A Small Entrance Hall or Anteroom Lobby: How to Design Them

A Small Entrance Hall or Anteroom Lobby: How to Design Them

Intro

A small entrance hall or anteroom lobby is the first impression of the home, is both beautiful and storage of a functional area, a delicate and beautiful with a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby can make people enter the door can have a different feeling, so that people have a good feeling about home.

a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby

Entrance, also known as the foyer, the first look into the door to see the furniture, is the gateway to our house bear, in many families’ decoration, will be in the entrance foyer decorated with a shoe cabinet, easy to place shoes, but also has a certain decorative effect.

a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby

How to design the entrance hall

Universal small and medium-sized home entrance area is not large, the door is either a wall or a corner, the location is too narrow do not know how to arrange the shoe cabinet?

a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby

Entrance is a corridor

If you open the door and need to pass through a space similar to the corridor to reach the living room, then you can use the corridor side of the wall to create I-type a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby. This saves the use of space and ensures the function of storage.

a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby

The design of an entryway needs to be based on the size of the space as well as the functional needs. If the space is not big enough, you should prioritize to meet the most basic function of changing shoes and putting shoes, followed by other functions such as shoe changing stool and hanging clothes area.

Entrance with a corner

Generally, set up a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby in the wall opposite the door, it is more convenient to use. Usually leave space in the middle of the cabinet for placing bags or decorations to create the first line of sight of the entrance.

If the space is wide enough, in addition to meet the most basic storage function, you can also incorporate a coat and hat area, shoe bench, shelving area and full-body mirror and other functions, to achieve the effect of a cabinet multi-purpose.

Encountering the wall opposite the door is not enough space, then use the wall behind the door to create a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby, the top of the custom shoe cabinet storage capacity will be greatly upgraded.

Entrance is the living room

Many households enter the door directly in front of the guest dining room, there is no entrance, there is no corridor, shoes, clothes do not know how to place, the most embarrassing is that guests enter the door on the whole interior at a glance.

Into the door is the living room, there is no entrance feeling no privacy, then the use of a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby to create a “gateway” to! Not only can play the role of blocking the line of sight, but also provide the function of putting shoes to change shoes, hanging clothes and storage.

Don’t mind not having an entrance door, living room at a glance, you can set a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby parallel to the left or right side of the entry door, every time you enter the door has a sense of ceremony.

Dining room

Many households enter the door is the dining room, the simplest way is to use the wall perpendicular to the entry door to create the a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby.

In addition, you can also consider the combination of sideboards and shoe cabinets in one piece, which solves the problem of shoe storage, but also solves the problem of dining room storage.

Staggered a small entrance hall or anteroom lobby + sideboard overall home design, fashionable, but also to meet the storage needs of the entrance and dining room.

Entrance doorway shoe cabinet design considerations

Design partition

If there is no design partition, we open the door of the first eye can see everything in the living room, because there is no space to buffer, ultimately the lack of a sense of privacy, so in the design of the entrance hall shoe cabinet can be designed as a partition, according to different home conditions and concepts, to play a buffer role more to add a sense of design of the home.

Consistent style

Entryway shoe cabinet design should not be too abrupt, and the entire interior decoration style and mood to maintain consistency, the decoration should not be too much, because the entryway shoe cabinet area is not very large, so the decoration should not be too complex, simple decoration will be just right. The design should be harmonized with the living room wall, the ceiling top can be used to model the exquisite ceiling, so that the entrance door shoe cabinet space is bright and divided, at the same time, the shoe cabinet design should be consistent with the overall style.

According to the type of household design

Smaller houses can be used in the shoe cabinet vertical or embedded shoe cabinet method, entryway shoe cabinet is generally close to the wall, entryway shoe cabinet vertical design can save more space to increase storage, embedded shoe cabinet can be chiseled away from the wall a little space to do shoe cabinets, both of which can be at the bottom of the bottom of the empty space to put slippers, can be integrated into the function of the shoe bench. Household if relatively large, the entrance hall shoe cabinet can be designed as parallel, parallel to the wall of the shoe cabinet, but also in the upper part of the empty space to do storage, usually placed keys, bags, etc., are very convenient, but also consider the combination of design with other cabinets, such as the entrance hall shoe cabinet and wine cooler can be designed together.

Bright lighting

The lighting design of the entrance hall shoe cabinet is also very important, the entrance hall is too dark, it will be the whole layout of the home looks depressing, affecting the mood at the same time affecting the beauty, just the right pendant lamp design will make the area become bright and popular, at the same time with some light rich lamps and lanterns, in the night time, extremely glamorous.

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