That blue wallpaper is fabulous! How I wish we had an entryway....apparently in 1956 all that was required to come inside was a small hallway. Definitely no room for anything but a body. Dang.

Jaw-droppingly lovely! All of 'em! Inspiring.
And I think I may have the answer to the issue of how to finish the walls inside our own small front vestibule. They're bound to be knocked/dented/scraped... so perhaps anaglypta wallpaper would hide the damage and add a shot of old-timey stylin'?
It's a 1939 townhouse with mouldings in the principal ground floor rooms.

enjoyed this post. thx.m

I don't have an entryway! I live in a small cottage that started life as a summer vacation home. No entryway, no hallways. You either walk right into the middle of the living room or into the laundry room. I'd love to have a small foyer or coat closet.
On another note, those fretwork panels are GORGEOUS! What a great idea to punch up a wall.

LOVE the fretwork! I think this patchwork of fretwork would serve a patio well, too. Or you could use them as stencils to spray paint a concrete wall or fence. So pretty!

makes me wish I had an entryway! beautiful

I adore the fretwork! I wonder where I could get some?! The stained glass is awesome, too!

I have an interesting "landing strip" issue. I need two! My partner and I nearly always enter through our attached garage. The door opens into the kitchen, and our breakfast table is the first thing you encounter, so we tend to drop things off there. We have a rug to leave our shoes, and to be honest, we dump our coats on the breakfast table's chairs. (I tried an over-the-door coat hook, but he removed it because he thought it would scratch the paint. Maybe I will add some wall hooks...)

Then we have the front door, which guests and repairmen use. That's my decorative foyer "landing strip" area. Originally (in the model home our house was based on) you would open the door and face a closet, which I thought was kind of ugly. So in our house, we chose to make that a lighted niche where a console sits (meant to be a TV stand, with glass fronted doors on the sides and 4 square drawers meant for DVDs in the center. I stash things like my furniture moving pads and extra Command hooks there...) I painted the back wall a metallic moss green (a Ralph Lauren paint) and hung some starburst mirrors. Just around the corner is a coat closet, so eliminating one didn't matter much. It's more of a "landing strip" by suggestion than in actual use, but I like the way it welcomes people into the house. (I put a small Christmas tree on the console, so it's especially festive in the holidays.)

I'd love the source for those panels as well. Some of the patterns are just stunning!

PrettyBonesArt & Vollhardtandschore -

The source for the panels is listed as Jali (in the UK)-http://www.jali.co.uk/products/fretwork-panels/fretwork-panels.cfm

I love the fretwork, but man. I NEED to know where that wire coat tree came from in the 6th picture! My boyfriend and I have been dieing for a coat tree but our floor space at the door doesn't really allow for it. That fun rack would fit the bill excellently.

Tweets -
Here's the info on the wire coat tree-
It's from Maze, and was originally available through Manikkens-
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/organizing/manikkens-wire-tree-016434

However, that link doesn't seem to be working, so here's another Swedish site that sells it - http://www.litetstra.se/item.php?action=view&id=1542

Does anyone know where the mirror on the right from the 3rd picture (stained glass) is from? Or any tips on how to create that look/pattern? It doesn't look like its a regular frosting of the mirror. Thanks in advance!

Is there a source for the mid-century coat rack in the 14th image?

Not having a mud-room area kills me. My door goes right into my small kitchen. Its narrow enough there that there is no spot for even a boot tray. So, I got a pot rack to free up some space, and took the doors off of two lower cabinets right next to the entrance. A shoe rack, a welcome mat, a roman window shade, and tada! A shoe cubby. :)

Our entryway is almost too large - i don't want a mudroom style area (with shoes, coats etc) but we've already got a pretty large sideboard there, a gorgeous persian carpet, and it still looks... bare. Some of these have given me great ideas though, like maybe a couple of chairs (for ease of shoe fumbling), and a mirror to check how you look before you run out the door is always nice...

@ Sherry - have you thought about using a short shelf hung on the wall by the garage door? We had a table just inside the garage door for years that was our landing strip. In this place we still haven't found a good spot for the table.

Please, please, please tell me where I can find that abstract painting (?) in picture five of the last row?! It's the one hanging above the inset shelf...

I'm also very interested in the abstract painting. Picture five of the first row. Does anyone know the artist?

I just figured out the painter. Her name is Meredith Pardue. Thanks!