Country style: hallway ideas

A hall needs to provide instant, organised storage for all the things you discard as soon as you walk through the front door - coats, umbrellas, boots and keys. In the hallway shown here, a deep space under the stairs has been boxed in with tongue-and-groove panelling.

Woodwork in Slipper Satin estate eggshell, £42.50/2.5 litres, Farrow & Ball. Vintage trug, £48, The Old Cinema. Quilt, £125, Love It Want It Buy It. Antique cupboard, from £5,500, Appley Hoare Antiques. Floral top, £35, Cath Kidston.

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