Bringing Up The Rear!

It just occurred to me that rear foyers are too often ignored or relegated to strict functionality.

That just isn't right.

It's time to bring up the rear!

If the rear foyer is the first thing you see upon entering your home, shouldn't it rise up to greet you?

Why do guests who come through the front get all of the pomp and circumstance??

YOU pay the bills!

I hereby declare that rear foyers should be just as spectacular as front foyers.

I plan on having an old fashioned closet and a separate dump zone in our rear foyer.

The new house plans have a blank area next to a closet that I want to fill with a pretty piece of furniture. Then, a mirror, and some hooks for hats and scarves.

I recently found an Antique Victorian Eastlake dresser that will fit into the new dump zone:

This baby is from the late 1800's-early 1900's. It needs some love, but once it is all cleaned up and has it's marble top, it will look similar to this:

eeep

I better get to work!

A dresser with drawers in an entry is perfect for storing hats and scarves, 900 crumpled receipts and post-it notes from my husband, AND my secret stash of snickers bars.

Another good idea is to store a few extras of the things that you ALWAYS forget to grab or put on and then have to run all the way back upstairs to get.

Like socks and deodorant.

Maybe even stash an emergency kit for those

"I'm running late and EVERYONE annoys me!"

sort of mornings...

A cute Kate Spade makeup bag perhaps??

Filled with emergency breakfast, instant coffee, bottled water, extra makeup, and gum.

It's hard to be annoyed while running late when you are so fabulously prepared!

At least the first time you are prepared with your kit.

The second time....if that kit isn't replenished...or put back where it belongs....watch out!

The top of the dresser is the perfect area to charge phones, dump change, throw keys, and plop down bags. My hope is that having pretty bowls and containers out on the dresser will encourage those loose things to land inside of them.

I have high hopes.

the bottom line: It is important to identify our habits, good or bad, and try our best to accommodate them. Since people rarely change, it is easiest to accept ourselves as we are, and make our surroundings work with us.

Functionally and Fabulously.

Because how you feel as you walk into your home every day is more important than how visitors feel when they walk in the front door every once in awhile.

***If creating fabulous rear foyers suddenly becomes the latest interior design craze.....you saw it here first!***