My Long Dark Hallway Needed Some Lights.

I really like the looks of what you did to brighten your long-haul way. I have commented a while ago on your wonderful idea to brighten your hallway, but I wanted to mention what I did to mine. I have a front door at the end of our entryway hallway that leads to our exterior of our house. When the door is opened, which isn’t very often, it certainly brightens up the hallway. We will be buying a glass screen door to keep open to use with our security door. That will certainly brighten our hallway, but another thing that brightened it was to build a new wall and shelf in our plain mudroom with a bench.

The story goes that for two years, since we’ve lived in our new little home, but the mudroom has been very plain and unused, and I wanted to change that. I did my research on the Internet and found a picture of what I wanted it to look like, and taped it to the wall to provide a hint to my husband, what I wanted to do with that wall. For two years, my picture taped to the wall stayed there, until my birthday a year ago, my oldest son. Said he was going to build my mudroom for me for my birthday. I was overjoyed.

You can see how cute it turned out and it was very simple with the bench already being there. I have Shiplap on the back wall, a shelf above it, and a bit of trim and it was painted to match my already installed bench seat. it. My mudroom is at the far end of my long, dark hall, and there is no door to separate the hall from the mudroom. What a difference in brightness, it has made and everyone comments on it, and my grandkids have a place to put their shoes backpacks and hang their coats instead of throwing them on the floor like they used to do. It totally brighten the end of the hallway and I love it. Not to mention that I think about my sweet son who built this for me each time I walk by.

Excellent idea! Who knew!