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Does anyone have any pic of dining room as front entrance to your home? My front room (at front door) - I may consider using as dining room...Need Help deciding. Thanks
JMO. . .last year we went to view a house with the dining room right at the front door. i felt like a "wedding crasher" . it gave the house a wierd flow. and the owners--bless their hearts, had put in new tile floors in that area, the kitchen was beautiful and towards the back of the house, but i just couldn't get past walking right smack dab into the dining area. i just don't think it works, unless like the PP you walk in to the foyer and it's off to the side.
We also flipped rooms - the dining room was supposed to be to the left of the foyer and the living room straight ahead (open living space, no walls), but it just felt really odd to open the door and boom there's the empty table and chairs - a bunch of blank hard surfaces. Switching that space to the living room is more inviting-looking - still empty chairs and such, but the fabrics of the upholstery and the miscellaneous side tables with knickyknackys and so forth all say a warmer welcome. For me, a dining room can be in the front of the house, but only if the front door's opening doesn't make the dining room the first thing one sees.
If you decide against the dining set, you might want to consider a writing desk (in front of the windows) and maybe a chest of some sort on the other wall. I think an upholstered chair would look good with the writing desk, but I really don't like the one in this collection. The chest is cool because it looks like a foyer piece, but it is really a file cabinet. Maybe place a mirror over the chest. A desk would give you a place to put your mail/keys down when you come home, a place to sit and pay bills, and a place for a laptop, and I think it would stilll be dressy enough for a foyer area.
I am standing in opening of kitchen - you are looking at front door
<a href="front door picture by angelcute2me - Photobucket" target="_blank"><img src="http://i720.photobucket.com/albums/ww206/angelcute2me/room003.jpg (broken link)" border="0" alt="front door"></a>
Standing at front door- you can see the opening to the kitchen and another one to a small dining area. When you come in the front door, the living room is to the right. I have had suggestons to use this front room as a foyer, a dining room, or another sitting area. What do you think??
I would flip flop them - make the entry room more of a living room / family room and use the other more seperated room as the dining room and if that room is too large to be just a dining room, I would add a cozy sitting area in there.
Isn't that a dining room adjacent to your kitchen? It looks to me like what you're suggesting would be awkward.
How did you decide to arrange your living room after the other thread?
We also flipped rooms - the dining room was supposed to be to the left of the foyer and the living room straight ahead (open living space, no walls), but it just felt really odd to open the door and boom there's the empty table and chairs - a bunch of blank hard surfaces. Switching that space to the living room is more inviting-looking - still empty chairs and such, but the fabrics of the upholstery and the miscellaneous side tables with knickyknackys and so forth all say a warmer welcome. For me, a dining room can be in the front of the house, but only if the front door's opening doesn't make the dining room the first thing one sees.
I have almost the same set up but my DR is to the right. I have a knee wall to divide the entry from the DR so you don't notice it.
I am thinking of doing the same thing. My front door opens into a fireplace on left, I would like to put dining on right, and then straight ahead is formal living room. My husband has a large family and we need the bigger space for dining. I think you should do whatever works for your family/home. There are ways to make a dining room cozy with candles and fireplace light when guests enter.
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