Please Remove Your Shoes & A Clients Foyer

I can't say that this was my idea. I got the idea from Pinterest where there is a wealth of great ideas. I was initially overwhelmed with decorating a huge home by myself, but a friend that I helped decorate her new home recently told me, "You are the Queen of putting personality into a home!" (Thanks Lindsay) That is all it took to spur me on to this new project. So here is how I put personality into the foyer of this home.





To surprise my client who has a 4 month old boy, I asked her to put his jeans on him, roll them up a time or two and stand him up so I could snap this picture.



I then loaded it onto Picnik.com and neutralized some of the color. I added a border and the text in a font that I liked. You could do this with any photo editing program.



Here's the real sweet deal. CanvasPeople.com has a special where you can get an 8 x 10 of any picture turned into a canvas on a wood frame for FREE with a $14.95 postage and handling fee. So I sent this to them online and in a week I had it.

Now it reminds the people that enter, to remove their shoes, in a humorous way.

 I just added a wood easel and it was ready to go into the corner shelving by the front door.

Let's talk about the framed words WELCOME next to the corner cabinet. I had this space to fill and luckily, I found these alpha letters on Etsy.

I framed them individually so they would take up more space and hung them vertically in this two story room.

After that I found a name monogram that I liked on Ebay and purchased that in two colors of vinyl to go above the doorway to the formal living room.

This is how the room looked before I started decorating.

There is more to this room that I have yet to finish like a large mirror and bench and decor on a buffet in this room, but soon I will share with you the beautiful completed formal living room, so stay close.

NOTE: You should be able to click on most of the pictures to enlarge to see further details.

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