Hey! Today I wanted to stop in and share how our entry way currently looks, as well as share the journey that (was not so quick but also) led it to how it looks today. We DIY'd this space as one of the very first projects when we bought our home and I really think that we got a ton of bang for our buck out of it. I love how inviting and fun to decorate this entry way wall is.
Ever since I saw one of my friend's Connecticut iron doors (her front door and patio door), I am obsessed with home decor. Now I am a firm believer in the importance of a good-looking entryway to greet your guests when they come to your home. I think it's definitely a strong first impression... you can either show them what you're all about... or not use the chance to wow them. Just make sure that you don't clutter it up too much, you want them to be able to move around without having them trip over all your bits and pieces. It would be a good thing to take this time and really see what furniture/items you want to keep and which ones would be better off in a dumpster. You can Click for local dumpster delivery and pick up or you can take them to the disposal site yourself if there are not too many items.
Our entryway happens to not be much of an entry at all, it's really just straight into our front living room and a long wall. Long walls are hard to decorate because the scale always is so distorted on them. When we first moved in I put a cute piece of furniture on the wall and a pretty mirror but it never felt right. To this day, I still couldn't tell you exactly why it didn't feel right, but do you know when you just have that feeling? Something just felt wrong, but I couldn't put my finger on what it was.
And it's not like I haven't had the inspiration. Nearly all of my friends have perfect entryways that make you excited to explore the house further. If I could, I would love to have the ability to take small parts of each of their designs and feature them in my home. My one friend, for example, used this professional woodworking Montreal company to help create unique cabinets and other pieces of furniture for her entryway. In fact, you will find them scattered all around her house because she just loved them that much. The first time I saw them, I was just in awe. They looked amazing, and I would love to have them in my house one day.
When my attention finally turned back to the cute piece of furniture on the wall and the mirror, I just knew that I had to change it. So eventually we added the board and batten with the picture ledge and it felt much better. I loved that metal bench, but back to it being an enormous wall and the scale never feeling quite right... eventually I ditched my super cute bench and bought a longer entry table from World Market, the Everett Foyer Table it did a much better job at filling the space I had.
I finally got enough picture frames to fill up the top picture ledge and hung them all up. Most of them are sceneries like beautiful mountains (those interested to make purchases related to this can check out the enticing pictures of Blue Ridge Mountains), beaches, and whatnot! However, some of them are my family pictures too. I have plans of hanging out more in the future if I get some good landscapes or portraits. Besides this, I've gone through times of having a LOT of decorations on the table, but recently on my journey of quieting the house I removed a bunch of decor and just left a couple things, I'm in the mood lately of just letting my bigger items speak for themselves and I'm loving the results. The story of quieting this space is the same. I think using this train of thought could help save you money too, instead of buying all the things you think are cute or charming... think if they could stand on their own or if they need to be part of a grouping... maybe let them go in favor of classic more statement making pieces.
It's a little comical to me that it took me 4 years to figure out how to best address this space, when I get paid to figure out people's spaces for like... a living. It's harder in your own home I think, it takes living in a space for a while for it to tell you how it really needs to work for you and your family best. I'm finally learning to listen to this voice into my own home and have loved the results.
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