For a long time, we’ve had a low coffee table operating as our entry way table.  Coming up to knee height, it was kind of an awkward way to welcome someone into our home.  Added bonus?  The odd height of our mirror and artwork, hung from the same hooks of previous owners stuff, which was most definitely proportioned differently.

I’ve wanted a more appropriate table or console for our foyer for quite a while, and we’ve finally got it!  Thanks to my generous mother, we inherited this wonderful console from her:

I think it looks SO wonderful!  Not only does it fit the space better, but it the drawers are an added bonus – now we have a place to store a few pens and scratch paper for writing down notes, and probably a few other odds and ends will find their way in there I’m sure.  Plus, I love having a little bit of shelf space for a few pretty items :)

On top of the console is a basket we use for mail, a pink depression glass vase, a small wooden basket we got on our honeymoon in Jamaica for dropping keys, and our weather thing-y.  On the first shelf, there’s a white compote I snagged at a garage sale for $1, a stack of various art books topped with a metal candle holder DH got in Hong Kong (I think?), and a white coral tea pot we received as a wedding gift (the lid is permanently stuck, so it is relegated to being looked at – ha!).  Across the bottom – which I’m still working on – is a brass apple bell (sorely in need of some books or something to beef it up), a ceramic blue dish that was a wedding gift, and a stack of various books.

I’m thinking a small framed picture on one of the shelves might be nice, or a basket, just to add add some texture.  The apple bell is looking a little sad and sorry all by it’s lonesome, and I’m not sure about the blue dish either.  I’m sure I’ll keep fiddling with it for a while until I like it :)

The next thing I’m hoping to get done is to add a frame to a mirror we got for free at a garage sale, and hang it above the table where the purple painting is.  Then we’ll probably ditch the ill-placed skinny mirror in favor of some framed art, or possible a different painting.

And let’s not think too much about the other side of the foyer, ‘kay?  Because it is kind of a sad situation.  The coat “monster” is the only functional place for coats besides a few hooks in the side entry for the house, so it stays.  Though I’m sure we could prune down the number of outerwear choices we have available in the summer.

The coffee table under the window works okay, though I’d be willing to consider other options.  We’d like to avoid blocking most of the window if possible, so that limits the height of whatever we put there.  One thing I’ve thought of is maybe a chair and a small table?  We don’t really need a bench since we already have one…

See?  And that table and picture are totally not ours – I haven’t taken a new picture that doesn’t have Christmas stuff all over the place, so just imagine this being bare with a spiny plant sticking out towards the bench.  :-)

Anywho, welcome to our new and slightly improved foyer!  I’m grateful for the table upgrade, and excited for the next step – MIRROR!

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