In this situation landing strips tend to migrate into the whole room.
Front door into sitting room.
No one wants to open the door for guests into a big mess.
If doors on every wall of your living room are stumping you as to where to place your furniture don t worry about the wall space.
There are two kinds of homes.
Standard entry doors are 36 inches wide and that 3 feet is a boon to creating the feeling of an entry.
Enter today s design dilemma.
How do you decorate your living room when your front door opens into it so it s guest ready and homey.
The first one has an entryway a small hallway a nook near the front door or even a sharp turn that separates the front door from the rest of the home.
You ll take about 5 away from the room but you can then make the room a cozy nook.
You walk in the door and literally fall smack dab into the living room.
My house in atlanta is the perfect example of this dilemma.
Swap the front door with the window next to it the one farther from the fireplace.
Front door into living room solutions.
For today s design dilemma i m talking about how to design a living room where the front door opens into it.
How to decorate when your front door opens into your family room corbin page interiors.
Make an entry mudroom with shelves bench hooks that separate it from the fireplace area.
At the same time keeping a house in pristine guest condition 24 7 is unrealistic.
And then there s the problem that the rest of us face.
Take advantage of the swing of your door a door that swings in so that its back is against the seating group will create a slight barrier between the two and will help block sight lines into the conversation area.
I would be walking from kitchen through the lounge and into dining room at least 6 times before sitting down for dinner to put cutlery out to put drinks out to put out sauces and salt pepper then with 2 kids dinner plates.