From a single subtle fixture to a central row of inset lights, hallway lighting can take several different forms. Explore ideas for brightening stair landings, upstairs passages, kitchen hallways, and entryways while keeping narrow spaces open and visually uncluttered.
Farmhouse Hallway Recessed Lighting
Stained wood flooring runs through the entryway hallway, with white and gray vintage rugs laid over it. A console table sits against the wall in the hallway, made of light wood with black trim. Recessed lighting brightens the space.
Stained Wood Recessed Hallway
A white shelving unit with stained wood sits next to the hallway, in front of a white shiplap wall. A small wood tree, a white book, and a vase rest on the shelves. The hallway has recessed lighting and stained wood flooring.
Entry Hallway Runner and Recessed Lights
The runner rug has white and black coloring and lies in front of the console table. Recessed lighting illuminates the hallway where the rug is placed. Across from it, the console table is black, while the stairway has gray carpet and white spindles.
Recessed Hallway Stair Lighting
The light wood handrail rests above black spindles on the white stairs. A gray and black stair runner covers the steps, and a recessed hallway sits beside them.
Recessed Hallway Lighting with an Armoire
Tan runner rugs overlap in layers across the entryway floor. They sit under recessed hallway lighting and in front of a stained wood console table. An antique white and black armoire completes the arrangement.
Farmhouse Hallway Recessed Lights
Pine decor adorns the console table beside a white half wall with board and batten detailing. The farmhouse entry hallway is finished with a stained wood console table, while recessed lighting in the hallway illuminates the space.
Wood Barn Door Hall Lights
A vintage gray runner sits in the light gray hallway, where decorative molding adds detail. The wood barn door is mounted to a black metal track and fitted to the hallway. Recessed hallway lighting is also in the hall.
Double Door Recessed Hallway Lights
Across the room, open white glass double doors reveal a hallway with light wood flooring. Recessed hallway lighting illuminates a black two-toned console table beside a black interior door.
Hallway Console Table Recessed Lighting
A console table made from wood and black metal stands in the hallway. Recessed hallway lighting lights the table, with a vintage rug in front of it. Open white double doors with chrome handles reveal the hallway.
Dining Room White Recessed Hallway Lighting
Recessed lighting brightens the hallway leading to the dining room. The hall has stained wood flooring, and a black and white apron sits next to a white interior door.
Floral Wallpaper Hallway Lighting
A circular, frameless mirror is mounted on the wall opposite the white spindle railing. A dark-stained wood handrail tops the railing.
Recessed Lighting in a Narrow Hallway
In one corner, gray built-in shelves in the living room sit above white drawers. A black sconce hangs beneath the drawers. Next to the shelves, the hallway has a wood-and-black cabinet beneath a black-framed artwork, which is illuminated by recessed hallway lighting.
Loft Hallway Lighting
The glass partitions, set in a black grid, are in the upstairs loft. That loft has a stairway below it, and the stairway has a black horizontal railing. Recessed lighting in the hallway and a black and crystal chandelier illuminate it.
Hallway Gallery Wall Lighting
Beside the wood-framed gallery wall, a bench has a two-color stained wood finish. Black and brass wall lights hang above the bench and brighten the artwork, while recessed fixtures illuminate the nearby hallway.
Gray Hallway Lighting
Gray covers the hallway, where white decorative molding adds an accent. A wall with a black frame is mounted there as an art gallery wall, while black and gold sconces and white recessed lighting illuminate the space.
Simple Recessed Lights for Hallways
In the home’s entryway, a simple inset light with a circular shape provides hallway lighting. It is non-distracting and does not disrupt the entryway.
Recessed Upstairs Hallway Lighting
A stained wood handrail tops the horizontal black railing in the hallway. Across from the railing, the hallway has stained wood flooring and recessed lighting, and it leads toward a black door.
Recessed Stair Hallway Lighting
Recessed hallway lighting illuminates a black console table set against the wall. Nearby, beige-carpeted stairs rise to a gray hallway with white wainscoting, while white spindles support a black handrail.
Hallway Sconces and Recessed Lighting
The gray hallway has white beadboard wainscoting. It includes recessed lighting and black glass sconces, along with a railing made of black wrought iron fitted to the hallway and topped with a handrail of stained wood.
Recessed Hallway Gallery Wall
An eclectic gallery wall faces white interior doors in the hallway. A vintage white-and-gray runner lies on the gray wood flooring. Recessed lighting shines on the gallery wall.
Recessed Stair Hallway with Gray Carpet
Gray carpet covers the stairway. Its railing combines light wood with black metal. A hallway with recessed lighting stands beside the stairs, which rise toward artwork in a black frame.
Recessed Upstairs Hallway Lighting
Stained wood flooring runs through the hallway, and recessed lights illuminate it. In the upstairs hallway, a rustic bench made of light wood sits opposite a white railing topped with a wood handrail.
Board-and-Batten Entryway Walls
At the living-room entrance, a rustic wood bench holds a white decorative pillow. The entryway has two white walls with board-and-batten treatment, one on each side, including the side with the staircase.
Window-Pane Mirrors in a White Hallway
Two white chairs are in the loft. Three black-framed mirrors in a window-pane style face the loft from the white hallway, which also has recessed lighting. The loft also contains a display cabinet in black.
Black Accent Wall Gallery
A wood bench sits beneath the gallery. The gallery has black frames and is mounted on the black accent wall at the end of a hallway with light wood floors. Recessed lighting is set into the hallway ceiling.
White Doors in the Master Bedroom Hallway
Beige carpet covers the hallway floor, lit by white recessed lights in the ceiling. Across from each other in the master-bedroom hallway are a white interior door and a white door with shutters.
Six-Panel Kitchen Door
A black refrigerator is on the warm wood floor. The kitchen has white cabinets, a brown countertop, and two floating wood shelves above the countertop.
The off-white kitchen wall has a white door with 6 panels and black hardware. That door is mounted on the wall. In the hallway, two wood pantry doors have glass.
Gold and Glass Lantern Pendant
The stair landing has a black-framed window beside a staircase with white spindles and a light-stained wood handrail. Above the landing hangs a gold and glass pendant light in a lantern style.
Hallway Wainscoting and Inset Light
The hallway combines gray and white with board-and-batten walls. Matching white circular lights sit inset in the ceiling in a central row, illuminating the space. Matted photos hang on the hallway walls.
A Subtle Fixture in the Hallway
A white recessed light sits in the centers of wooden panels on the hallway ceiling. The source claim is that this lighting does not detract from the linear hallway design.
Recessed Lighting for a Two Level Living Room
White balusters mark the second story, with a handrail made of stained wood topping them. In the living room, a gray sectional sits in front of the passageway. Recessed hallway lighting is placed in that passageway, and the room extends across two stories.
Recessed Hallway Lighting with Black and White Window
Light wood flooring runs through the hallway, alongside a window with a black frame and white trim. At the hallway end, greenery sits in a black planter. A recessed hallway light illuminates the greenery.
Recessed Kitchen Hallway Lighting
Dark stained wood covers the kitchen hallway floor. White shaker cabinets face each other, with dark gray countertops set on their tops. Recessed lighting in the hallway ceiling illuminates the flooring.
