Entryway Furniture
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Modern Entryway Furniture
A mudroom or entryway, while also being a functional transition point from outdoors to indoors, also serves as a first impression of your home. As such, furnishing and decorating an entryway involves just as much care as furnishing and decorating other spaces in your home, even though it’s not a place for entertaining. An entryway is ideally both welcoming and stylish, a compelling preview of the design choices made throughout the rest of your home. At Design Within Reach, shop modern entryway furniture, including entryway storage and accessories, that will invite guests inside with comfort and style.
Types of Modern Entryway Furniture
Console Tables
Console tables, or entryway tables, are extremely narrow tables made for convenient but low-profile storage in entryways, hallways, and other tight spaces. Many console tables are entryway tables with storage components, such as drawers, shelves, or cabinets. Unlike other pieces of storage furniture, like storage benches, media consoles, or cabinet units, console tables are designed to take up as little floor space as possible while still providing essential storage for on-the-go necessities. Their narrow profile makes them excellent as hallway storage tables as well. Console tables are also suitable for placement behind long sofas and can even make low-profile desks in a pinch.
Benches & Stools
Invite guests to take off their shoes upon arrival with a convenient entryway bench or stool placed by the front door. These modest pieces of entryway furniture are essential for creating a welcoming atmosphere the moment someone enters your home, as they provide a comfortable place for visitors to sit and take their time to remove their outerwear before moving deeper into your home. Modern entryway benches and stools can be as simple as sleek, wood platforms with minimal wooden legs, or visually compelling, with organic shapes, hand-crafted slats, or compelling material combinations. Entryway storage benches even include built-in shelves, cabinets, or compartments for neatly storing shoes and other accessories.
Entryway Storage
There’s no understating the importance of convenient and accommodating storage furniture throughout the home, certainly in the case of the entryway or mudroom. Entryways see everything that enters and exits your home, and thus must have enough storage to accommodate those items that don’t have a permanent home elsewhere in your house. Entryway storage can take many forms, including storage benches, console tables, cabinet units, shelving units, coat hooks, and more. For shoes, consider a low shoe rack or storage bench. For miscellaneous on-the-go items, think about a catch-all dish atop a console table with drawers for less-used items. For outerwear, you can’t go wrong with a coat rack or coat hooks.
Coat Racks & Umbrella Stands
Designed specifically to prevent coats, scarves, bags, and hats from piling up in your entryway, coat racks are essential entryway storage solutions. Some coat hooks install into the wall for sturdy storage that won’t take up extra floor space, while other coat racks, also called coat trees, are freestanding storage solutions that don’t involve making holes in your walls. The most involved type of coat rack, also called a hall tree, is a ladder-like unit that usually incorporates one or more built-in shelves, several coat hooks, and/or a bench to sit on.
How to Choose Entryway Furniture
Get started furnishing your entryway with the utmost essentials: a place for guests to sit and remove their shoes, a place for those shoes to go, and a place for outerwear. Pair an entryway bench with a shoe rack or basket, or go with a storage bench so that visitors can store their shoes conveniently in the bench. If you’re tight on space, opt for an entryway stool instead. If you can spare the floor space, place an entryway bench facing a console table with cubbies, cabinets, or shelves for shoes and other items.
For coats, the best storage solution depends on the size of your space. If you’ve got a lot of room in your entryway, go with a hall tree with a built-in bench and coat hooks or place a coat tree in a corner where it won’t be in the way of foot traffic in and out of your home. If you’re tight on space, think about wall hooks or over-the-door coat hangers that will make the most of your entryway walls and doors.
Don’t forget to accessorize! Top a console table with a pretty catch-all dish for keys, wallets, and other miscellaneous items. Pair with a large vase filled with bright flowers to create an inviting atmosphere right away. Hang a wall mirror above the console table for a convenient place for your household and its guests to touch up as they enter or exit your home.
On the floors, place a welcome mat or entryway runner to catch debris before it can make its way into your home. Position an umbrella stand beside the door so guests have a place to put their wet umbrellas on rainy days.