpaper: Sweet Old Days by smokeinthewoods.
Featured upholstery fabric: Checkerboard Vintage Pink by camilaprints.

*Updated September 2025

When you think of wallpaper, you may immediately think of big spaces like bedrooms or living rooms. Don’t forget that hallways and entryways need some love, too! Whether you’re looking for your first interior design project to tackle or aiming for a relatively small project with a big impact, redoing your entryway or hallways can add a pop of personality to your home. Keep reading to see how to transform your hallways so they reflect your home’s story, all in the words of three design pros. Hint: hallway wallpaper is totally in!

A man is installing wallpaper with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design on the walls of hallway.

The Brownstone Boys

Do you have an interior hallway that natural light can’t reach? These spaces can seem dark but are actually great opportunities for some creative design. 

Jordan and Barry of the Brownstone Boys wanted to brighten up the front entry of their apartment for their tenant (and very good friend) Kimberly. They used Spoonflower’s Peel and Stick wallpaper, which applied easily and is free from VOCs. The biggest bonus is that it’s renter friendly. There is no messy paste or glue. You just peel and stick! This is great because they plan to change her entryway door next.

For Kimberly’s hallway wallpaper, they chose the pattern Hand Painted Watercolor Chinoiserie – Blue by pattern_garden because they loved how the blue color really pops in the space but still fits in to their historical home. It also reminds Kimberly of her family in Taiwan, so they wanted her to always think of home when she walks in!

Close up of a small black table with a round soft white lamp to the left in a redecorated hallway with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design featuring wallpaper with a garden scene on both the walls. A small plant in a terracotta planter and a pink candle in a black stand are also on the table and a abstract black, white and brown painting is leaning against the wall.
Image of the flooring of a hallway with a light tan wooden floor and a blue-and-white carpet runner.
Image of a redecorated hallway with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design featuring wallpaper with a garden scene on both the walls. A mirror with a rounded top has been placed to the right side of the entrance to the hallway along with a plant and a small light blue stool.
A man is installing wallpaper with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design on the walls of hallway.
Close up of a small black table with a round soft white lamp to the left in a redecorated hallway with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design featuring wallpaper with a garden scene on both the walls. A small plant in a terracotta planter and a pink candle in a black stand are also on the table and a abstract black, white and brown painting is leaning against the wall.
Image of the flooring of a hallway with a light tan wooden floor and a blue-and-white carpet runner.
Image of a redecorated hallway with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design featuring wallpaper with a garden scene on both the walls. A mirror with a rounded top has been placed to the right side of the entrance to the hallway along with a plant and a small light blue stool.
A man is installing wallpaper with a blue-and-white chinoiserie design on the walls of hallway.

More tips to brighten your hallways that get little natural light

  • Keep your floors light – if you can, avoid dark flooring in favor of a light hardwood like a maple. If changing your flooring isn’t an option, add a brightly colored runner down the hallway.
  • Create points of interest – add wallpaper to both sides or only one side for accent wall. Want to go bold? Add it to the ceiling! Choose from the World’s Largest Design Library or create your own wallpaper design.
  • Make a gallery wall – in spaces where the goal is to create the illusion of light, it’s important to choose bright and colorful art that can lighten up the space.
  • Add a mirror – not only will a mirror make the space feel bigger but it will also reflect light, which will help brighten up the space.
  • Layer your lighting – additions like sconces or table lamps will help bounce light around the hallway and keep the area from feeling dull and flat. Avoid any lighting that hangs down into the space as this can make hallways feel small.
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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the best colors for a hallway? 
As the Brownstone Boys suggest here, one thing you want to do is keep your floors light. If you can’t change your flooring, add a light-colored runner in the space. 
What is the best lighting for a hallway?
Add multiple sources of light, such as sconces, to move the light through the space.  
What helps bring light into a dark hallway? 
Adding multiple sources of lighting, a mirror, a cheerful gallery wall, adding light flooring or a light-colored runner are all things that can bring light into spaces where there is little.
What makes Spoonflower Peel and Stick Wallpaper renter-friendly?
Our Peel and Stick wallpaper is easy to a self-adhesive wallpaper that’s install and remove. It’s the perfect hallway wallpaper for temporary spaces. Check out other ways to use it here.

Spoonflower Artist Faye Guanipa

Faye’s side entryway before and after restyling
Featured wallpaper: Green and Mint Stripe 3″ by thehousethatlarsbuilt

Here’s what Faye Guanipa has to say about why it’s important to style your entryway.

From a design perspective, entryways are both a place of first impressions to guests and an immediate mood booster when you walk inside after a long day. On the practical side, they’re also great spaces to keep your going-out essentials stored, organized and ready for you as you walk out the door — a home for your shoes, coats, keys, etc.  

From a creative point of view, entryways tend to be relatively small spaces and thus less intimidating than a larger room. With redoing small rooms, she says you can go bold, take more risks and have fun as they’re less of a commitment and easier to change up if you need to. These aspects make styling an entryway a great first interior design project and highly satisfying as there are lots of easy ways to add visual impact.  

