hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age and early Middle Ages in northern Europe, a mead hall was where a lord and his retainers ate and also slept. Later in the Middle Ages, the great hall was the largest room in castles and large houses, and where the servants usually slept. As more complex house plans developed, the hall remained a large room for dancing and large feasts, often still with servants sleeping there. It was usually immediately inside the main door. In modern British houses, an entrance hall next to the front door remains an indispensable feature, even if it is essentially merely a corridor.
Today, the (entrance) hall of a house is the space next to the front door or vestibule leading to the rooms directly and/or indirectly. Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, corridor (from Spanish corredor used in El Escorial and 100 years later in Castle Howard), or hallway.

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    Hall Setting out

    What do you think guys? This is for a hall we've gotta do. Tiles are 600x600 Compac Quartz. The hall has all sorts of twists and turns, you can see in the bottom half of the pic I played with 400x400's but discounted that idea. Any ideas how the setting out could be improved?
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  2. bluesky

    original style setting out in hall

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    Discontinued tile search for bathroom tiles used in London County Hall flats

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    grout line in centre of hall or full tile ???

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    Kitchen and hall on different levels

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    help cleaning problem victorian tiled hall floor.

    I am trying to clean a victorian tiled hall floor but am having a problem. The floor has been previously sealed with Hg Golvpolish. I have cleaned the floor back using Hg Remover but the area of the floor that gets the most traffic and is a bit more worn than the rest now looks white and patchy...
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    Victorian hall tiles - what products to clean off glue and dirt

    Hi, and thanks at the outset to anyone helping with some advice. I've just found underneath some lino in my hallway, some beautiful Victorian tiles. However, the lino was stuck to the tiles with some brown/yellow glue, and it has been there for about 25-30 years. While I've managed to get off...
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    What stone for my hall / toilet?

    Can't quite afford sandstone , like the look of the tumbled trav and the missus he just found some pics of tumbled limestone . We like the lighter ( in colour ) natural stone look . Difficulty of job is also a factor as I don't have too many stone jobs under my belt:thumbsup: Thanks for any...
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    Floor Tiles Wanted for Village Hall

    I have offered to tile the floor of the WCs in my village hall for free subject to being able to find some suitable remnant tile stock cheap as chips. Does anyone in the North Yorkshire area have any going spare? Colour unimportant as long as it's light and fairly plain but they must be big...
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    Hi ~ I'd like help removing paint and plaster from 1900 unglazed/ lightly hall tiling

    I need recommendations for products and methods of removing paint and general crud from my hall. I haven't started yet because the tiles are a reddy brown mottle effect with an inserted black grecian edging. I don't want to spoil them if possible. When clean I'd like to seal them. Thanks and...
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    hall and kitchen floor tiler in Brighton

    Hi there I'm looking for a tiler in the Brighton area to lay two floors in our home. First we need a new kitchen floor approx 30sqm, we will supply the tiles but floor will need to be boarded. Then we need the hall tiling, which will be more complicated. We have black and white Victorian...
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    Wanted: Victorian tiled hall installation

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    unusual shaped hall

    Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me. I have a victorian house with the a typical hallway layout. Straight in from the door to the stairs and then it widens out to one side to lead to the kitchen. There is one exception. The house is in a crescent and as a consequence is wedge shaped. The hall...
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    hi from steve hall

    alreet hello again :yikes:
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  15. bluesky

    victorian hall floor

    what do you guys think ?client loved it and paid so i must be doing something right !:hurray:
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  16. macten

    Hall and cloakroom

    Job I'm on at the moment is ripping out and replacing the basin and toilet in a downstairs cloakroom and tiling its floor and the adjacent hall floor. Finished that bit today. Will be doing the cloakroom walls and final fit next week. Cloak room: Altered waste and feed to fit new bog and...
  17. Sean Kelly

    Parquet floor in hall.

    A householder now wants ceramic tiles in her hallway instead of parquet flooring. I thought that Hardibacker would be the solution, but reading through different threads I now believe that the parquet is best taken up. A tiny bit of the edge of the parquet has worked loose and it has this black...
  18. C

    Hall flooring

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    Tilers Forums Hall of Shame....

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