How to make a narrow hallway look wider – 24 ways to visually expand your entryway with paint, colour and storage choices

A white hallway with a grey staircase at the end and a rattan pendant lampshade.

Narrow hallways are a tricky area to tackle and get right in most homes. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible or that you can’t succeed in expanding it a little bit, at least visually. On the contrary! Not to mention we love a tricky challenge. That’s exactly why we thought long and hard about how to make a narrow hallway look wider than it really is.

And these 24 narrow hallway ideas are what we and our interior and decorating experts came up with. From clever hallway paint ideas to the best storage solutions for narrow entryways, we cover all of that and more.