Furnishing Friday: Modern Coastal Entryway

Welcome to the second installment of Friday Furnishing Ideas! [Check out last week’s post here!] Like I said last week, I need to start doing these design boards in my own home, so that’s exactly what I did this week!

I’ve been wanting to redo some of the decor in our house to make it all more cohesive and the style that I really want. I’m planning on doing a few of these design boards to make sure they all work together before I change anything! It can definitely be hard to make your house feel cohesive, but I think it’s pretty important to achieving a high-end feel to your home decor.

I figured I’d start at the front of the house and work my way back, so here is an entryway design board! I also put these pieces into a picture of our entryway below to see how they would actually work.

Just like last week, I started with our paint colors and some coordinating colors. We have Repose Gray by Sherwin Williams in almost every room on our first floor, except our dining room [which is visible from the entryway and is Dorian Gray by Sherwin Williams]. PS. Check out the paint colors in our house here and my tips for choosing paint colors here!

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Some other considerations I made while creating this board: any furniture we currently have that is visible from the entry that I definitely want to keep, any decor items we currently have that I could incorporate (the floor vase and blue grass stems), and the size of the items we need for the space.

A lot of the times when I’m shopping, I find something I like first and then measure second. But it definitely makes more sense to do it the other way around! For instance, we really need a custom size runner in our entry because it is a very long but relatively narrow space. A runner of 3 or 3.5 ft by 12 ft is really the correct size but since that’s not a common runner size, my first attempt was two buy two 4×6 rugs and put them both in the entry with a small gap. It’s an ok look but not ideal. If I’m going to redo the decor here, I want it to be exactly the way I want!

So, I measured everything first, wrote it down, and then started shopping. And then, when I found something that could possibly work, I actually taped it out in the space to make sure.

Here is how I envision some of the pieces in my entry:

Also, this week I thought I would include some pictures that inspired this look for me!

I love the coastal and beachy feel to this spot! It might be just a tad bit too beachy for my house but I am definitely trying to incorporate a few more modern coastal elements in my decor.