Spruce Up Your Front Door Ideas from Our House Tours

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With the onset of Spring, it's time to take a good look at your front entrance. Not just the landing strip, but the outside of your home as well. Does your entrance welcome people or scare them away?

From Joshua and Rafael’s Salvage Love. A red front door is a good luck element in Feng Shui. In any language, it's a bright and cheery welcome.

From Kevin and Greg’s Sugar Shack. A bench outside your home is a great place to set down packages or a place to remove shoes, if that's the rule in your house.
From Grace's "Dr. Houselove". Flowers and plants are always welcoming. Take care of them and prune them so they always look lively and fresh.
From Lori2's Mom's Palm Springs House
Dust your front door, sweep your entranceway, replace burnt out bulbs and shine your doorknob regularly and your home will always welcome you and your guests.

Comments (3)

I've been thinking about this a lot as well. i live in this condo-type place and it's all new and sterile and though I'd like to do something for the front entrance, I don't know what I could get away with without neighbors and their dogs tripping over it on their way through to the elevators... no one else has done anything to their front door/entry area. Hmmm.

posted by scmorgan81 on June 3rd 2008 at 11:35am
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Yeah, condo-type places are tough, scmorgan81. Maybe a wreath on the door and/or a distinctive welcome mat?

posted by nantarea on June 3rd 2008 at 4:01pm
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(Well tended) plants in very elegant pots - even one - will look great.

posted by EAM on June 5th 2008 at 3:48am
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