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First impressions count, and you’ll wow visitors, family, and friends with these front entry decorating ideas. Discover how to find space for a mudroom, and use these ideas for optimizing space with smart storage features.

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Planning Mudrooms:

household items that divide their time among several rooms. 5. Consolidation. Make features serve more than one function. A foyer bench, for example, can provide seating for removing wet shoes, a place beneath to store them, and a surface upon which

Finding Space for Mudrooms

closets, wide hallways, and ample foyers make fine candidates for entryway storage. Simply hanging some hooks or adding a foyer bench can be helpful. Devoting a single wall to shelving, cubbies, cabinets, or locker-style compartments also enhances

Presence From the Past

Presence From the Past

Bienz says. Double doors connect the front foyer to the office den. From the den, a client Linda Meyer says. The entrance stairs and foyer are open to the living area and the dining high and features a two-tier tray. The foyer and living area ceilings span the full

Festive Holiday Tables Made Easy

Festive Holiday Tables Made Easy

Focus on decorating the spaces that guests see first and gather most, like the foyer and living areas. To create the festive mood, set a welcoming table in the foyer with flutes filled with champagne and sparkling pomegranate juice, interspersed

Do-It-Yourself Bungalow

Do-It-Yourself Bungalow

can be charming. Use their ledges for display. The curtains are made from men's suiting fabric. The home lacked a formal foyer , so a focal point was created with a lamp, mirror, table, and art objects opposite the front door. Covering the chimney

A Passion for Old World Details

A Passion for Old World Details

attitude, starting with the dramatic see-through view from the foyer across the great room. He threw a curve into the European pendants with gold-leaf accents and frosted shades in the foyer and kitchen, wrap today's easygoing comfort in an old-house

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Home Plans With Bonus Rooms

Home Plans With Bonus Rooms

in closets and a shared full bath -- Foyer that leads to a corner office --Columned great study, office, or guest bedroom -- Foyer that opens into a large living room and country home has a flex room next to the foyer and an optional, upstairs bonus room

Before & After Home Tour: Restored Mid-Century Ranch

Before & After Home Tour: Restored Mid-Century Ranch

feature--was added. The tacked-on foyer was eliminated, and the restored home unnecessary space in the desert. The tacked-on foyer was eliminated, and the restored home 2,596 square feet, but removing the foyer and adding on to the master closet trimmed

A Home Makeover for Mom & Dad

A Home Makeover for Mom & Dad

blue walls and a pale blue ceiling, a foyer painted two shades of a green, and a dining t thrilled with the results. I had the foyer stair risers painted the same color as floral, and scenic fabrics. In the foyer , the rose-covered bench coordinates

Home Tour: Grand Spanish Colonial Renovation

Home Tour: Grand Spanish Colonial Renovation

order of business involved restoring the foyer , which had been reduced in the earlier the living room, the entrance from the foyer (not shown) was widened to allow the door was removed, opening the room to the foyer and allowing the space to be converted

Window Design Ideas: Entry Windows

Window Design Ideas: Entry Windows

grandeur of an atriumlike two-story vaulted foyer . In this case, entry windows are not edginess. The grid pattern repeats in the foyer floor, while the oblong shapes of the up the wall to play up the height of the foyer 's vaulted ceiling. Here's a real twist

Incorporating Period Architecture: Interiors

Incorporating Period Architecture: Interiors

start. True to its Tudor roots, this foyer includes Gothic archways that rise to a paneled wainscoting, which descends into the foyer . Note the three-part front door with guests to this Arts and Crafts-style foyer . A possible variation: Convert the cabinets

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