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What do I do with the second floor hallway? There's just a little, narrow space (8') once you reach the top of the stairs. It leads to the DC's room. A bathroom sits to the right of their door. If you turn at the landing, the hallway follows the opening of the stairs to the master bedroom (15'). The path is only wide enough for a single person to walk. A skylight sits above the stairwell.

Right now, I have nothing hanging in the skylight. There are two black and white art pieces hanging along the part of the hall that leads to the master, and a large chalkboard on the wall just outside the children's room.

There is zero flow. It's very cold and uninteresting. The wall color is an off-white-ish and runs throughout the house. I'm not opposed to adding paint color, but as it's a traditional D.C. house, I don't know where the paint would end. Would I create a line where the stairs begin or follow it all the way down the stairs to the front door? I'd rather find a way around painting actually.

How can I warm the space up and bring it closer to my bohemian ideal? I thought about a big mirror high up near the skylight. Or, bird cages or something equally eccentric hanging from the ceiling space. Could I put shelves up that would sit above the stairs, across from the path leading to the master bedroom? Would new light fixtures accomplish enough?

I'm tempted to create a wall of framed photos but am worried about how annoying it will be to slip past them in such a narrow space.

Sorry if my description fails to give a solid sense of the area. Chances are, if you live in a D.C. townhouse, you have the same. It's a small house and this hall feels like a missed opportunity.

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