Create a foyer. Even if your studio doesn’t have a dedicated entry area, it’s important to create one, Claire says, because it gives you a moment to pause and take a breath before entering your home. “If you don’t have this, I find it’s really easy to walk into your apartment and throw your coat on the couch and put your mail down on the dining table,” she says. “It also just really closes in those walls, because it makes your entire studio apartment feel like it’s the entry, as opposed to the moment after the entry.
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We do have a small foyer and beyond that a kind of entrance hall which harbours my desk and computer which is what visitors see on their way in
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Sounds like a wonderful transitional space, and I believe the first thing you see in one home sets the tone. In my foyer stands a beautiful, oversized Ficus Lyrata (Fiddle leaf fig) which sets the tone to breathe and relax.
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I love my foyer. I especially love it at night when I turn on my chandelier!
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Lighting can make such a beautiful difference in a space. In my foyer I have a beautiful chandelier, and a floor to ceiling window, that both give off beautiful variations of artifical and natural light.
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Yes my door is floor to literally over half that wall and that see through door and chandelier is life! Especially at night.
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