Your foyer will always be the first thing anyone sees when they enter your home for the first time. When people judge your home’s interior, and they will judge, that foyer will be what sets the tone for the rest of their experience inside. Because of their generally small size foyers are actually great candidates for makeovers since transforming them comes at a lower cost than bigger rooms. In a foyer redesign there are some important considerations that should be taken into account.
Consider Your First Impression
Due to its role as your entranceway the foyer has the ability to impart to guests, at a glance, what you want your home to be to them – what emotion you want to evoke within them. A welcoming foyer has warm colours or bright whites with wooden accents. If you want to project impressiveness go with gold and purple with a lush rug and big bronze framed mirror. Warmth, energy, or awe – all can be conveyed with the right eye on design.
Reflect Your Home
Your foyer is also a reflection of the aesthetic choices you’ve made in your home – an appetizer before the main course. Let your entrance hall be a small but potent microcosm of your home’s visual flair. If you have a lot of original art put a prominent piece near your entrance, go ahead and install those bronze sconces you love so much, and put out your elephant umbrella holder that matches your many ceramic elephants. Let your foyer be you.
Make it Useful
Guests, of course, aren’t the ones who are going to be using your entranceway the most. No, that will be you, and that means you should make some choices in service of the practical. Putting a mirror up front is always a good choice so you can do a last check on your way out as are a table for mail and other sundries and a hook or other holder for keys. In winter, as unpleasant as it may look, a rubber tray for wet boots may become a necessity as well.
Your foyer can be built to take the breath away of any guests or simply let them breathe a sigh of relief. The choice is yours. If you’re looking for flooring options for your foyer there are plenty of great options available. Contact or come down to Tony’s Flooring Centre today!
