It is easy to forget that an entrance hall is a room... It often receives corridor status, but it is, in fact, an important space.
As the place for arrivals and departures, it sets the tone for the rest of the house, so it needs to be welcoming. For this reason, pay as much attention to the stuff in a hallway as you would in any other room, and don’t use it as dumping ground for furniture or art that has no home elsewhere.
Just because you’re moving through a space regularly to get to another room where you might spend longer, that doesn’t make it less important – if anything, it makes it more important.
The hallway is nearly always the part of a house that you and your guests will encounter first, so make sure it leaves an impression, perhaps by hanging a statement piece of art in it or by introducing an unusual color.
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