From Blah To Brilliant: A Colorful Entryway

An important step of Apartment Therapy's Home Cure is to create a functional and inspiring landing strip. And while your landing strip can be found in alternate rooms, we usually spot them in a home's entryway. Such is the case with this landing strip--which went from blah to brilliant with a little TLC...

We included a "Before" photo of the entryway during the overhaul process at the end of the gallery. Going from dull brown walls to bright lime green makes the space vibrant and feel alive. We love the decision to paint the chrome shelf a fun red which adds another pop of color. A bold blue dresser below can be used as an in/out container and its surface for stowing keys, phones and sunglasses. The patterned black and white rug adds a bit of balance and texture to the space--bringing the entryway together.

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(Images: From Flickr member skarpetka86 used under Creative Commons License)

Comments (4)

Very nice indeed. That antique door would sing if it was stripped off of its paint and then oiled or varnished with a high gloss. It would be a fab contrast with those bright mod colors.

posted by medusa12120 on September 23rd 2009 at 7:15pm
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i love black & white against bold colors and this is a great execution of that. personally, i would have gone a touch warmer on the paint colors because of the floors (which are really neat!) ... but either way, a job well done.

posted by cloudsoup on September 23rd 2009 at 9:39pm
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thanks guys:)
but to be honest it looked a bit uglier before, something like -> http://www.flickr.com/photos/skarpetka_/3968968610/ ;)

posted by skarpetka on September 30th 2009 at 7:24am
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I love the vintage feel. This is a good example of how much can be done with so little :-)

posted by majulek on October 3rd 2009 at 11:43am
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