First impressions count! That goes for your home too. With a hard-wearing rug you can make the entrance area and hallway feel homely and welcoming.

Modern and traditional runner rugs

In principle, many kinds of rug work in a hallway. Designer rugs suit modern furnishings, Ziegler rugs go well with country-house style, for example, and Oriental rugs belong in more traditional interiors. Have a look at our selection of contemporary and classic runners, scatter rugs and gallery runners to find the perfect rug for your hallway.

The long scatter rugs and gallery runners are of course not just for the hallway — they work just as well in the bedroom or as a kitchen rug.

When choosing a rug for the hallway, size and durability are the decisive factors. The entrance hall gives visitors their first impression of a house or flat, whether it is a narrow corridor with an exquisite runner or a grand, generous hallway with a magnificent piece from a dowry. Hallways that link the individual rooms and are therefore complex in shape can usually take more than one rug. Rugs of differing pattern, colouring or size draw the eye to each separate area, while rugs that look alike can tie two or more sections of a space more closely together.

A narrow hallway looks wider with a striped runner without a border, and conversely a heavy, imposing hall can be given a more welcoming air by choosing a rug with a pronounced border and a central field of small, well-defined ornaments. If not enough bright daylight reaches the hallway, a dark rug will deepen the gloom and the pattern will look blurred. Artificial lighting is the remedy here, and a few ceiling spots bring the very same rug back to life.

Since the hallway is both entrance and thoroughfare, the rug has to be hard-wearing and easy to clean. Slit-weave pieces are unsuitable here, apart from particularly tightly woven examples. Stains and dirt show up least on densely woven, dark rugs with a small pattern. Because of the risk of slipping, an underlay is essential on tiles and wooden floors, and it also counteracts rapid wear. Even large rugs should be taken outside and beaten at least once a year, heavy though they are.