Step across your front door threshold and into your foyer
Your foyer is your introduction to the interior colors and the feel of your home. A thread of color is the main color that you have throughout your home and shows your personality. Some foyers are too small to place furniture pieces in them so adding a picture would draw interest.
If you have the space, you can dress it up with a piece of furniture such as a chest or console table. Add a narrow console with a large mirror above, perfect for those small foyers. This provides a cozy, well-established entrance and somewhere to drop your keys. From a designer’s standpoint, a table with a picture or mirror above and one or two lamps on top with a charming accent rug will make a statement right away.
Depending on your space, a chair or bench is also an inviting addition to your foyer. If you have a staircase in the foyer, displaying family photos is interesting and timeless. As does a grouping of pictures or sconces up the stairway adds a focal point to your room.
What are the colors in your home? What are the colors that make you feel good?
Your foyer should introduce that dominating color that will serve as the thread you bring to each room in your home. Not every piece has to have your main color in it. It is also interesting to add metals such as gold, silver, or black to the mix for accessories or lamps.
Once you have decided on your base color, keep this color as a thread throughout the home. For example, in your foyer the walls are navy so add a light-colored chest with a mirror above in silver for stunningly rich stand-out colors while contrasting your wall color. Accenting a blue and white lamp on the chest and chairs on either side will pull the room together.
When repeating the color in the next room. Looking into the living room it has Navy draperies floor to ceiling, contrasting the white walls framing your beautiful view. This is called a focal point, which we will discuss in more detail later.
Foyer design ideas
Envision the living room with white sofas and a couple of navy accents on the coffee table. Bring your thread of color to the kitchen, add a Roman shade to the window over the sink in blue and white print contrasting the white cabinets. The den features navy walls again with white bookcases and a leather sofa with blue and white throw pillows. The draperies in white are floor-to-ceiling to contrast against your navy walls creating a bold and beautiful look. With this open concept, you see each of the rooms and the thread of color repeated portraying a cohesive flow with eye-catching bursts of color throughout. The thread of color chosen can dominate a room or can be an accent color in your room.
- The foyer is a perfect place to introduce a color you want to repeat throughout your home.
- By putting a lamp in the foyer and one in the living room on timers, you are not walking into a dark home and your foyer is lit when someone comes to visit. This also makes it look like someone is always home.