| Deer Skye Quilt and Home Design

Your entryway is your welcome statement. It is the first thing people see when they enter your front door. You can decorate your entry way with confidence in such a way that people will feel welcome when entering your home.

Follow These Steps and Apply These Ideas

Identify your style and follow through with decor that matches your style.
Get your entryway ready to decorate by cleaning it thoroughly.
Paint an old dresser to put in your entryway.
A painting makes an artful display. Or a picture that you really like. Choose one that you can pull colors out of to coordinate your decor.
Make a simple wooden pedestal riser to display accessories on and provide a bit of drama to your display.
Shop your home for accessories to use to decorate your entryway with.
Then shop local thrift stores.
Add faux or fresh greenery and flowers.
Stand back. Survey your space.
Add a tall vase and some twigs.
Add a new lamp or a new shade to an existing lamp.
Rugs are essential for defining the space.
Add pillows, candles, platters, etc…
Hang a wreath over your entryway table or dresser.
Add a saying on a sign.

I am all in for presentation especially in my entryway. This is an introduction to your home. A chance to put some of your personality into your residence. A preview of what your home will look like throughout. You want it to be warm, welcoming and of course beautiful. When I put my entryway together, it takes me two or three days to take things away and add them back in until everything feels just right and I mean just right!

What Is Your Style Goal

One thing that helps you know how to decorate your entryway is to know what your home design style is. If you need some help identifying your decorating style take a look here . This can help to keep you on track if you know what style you want to create in your entryway. As you look at your accessories, find ways to make them fit your style.

Clean Up

This is a given right? To clean the area you are decorating. Start by taking everything out of your entryway first. Then dust, vacuum, mop “snap crackle, pop” haha just had to throw that in. . It is always a breath of fresh air to start with a clean, empty slate when decorating a room. It is easier to picture what you want to achieve in decorating.

Start With A Dresser

I have a hand me down dresser. It started out black. I painted it dark gray. Wasn’t happy with that color either so I went light. I painted it chalk paint Serenity Blue by Rustoleum but I thought it needed to be a lighter blue so I added more white to make the blue look lighter. A dresser gives you a table top to use for decor. You can use the drawers for storage purposes. So it can be a multi purpose type entryway piece. It grounds your space.

If you would rather use a table or a chair that is a possibility too. You need a piece of furniture for your focal point will be the main piece in your entryway space that you will decorate around. Make sure that it fits the size of your area. Not too big or too small for the space you have.

Pick A Painting

Choose a painting that you like. Just a small painting that you can add accessories to that will enhance the color of the painting. For example, the picture I chose to display on my dresser, was painted by my talented Mother in Law. I added some greenery that matches the green in the painting. I painted my dark frame white and distressed it. I like a lot of white and the white frame enhanced the white in the picture. Anyway you get the drift. Pull colors from the picture and find accessories that accent those colors. Then your display will attract and be pleasing to the eye.

Wooden Risers Are Rad

You put feet on anything and it really elevates the decor item! You can easily make a wooden riser also called a pedestal wood riser and probably a few other names but I love using them to decorate with! They come in all shapes and sizes. Find a piece of wood chunky, thin whatever suits your taste. Depending on the piece of wood, you can sand the edges or not again up to you! With the piece of wood I chose it didn’t need to be sanded. It was odd shaped and had a hole in the middle but the color and imperfect look was beautiful. I added wooden craft balls to the bottom for feet. You can use wooden blocks, parts of spindles whatever will accent and elevate your wood. Paint your wood riser white or another color if you like. Small crates can have legs added to them or create a riser out of a small square wooden box. You can get creative and you’ll be amazed at what you come up with that will accent your space.

I painted my wood with a dark brown chalk paint wax with water added to it to make the wood look stand out more against my blue dresser. I put a couple of ceramic vases on each end of it and added some dried boxwood to the small vases.

Shop Your Home

I have picked up a lot of accessories over the years and I have learned to switch them out every so often and put them in different rooms and use them in a variety of ways to decorate with. Study your entryway and what you have put in it so far. What accessories do you already have that you can use? You’re gonna laugh but I found this old rusty fireplace grate sitting out by my husband’s shop. It must have been used by the people who originally built and lived in our home.

I know who would have thought? I love old stuff though. It has such character and charm to me. So I brought it in the house and decided to use it in my entryway. The rustish (so not a word but I just invented it!) color is striking against my blue dresser and the brown wall behind it. I wanted to lighten the dark rust brown up by adding the white painted picture frame that sits inside the grate framing my picture.

