5 Keys to Good Entryway Design

Reader Contribution by Susan Melgren and Web Editor
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Although it may be a small part of the big picture, a home’s entryway is an important room. This is the first room that greets you–and your guests!–on arrival, and it can set the tone for your home’s style and feel. An entryway that is crowded with junk mail, winter coats, shopping bags and enough shoes to fill the bottom of a closet is sure to make a bad impression on guests–and is sure to increase your stress level before you even make it in the door. Although each space is different, and how you design it is up to personal taste, here are five key elements to good entryway design.

Table

No entryway is complete without a table of some kind. If you want to keep your dining table and kitchen counters clear of junk mail (and if you want to be able to find your keys at a moment’s notice), then a table is key to a good entry. Top it with baskets for holding keys, cell phones, loose change and anything else that might come out of your pocket. An entry table is also the perfect place to set up a home mail processing center.

Storage

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