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 | | | | Room: | | Hallway/Stairs | | | | Colours: | | Green; | | | | Style: | | Minimal; Period Style; Traditional; | | | | Budget: | | High | | | | Programme: | | Home Front | | | | Designer: | | Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen; | | | | Feature: | | Perspex art work | |
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The stairwell forms the backbone of a house and dictates the personality of the building. It is a psychologically important area, which links all the different areas in the house.
Divide your area into different zones. For example, the ground floor hall way can be seen as your public space, the middle floor as your social space and the top stairs and landing as your private space.
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| | Sleek staircase
Replace the spindles in your staircase with sleek modern ones. Bring your own funky design into your house by commissioning a wood turner. Paint the spindles silver and cover the banister handrail in black rubber. | | 
| | Black and white stairs
Use a hard-wearing wood effect flooring for the stairwell and landing. To create a dramatic look, use alternate white and black strips, which will draw the eye up the stairs. | | 
| | Textured walls
For a contemporary feel, use a textured wall covering. Hang the line textured paper horizontally instead of vertically as this will contrast with the existing verticals in the room. | | 
| | Mint green walls
Paint the walls a bright, minty green. Start with a dark shade at the bottom of the staircase and gradually lighten the shade as you move upwards. Carefully blend each shade change to give the feeling of a seamless progression upwards. | | 
| | Ground floor luxury
For a touch of luxury, cover the ground floor hallway with black granite floor tiles. To add to this grandeur, why not hide your old radiator behind an ornate radiator cover, or splash out on a granite effect designer domestic radiator. | | 
| | Lines of lights
Add to the strong lines in this design by attaching lights to wires. If possible, suspend lights down through the centre of the banisters from the top floor right down to the bottom. This seamless lighting adds cohesion to the design. | | 
| | Green-light artwork
For a contemporary feel, create this Perspex light artwork. Engrave a design onto a piece of Perspex. Then, pass a fluorescent light through the Perspex. The engraving creates a barrier in the light and creates a 3D obstruction effect. | | |
| |  | | Top Tip | | |
To make hall stairs seem bigger, use simple horizontal bands of colour. Broad bands of emulsion on the wall create an optical illusion that makes spaces feel squatter and wider. Vertical stripes obviously do the opposite. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. | | |
Never use different thicknesses of flooring on stairways. Your unconscious mind marks out stair heights and if they are not constant you will trip and fall. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. | |  | |  | |
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