Faye’s front entryway before (left) and after (right). Featured products:
1) Hallway Wallpaper: Sweet Old Days by smokeinthewoods, Green and Mint Stripe 3″ by thehousethatlarsbuilt,
2) Fabric: Checkerboard Vintage Pink by camilaprints
3) Wall hanging: Wallhanging-Entryway by fayeguanipa_illustration

Pro Tip

When you create a mood board for a space, keep checking back with the board you created to make sure you’re not veering off too far from your original vision — this step helps keep the overall design cohesive! – Faye Guanipa

Faye’s tips for choosing a design

  • Collect what you’re drawn to – as an illustrator, she’s always been drawn to color. She started by collecting her favorite wallpaper and fabric designs in a collection on Spoonflower without thinking about anything except what she was immediately drawn to.  
  • Narrow down your collection – from there, she narrowed down her favorites starting with the wallpaper because that would be where your eye would go first.  
  • Live with your samples – it was a process of elimination from there, looking over hallway wallpaper samples, placing them next to each other, taping them on the wall in the space and living with it for a few days.  
  • Once you have winning designs, keep a sample on hand to help match accessories – she also made sure to have the main wallpaper with her whenever she was shopping around for accessories so she could look at the colors within it and get a feel for how they would look together. The room’s other elements came together once she knew her wall colors, wallpaper and fabric choices. 
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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I decorate a wall in my entryway?
Looking for a quick pop of color and personality? Our removable wallpaper types, Peel and Stick and Pre-Pasted, are renter friendly, easy to install and quick to change up. With over the World’s Largest Design Library and the option to print wallpaper featuring your own design, we’re sure to have just what you’re looking for.
What should I put in my entryway?
Entryways are places for showcasing your unique style and creating organizational zones for all the things you need to take when you head out. A great start to knowing what you should put in your entryway includes knowing how you plan to use it as well as what type of feeling you’d like it to evoke for visitors and yourself.
How do I make my entryway welcoming?
Having an area where guests and homedwellers alike can neatly and easily hang up their coats, leave their bags and belongings, take off and put on their shoes provides for an entryway that welcomes you into the space. Additionally, adding personal touches that further evoke your sense of style (which could look like calming neutrals or bold pops of color) while keeping texture, pattern and color in mind, can be a great start too.  

Pretty Real Blog

The entryway before the new grasscloth wallpaper glowup featuring gray walls, white trim and a black door. A rectangular mirror is placed lengthwise above a small white table with a wooden vase on it and grass baskets below.
A photo of Tiffany holding a swatch of grasscloth wallpaper down by her waist. Her hands, torso and legs are shown. She is wearing a mauve blouse tucked into blue jeans. The design on the wallpaper has a cream background and two small dark tan repeating stripes.
Tiffany stands in the new entryway in her home and looks at the camera smiling. She is wearing a mauve blouse tucked into blue jeans and tan sandles. The design on the wallpaper has a cream background and two small dark tan repeating stripes. To the front left is a small white table with a tall green plant in a white vase, a tan vase and a large rectangular mirror balanced against the wall and two large grass baskets underneath the table. Behind Tiffanie is a banquette with three tall brown chairs with black wire bottoms, a cream carpet over dark brown wooden floors and a white door leading outside.
The entryway before the new grasscloth wallpaper glowup featuring gray walls, white trim and a black door. A rectangular mirror is placed lengthwise above a small white table with a wooden vase on it and grass baskets below.
A photo of Tiffany holding a swatch of grasscloth wallpaper down by her waist. Her hands, torso and legs are shown. She is wearing a mauve blouse tucked into blue jeans. The design on the wallpaper has a cream background and two small dark tan repeating stripes.
Tiffany stands in the new entryway in her home and looks at the camera smiling. She is wearing a mauve blouse tucked into blue jeans and tan sandles. The design on the wallpaper has a cream background and two small dark tan repeating stripes. To the front left is a small white table with a tall green plant in a white vase, a tan vase and a large rectangular mirror balanced against the wall and two large grass baskets underneath the table. Behind Tiffanie is a banquette with three tall brown chairs with black wire bottoms, a cream carpet over dark brown wooden floors and a white door leading outside.

Even before Tiffany Delangie of Pretty Real Blog knew a single thing about design, she loved Grasscloth wallpaper. As someone who loves texture and bold design but is admittedly afraid of a lot of pattern, Grasscloth is the perfect choice for her. Add Spoonflower — a source she’s scoured and admired for years (she last used their wallpaper in her pantry project) — and it became a done deal! Her entry went from dark and boring to bold and beautiful, and she could not be more pleased. 

Tiffany’s reasons to choose Grasscloth

  • A classic choice – if you’re going to do something quasi-permanent, you want it to have staying power. Grasscloth does! Tiffany loves that you can take a classic paper like grasscloth, apply a pattern to it and you’ve got a fresh take on a classic design choice.
  • A stand out space – with Spoonflower’s Grasscloth, you get texture and pattern. It’s the best of both worlds. If you choose to eliminate the pattern, the texture alone is enough to elevate a space.
  • A variety of styles – Grasscloth lends itself to a variety of decor styles. Dreaming about the seaside? Choose something aquatic. In a boho mood? Try a geometric repeating pattern. She’s seen Grasscloth in a variety of applications and it never disappoints. It’s a special wall treatment that simultaneously feels both safe and daring.

A note about installation

If you’re a pro DIYer, you may be able to handle grasscloth, but professional installation is recommended. Make sure the person has worked with grasscloth before as its texture dictates careful treatment.

If you do go the DIY route, Tiffany’s installer recommended using delicate surface frog tape for double cutting — the process in which you overlap the paper and then cut through both layers at the same time to perfectly match the edges.

He also recommended Zinsser Shieldz Universal Wallcovering Primer, which isn’t too sticky to use with grasscloth. In addition, he said the paper is easier to remove when you use this type of primer. Tiffany’s entry took about 6 hours to install excluding primer dry time.

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Whether you choose Peel and Stick, Pre-Pasted, Grasscloth or any of our other quality wallpapers, hallway wallpaper is a sure fire way to bring life to a space can often be dull.

Have you used Spoonflower wallpaper to transform your entryway or hallway? Be sure to share your project with your world and ours by tagging @spoonflower on your social media. We live to see how you bring your creativity to life!

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