I already had the tall vase simply filled with tall twigs but it was downstairs in a bathroom sitting in a corner on the counter. I decided it was time to let it shine in my entryway. I love how it looks sitting on my entryway dresser. (Another gift from my in laws. My father in law turned it and gave it to my husband and I for Christmas one year. I cherish it!)

Another item I already had was a terra cotta pot aged with lime and then sealed it. The plant I had in it died Waaa! However love the pot so used it to display a beautiful old candle holder I got from a thrift store a while ago. See, I shop my home a lot! You can too! Before you get visions of sugarplums dancing in your head and want to buy accessories, see what you have on hand!

Now Shop Your Local Thrift

I have a favorite thrift store I frequent probably way to often but I have found the most delightful finds there! If you don’t have enough on hand to use in your space you can head out to a local thrift shop. I recently found a small ottoman or footstool. It is adorable. The top comes off to reveal a place for storage. It cost all of five dollars. Five dollars for a great find!

I like to put a chair or something next to my dresser to soften and add to my display so I knew this was it’s new home! As you shop, keep in mind your entryway. Maybe you will want an old frame, a mirror, or a vase. What is it that will take your entryway space from ordinary to WOW factor! Have fun and get creative. Do keep in mind though your style and what home design you are trying to create inside your front door.

Decorate With Greenery

Once you have made the basic outline of your entryway by placing accents where you want them to go, add a little bit of flair. I added some greenery. Greenery flowing over the side of a container is so romantic looking! I tucked some sage colored greenery in the top of my white vase sitting on my dresser. I had some faux pussy willows and set them at the top of my picture. I was surprised. how much this added to my display. Play around with flowers and greenery a bit. See what looks best in your space and go with it.

Survey Says

Now that you have added elements to your space, stand back for a minute and carefully observe. Does it look right? Is it flowing? Is it too crowded? Take things out or add things as needed. It might be a good idea to let is sit for overnight. Walk away and then take a fresh look at it in the morning.

Add Some Height To Your Display

I think an entryway display is more interesting when you add a little height to it if you have a tall ceiling. My entry way has a ceiling that climbs up to the second floor of our home. I grabbed a tall vase made of quaking aspen that my father in law made (mentioned it in a previous paragraph above) and put it on my dresser. It adds an element of surprise and draws the eye up making the entryway feel taller and spacious. I filled the vase with branches and twigs from my yard. I like the look!

Lamp Light Is Welcoming

If your space is dark and you need to add some light, try adding a lamp to your entryway. Change the lamp shade to fit your home design style. Maybe you will want to add more than one to your table or dresser. As it gets dusk each day, turn your lamps on to invite a warm cozy glow to your space. You can get fancy and add some decor to your lampshade like faux or fabric flowers, buttons, greenery, etc…

Add A Rug

Rugs add beauty and a softness to any space. Choose a design and a color that wont’t detract from or compete with your entryway decor and that will add to the beauty of it. A rug helps to define your space area. I love how inviting a rug can make your entryway. “It seems to say come on in and welcome to my home.” So to speak anyway.

Other Accessories

Pillows add comfort and pizazz to your entryway. Sometimes I put pillows on the floor in front of my dresser or table. This time I set two pillows that reflect the color of my tall vase on my small ottoman. Sometimes my decor inspiration comes in the middle of the night like my idea to add a throw to my ottoman. It is unexpected but enhances the brown and white in my display. It casually drops over the ottoman and puddles on the floor. I bought a beautiful ceramic platter for $1.00. That is what I said for $1! It really was a find! I set it under my white vase I bought at Target and set that in a handmade wooden bowl on top of the platter. The platter helps to lighten the space on my dresser where it sits. That is a secret design tip. You can lighten things up by adding in white where you need it to be.

The space next to my wreath on the wall looked lonely so I hung a piece of fancy molding as a decor accent. I like the white against the brown wall. Also a unique candle holder, stacked books, or

Elevate Your Look By Adding A Wreath

I grabbed the wreath off my front door and put it on the wall above my dresser. I made it out of boxwood after creating a live topiary. I took some fabric strips, tied them in a knot and tucked them into the side of my wreath letting them cascade down for some drama. Good drama that is!

I also filled my small ceramic vases sitting on the riser, with dried boxwood. Because I love wreaths and don’t think you can have too many, I set a a couple of wreaths into my display and by the pillows sitting on top of my ottoman, I placed another twig wreath by the pillows in front of the dresser.You will count three twig wreaths and the major wreath hanging over my dresser.

A Fun Sign Can Finish Off Your Decor

If you are into signs, welcome or otherwise add a sign to your space. It can be hung on the wall, set on your furniture piece or put on the floor in front of your table or dresser.

How Do I Decorate My Entryway