Alair Homes
Your entryway is easily one of the most important parts of your home’s design. Every guest who enters your home will have their first impression made by your entryway. For a space that occupies such a prominent place in a Hamilton home’s decorating hierarchy, it often receives too little consideration. This is a space that cries out for layering elements that will make every person who walks through your front door feel happy, warm and welcomed. To do that, follow these 10 tips for creating the perfect entryway.
1. Let There Be Light
Follow nature’s lead and let there be lots of layered light in your entryway. As well as natural light, you need to add three or four different lighting elements to create the sort of warm, welcoming glow that instantly makes your guests feel at home.
2. Tell an Artistic Story
You want your entryway to have lots of bold, stylish choices. Look for design elements that look like they would be at home in the entryway of a somebody who works in the fashion or art industry. Imagine you are at a stylish New York City apartment. Imagine you are at the home of a rich countess. Imagine you are at a country estate. It doesn’t matter what story you tell, just let it be a fabulous one.
3. Scale Is Everything
One of the most essential elements of design is a sense of scale. You need your entryway to have a balanced, harmonious feeling to create a welcoming oasis. Never let one element of the design overwhelm the space.
4. Use Foreshadowing
The best designed homes have notes that echo throughout every room of the house. The design of each room of the home should build on the preceding rooms. Nowhere is this more important than in the home’s entryway. You want your entryway to foreshadow what the design in the rest of the home looks like.
5. Don’t Skip the Rug
Just don’t do it. Don’t skip the rug. It is the sun of the entryway’s solar system. The rest of the entryway revolves around your rug.
6. Be Bold
Never be afraid to be bold in your entryway’s design. This is your chance to set a strong impression for visitors who are arriving for the first time in your home.
7. Wallpaper Is Back
Wallpaper may have fallen out of favor for a little while, but it is back in a big way. You want to make sure to add the warmth of a thick wallpaper to your entryway for that cozy, inviting feeling.
8. Make It Functional
Don’t forget that you will need a lot of functionality in your entryway. This means adding things like a coat rack. Don’t forget to add a stylish table or desk that can be used for keys, mail and other things you want to drop immediately after entering your home.
9. Plants Are Key
Don’t forget that visitors will be leaving a green landscape when they first enter. Ease their transition by using lots of plants in your entryway. Seeing beautiful plants is also a great pick-me-up when visitors come in your home after a cold winter’s day.
10. Add a Personal Touch
Whether it is a local item your family loves, a set of family photos or a family member’s work of art, be sure to add something to your entryway that you can proudly call your own. Giving heart to an entryway in this manner is one of the best ways to make people feel welcome.
