When your doorbell rings are you excited to answer the door or are you frantically running around clearing a path to get to the door? No matter what time or day our foyers should be company ready! And really, once you have it in tip-top order it is easy to keep it that way. Let’s get busy and create a foyer ready for company in just a few simple steps…
Let’s work on our foyer!
FANCY UP YOUR FRONT DOOR
I love having a seasonal wreath on my front door. It’s like having a welcome ready for anyone how shows up there. Make a wreath or buy one or dust off one you already have and hang it on the front door. A welcoming front door is the first step in a company ready foyer!
Also, have the outside area around the door swept and the doormat in good condition! And does your doorbell ring? We went two years with a broken doorbell and a note taped over it saying “sorry, broken doorbell, knock loud”. Not good form… but real life, right? Now we have a Ring doorbell and LOVE it! You can see what we have HERE.
Your foyer is not a landing place. Keeping clutter at a minimum will have this area of your home be one of the easiest rooms to maintain. Just a quick dusting and vacuuming and it should be good to go.
Talk over with your no clutter policy with your family. No clutter from no one!
I have a very ample foyer that sits between my living room and dining room and is the path to the stair. So keeping it clutter free is so important!
I also keep all paths to other room and the stairs free of extra furniture!
ROOM IN THE COAT CLOSET
If you have a coat closet, make sure there is room for people to hang their coats. This is the one closet that your guests will see and use, so make sure you don’t cringe when it is opened. Have a few nice hangers for them to use, as well.
This closet is not for stashing junk! Keep it junk free!
Try adding hooks in the foyer for people to hang their coats or leave their purses and other items on.
Besides the vertical hooks I have a boot tray by my front door to collect the shoes of guest and family that opt to go shoeless.
Many of us have a doormat on the outside of our front doors and they do keep a lot of dirt and shoe debris from being tracked into our homes. But how about putting a rug or mat right on the inside of our front door.
Choose something pretty and stylish that adds to your home and can be a second surface for catching any remaining “gunk” on shoes. And make sure you can wash it!
I switch up what I have right inside my door. For summer I’m using this pretty oilcloth that I found at a local store.
It’s nice to have some sort of table in a foyer. Somewhere your guests can leave their keys. You can even use a long shelf or a bench.
A lamp on a table gives a foyer some nice ambiance. We have ours on a dimmer. Oh, I love dimmers! You can see my favorites HERE.
Most of us appreciate a mirror in the entryway of a home. It gives us a chance to check and make sure everything about us is in place and ready to meet a guest!
I keep a tube of my favorite red lipstick in the left foyer buffet drawer to quickly put lipstick on before I open the door to guests.
This is not a must have, but I do love welcoming my guest with an arrangement of fresh flowers. It doesn’t have to be fancy, just a bouquet from the garden or tulips from the grocery store or a bunch of aromatic herbs will do the trick! You could also opt for a potted plant if you have a green thumb. And you can always fall back on realistic faux!
The other day I asked Bobby to pick flowers from the cutting garden (yes, he IS amazing) and he brought in these beauties! Bless his darling heart he thought the bolted dill were flowers. But doesn’t their spiky/fluffy heads look so pretty?
A PLACE TO SIT
If you can, put a small chair or bench or someplace to sit in your foyer. It’s a nice thing for your guests.
One of the extra dining room chairs fit perfectly by the foyer buffet. I actually used it to put on my shoes and then took them off again for this photo shoot!
If you can keep one room absolutely company ready your foyer should be it. Good news, right?
GET THE LOOK…
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