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Our Hallway Is Done & It’s Magnetic!

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Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been working on a hallway makeover and after having everywhere plastered and about 30 hours of cleaning and painting it’s done!

When we first moved in it looked like this…

Edwardian Hallway Before

After a quick coat of white paint not long after moving in it turned into this…

Hallway In Progress

… and now (drumroll please) it’s transformed into this!

Edwardian Hallway - Cornforth White

We’re so pleased with how it turned out – no more Artex, no more yellow and chipped paint and no more peeling wallpaper!

Inevitably it’s taken a lot of work to get to this point. We completely stripped, sanded and repainted the front door and frame, we removed the laminate floor and sanded the original floorboards, we stripped, sanded and painted our skirting, we spent over 250 hours restoring our staircase.

Hallway Cornforth White

Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been taking the last few steps to get our hallway done and had the hallway replastered, painted everywhere and spent a bit too much time playing with our amazing new magnetic wall.

Hallway Cornforth White

Yep, you heard right – a magnetic wall!

Even though I took part in an event a while ago where I had a chance to try it out, I have to admit that I was sceptical about how well it would work in real life. Well, it turns out I shouldn’t have worried – it really does work!

Magnetic Plaster - Attaching A Picture Frame

All of our pictures and even the coat hooks aren’t screwed to the wall – they’re all just attached with magnets!

Magnetic Plaster - Attaching A Picture Frame

The magnetic wall is amazing and the possibilities are endless. It gives you so much flexibility to change things around without leaving hundreds of holes in the wall. No more need to plan out a gallery wall before you attach it – just ‘stick’ your art to the wall and move it around until you are happy. It’s just so easy.

We used magnetic sheets which come with a sticky back and all you have to do is cut them to the size you want (which is really easy with just some scissors) and then stick them to whatever you want to attach to the wall. We used these magnets which were kindly provided by First4Magnets. They were the strongest sheet magnets we could find and worked perfectly on our new wall.

Magnetic Wall

If you use strong magnets, you can even stick attach fairly heavy items to the wall (the Rooms Made For You website recommends not going over 5kg).

Both the magnetic plaster and the normal plaster have roughly the same drying time (magnetic plaster is applied slightly thicker, so will take a tiny bit longer to dry) so we had to wait a few days before we could get our paintbrushes out.

Edwardian Hallway

Although our house isn’t huge, we do have a fairly large hallway and high ceilings which meant that the size of the area we had to paint really added up – especially considering that the whole room had to be painted 4 times!

Hallway Plastered With Magnetic Plaster

Yep, you heard right – 4 times. Because the walls are newly plastered they soak up any moisture almost immediately which means that you have to prime them before painting.

It’s important to do the necessary prep work when painting new plaster and you can read our full guide on how to paint new plaster walls here.

  1. Prime the walls (we use watered-down white emulsion)
  2. Prime the walls again
  3. Paint the walls with white emulsion
  4. Paint the finishing colour coat
  5. Apply a second coat of the finishing paint
Priming Newly Plastered Walls

I know it sounds like a lot (and it is) but you really don’t want to waste your expensive paint because you can’t apply it properly and the first 3 steps ensure that you have a good base to work from.

Priming Newly Plastered Walls

We don’t really have a dedicated place to hang coats and jackets, which is fine when it’s just the two of us, but as soon as we have anyone visiting there always seems to be a pile of coats covering every surface.

We don’t really want a coat stand in the hallway (I think they always look messy and end up full of clutter), so figured that we’d really try to make the most of our new magnetic plaster wall and have coat hooks that we can attach to the wall as and when we need them.

Hallway Plastered With Magnetic Plaster

Now when we have guests visiting we can attach as many hooks as we need and hide them again when everyone has gone. Because it’s so flexible, we can attach hooks at different heights so that visiting children can have their own lower hooks, too.

I should point out that you need really strong magnets for the coat hooks and that hanging anything heavy on them doesn’t work overly well – we do love to test things to their limit and it was worth a try!

Magnetic Plaster with Magnetic Coat Hooks

I love that we can easily change our pictures in the hallway around and that we can easily leave notes and reminders on our wall that we’ll (hopefully) see before leaving the house.

Hallway with Magnetic Walls

I would love to have magnetic walls everywhere, but the magnetic plaster is expensive so, in reality, it’s only something you would use for select areas. Having said that we’ll definitely be using it again and are already thinking of having a magnetic wall in our new kitchen.

Hallway Plastered With Magnetic Plaster

I guess that you can tell we’re really happy with our new hallway and in particular the magnetic wall.

It’s great to have no more Artex and the magnetic wall works much better than we’d ever expected. As great as it is, we should probably start to get back to working on projects we’d actually planned on doing this year – but hey, sticking to projects we actually planned to do this year would be boring!

Hallway with Magnetic Walls

Have you ever heard of magnetic plaster? Would or have you used it in your home? What do you think of our colour choice? Where would you have magnetic plaster walls in your home?

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  1. Deanna Lanterna says

    28/11/2016 at 13:43

    Hey, the improvements make your hard work really worth it!

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  2. Jessica@CapeofDreams says

    23/04/2016 at 11:03

    How cool is that! I want magnetic walls!!!! They look great.

    Reply
    • Christine says

      23/04/2016 at 11:16

      Thanks, Jessica! We love that they look no different to any other wall – it’s such a clever product!
      Cx

      Reply
  3. Lydia Persky says

    22/04/2016 at 17:15

    Incredible! I’ve never heard of magnetic plaster. Really want to try it. Hopefully its something I can buy in the US.

    Reply
    • Christine says

      22/04/2016 at 17:40

      I’d not heard of it till recently either, Lydia. It’s amazing – keeping my fingers crossed that you can get hold of it!
      Cx

      Reply
  4. Lins @ Boo & Maddie says

    22/04/2016 at 09:48

    It looks incredible and I really love the colours you’ve chosen too, so clean and light and airy. Pete would be over the moon if he never had to hang another picture in the traditional sense!!

    I love your dado rail (is that the right word?!) I’m trying to work out whether to reinstate one or not around our hallway/landing. We’ve got an annoying mix of just plain walls with no skirting and no alcoves, some rooms have picture rails, grrr X

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    • Christine says

      22/04/2016 at 10:46

      Thank you so much Lins! It really feels much more like a room now. I love the magnetic plaster – we only have it on the ground floor and already wish we had it everywhere. Attaching a picture the traditional way just seems like too much effort now! ;)
      It’s weird how people used to remove features. I personally like the dado rail in the hallway. There’s not much furniture in the space, so it’s nice to have something to add a bit of interest and detail.
      Cx

      Reply
  5. Mike says

    22/04/2016 at 09:05

    What were the paint colours you used in the hallway? Looks just like what we want to do! That plaster is ingenious too, will have to try that out one day…

    Reply
    • Christine says

      22/04/2016 at 09:15

      We should have mentioned the colours in the post – thanks for the reminder Mike! We used Cornforth White over the dado rail and Strong White under the dado rail. We also refreshed the woodwork which is now painted in All White (all by Farrow & Ball).
      Cx

      Reply
  6. Dave Cooper says

    22/04/2016 at 08:45

    Congratulations guys, looks amazing. Wish we hadn’t just finished decorating our daughter’s room as a magnetic wall would have been a great feature to add. Keep up the good work.

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    • Christine says

      22/04/2016 at 09:12

      Thank you, Dave! The magnetic plaster is a fairly new thing, but I’m sure you’ll see it everywhere soon – it really is amazing.
      We’re always tackling home improvements and then finding new things that we could have also done. I guess there’s always something else out there to try!
      Cx

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