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Here’s a subject that’s rarely given enough thought in home design…the way you enter and leave your rezidence. We’re just talking about a front door, right? A hole in the wall, a way in and a way out; what more is there to be considered?

It’s easy to overlook the style of the entrance to our houses. We spend our time working on the creation of the exterior and creating the spaces inside the house. But the front door and the spaces involved (connected)  to it occupy an important middle ground between indoors and out and set the stage for the success of the entire custom home design.

The entrance begins to establish your home’s personality and suggests how the rest of the house should be. The entry is a passage from the public realm of the street to the private realm of your family and tells the world something about the people within.

The Entry Sequence

But front doors are just a small part of a sequence of spaces and elements creating a transition fromthe street to the private realm. A successful entry passage considers the placement and style of all of these elements and their relationship to each other.

At first glance from the street, the entry to your home should be seen or at least hinted at to provide a clear destination for your guests. Our old friend the front porch is a great way to indicate clearly where the entrance is to be found. A little mystery isn’t a bad idea here either - change the direction of the path a bit so the scenery changes and the front door moves in and out of view.

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