03/09/2026
Most people budget for the rooms. Nobody budgets for the hallway.
Then they walk through the finished space and it feels like a tunnel. Narrow, dark, purely functional, a bit you rush through to get to the rooms that actually matter.
Here’s what I keep seeing on plans. The difference between a hallway that feels like dead space and one that feels like part of the home usually comes down to 200 to 300mm. That’s it.
Enough width to add a console or bench. Enough to let light move through. Enough for it to read as a space you’d actually want to be in, not just a corridor.
It rarely shows up as a line item anyone flags early. Which is exactly why it gets missed.