Hallway Paint Color Ideas

Pale yellow... is a basic 'neutral' that goes with mostly anything.
Also think about the lighting you have in the hallway.
Is it a fluorescent light or an incandescent light?

Or go with primary colors.
Or an accent color.
You can also put a mirror on the wall.
Or sconces.
Or paintings/art work.

"Pale" yellow, can sometimes look washed out. Or like an off-white. So choose a good yellow.
Bring home paint chip samples. Or a can of a sample paint.
Then put it up on your wall, and see at different times of the day, how the color 'reads' in your hallway.

Is there a way you can add a mirror at the end of the hallway or on a one side of the wall that a window could slightly reflect off of (with out blinding you) to help bring in natural light from another room?

I think a small, dark, uninteresting space like a hallway often benefits from a dark, striking color. I painted mine kind of a dark apple green, and I love it.

If you are going to go for yellow in a space with no light, you will have to use a much richer, brighter yellow than you would otherwise use. I ended up putting a Behr Disney color bright yellow in my son's room, which had little light, because lighter yellows just looked lifeless. So if you want to use yellow, don't make it a pale yellow. As S.H. says, it will look washed out.

My hallway is Khaki (just like the pants) We love it :-) Good luck

Paint is a great idea but lighting plays and important part as well. Do you have enough lighting in the hallway. Can the electrical lighting for that area be increased like going from 40w bulb to a 100w. I know some fixtures can only sustain a bulb up to 60w max.

I had a hall like this once. We painted the top half of the wall a light color pure white, the bottom of the wall was a dark color midnight blue (hid finger prints well). and we painted the ceiling a beautiful shade of sky blue. It was fantastic. I also opted to put up a wall paper border of paisleys with blue and white between the two paint colors. Made that space look so incredibly chic for next to nothing. Also pulling a table and a lamp into the area gave me the light it felt it needed.

I love paint because it can always be changed for little cost.

To create a color palette that works for your home, select a pattern you like on paper - wall paper, scrap book paper or a cloth - dish cloth, towel, sheet - just find some color combination you like tha tgoes with your home. Then take the lightest color in that palette and paint your hallway that color. Then it will match your home.
Yellow is fine, but we would have no idea how it would look in your home without seeing it!!