HA find a reason to give her a consequence. How tall are the ceilings? Just a suggestion below and hopefully to give you a bit of incentive. I used an Asian type door pull (8" diameter)

on the closet doors rather than the typical french handles.

Only caution about lavendar - paint samples in different areas and see how the sun affects it. I grew up in a lavendar and cream bedroom and the color changed dramatically during the day.

Oh...that was just incentive for getting the job done I'm sure anything looks better after staring at the blasted walls that looked like some one ate too many flowers and used the walls to purge.

Crown molding would be great! And yes, Glass knobs you can even find old amethyst ones. - I'm bored with french handles and grey.

Any color combo can work as long as you keep it in the same design theme. If you do plan to incorporate the curio's I would tend toward a traditional leaning to Asian theme.

Good to hear about changing your mind about lavender. It will limit your options. Perhaps consider painting the back of your door black and just going with a neutral - really stunning and timeless and then once you add a rug, console table and art...the room's accessorizing and features will be the hightlight with the walls feeling airy and a backdrop.

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I love the Asian door pulls that Lucidos posted earlier. I agree with her, do not replace those doors as they are surely better quality than many. Black door is a great idea too.

Unfortunately, I grabbed the lamp off of a UK distributor. That does not mean that a local lighting company couldn't order it. https://www.lightingcompany.co.uk/ceiling-lights-c3/lighting-for-low-ceilings-c11/the-lighting-book-philomena-antique-brass-floral-low-ceiling-light-p500

The knobs you can get from Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/173593721/lavender-glass-knobs-dresser-knobs

To find something really unique, in a glass knob, search your local restoration, architectural salvage or antique furniture shop.

You have a world of color options and styles to choose from for your entry. I suggest you go back to my statement of finding the art or the rug that moves you and building the colors and styling from there.

This is probably obvious, but if you do a color as opposed to a neutral in the foyer then that color generally is part of the color scheme for the rest of the house?

Not always Soosun you really only need to keep viewable rooms in the same or compatible colors. But as you walk through the common areas of a home it should flow not jar the senses in styling from one room to another. The images below may not be your style but they show how you can alter colors as long as they play nice together.

The only color I see that is actually a color in the last pictures is the last blue room and that isn't a foyer. So I hold by what I say that a color in the foyer should be repeated as part of a color scheme if only as a pillow or two. You would not do a pale green foyer and then never see it again. If you use a neutral like white cream beige grey is it less noticeable. And of course 'colors' can be any thing in the rainbow, but they should be repeated or you will look like a furniture store with all disparate colors next to each other in the displays. Just sayin'.

Ohh!! Soosun I thought you meant the walls and basic furniture style not pulling colors through rooms.

Rochel...Now you have my curiosity peeked....let's see!

Move the image to the desktop...you may have to email it to yourself. Once it is on your computer in a place you can find it (not floating around on the internet somewhere). You can upload it easily.

No I meant wall color; I thought that is what we were talking about, wall color? Sorry to be confusing.

I'm a little late to this discussion but would like to add a few comments and possibly motivate you to continue with your updating. I recently updated my hallway/foyer/staircase which looked very similar to yours and while it was a lot of work, it came out great. We did the work ourselves and it took months (we do have a life besides work on the house!), but the cost was very low. Some of what I learned:

1-After you remove the wallpaper, clean ALL of the paste from the walls. Let it dry thoroughly, lightly sand, and seal the walls with Zinnzer Gardz primer made specifically for this task. Then you can repair/skim coat (can be hired out--wish I did) and prime and paint. I used a combination of steam, wall paper remover, fabric softener, etc. to get it down. Scoring the paper is important, but there is no silver bullet to remove it. People who say removal is easy have removed wallpaper that was properly installed on a sealed and primed wall. Not the case for most of what is out there. Just lots of patience and hard work. I completed my job in small sections at a time just to not be overwhelmed by the work.

2-The spindles on the stairwell can be easily painted and should be. What a difference! Just mask, sand lightly, clean, prime, and paint. This is a job that can be done in small sections.

3-Your closet doors are bi-fold and are very easily replaced with a screw driver at the most. Go to a lumber yard or big box store and look at what is available. They will show you how they are mounted.

Here are some before/after pics.

Do not use the paper tiger....you will damage the drywall & that's another whole can of worms. Good luck I love lucidos's ideas for door handles

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Platter for keys on top of table & add some big decor books between the heads.

Oh so strong and vibrant accent pieces. nice mood!

Keep looking for the perfect piece. Uttermost makes beautiful accent pieces and they have 10-12 inch deep cabinets. The Uttermost console shown above is pretty marvelous too. When I see pieces like this it reminds me why Martha Stewart and Sarah Richardson have so many different houses! This will make you think out of the box which leads to some really wonderful design applications.

Also a demi-lunne table (spelling not sure about) can be a great piece for spots that you want to not be painful if you run into them!

A long narrow one (8" to 10") or a shelf well above her eye level would do.

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I think I spent $28 on my Rival steamer with a long hose. I might have to refill it a little more often, but it works great on more than just clothes. However, I believe you said you got one specifically for wallpaper removal. I would remove it one area at a time, so it's not an overwhelming job. I do love the idea of the stripping party . . . you could call it a "strip and bodies paint" party (the hands on the arms of the bodies will hold the brushes and rollers to do the painting on the walls!).

The metal thing you get hurt on is probably the wall edging that is used on drywall and then "mudded" and then sanded before painting. You can get bull nose edging, which is rounded (I have it on all my corners and prefer it!).

Definitely use separate tinted primer. Your walls will probably soak it up and then the paint will go on more evenly. The hardest part of painting is like any job -- getting started! The second hardets part is the preliminary work of taping what you don't want painted (ceiling edges, etc.). I like to use plastic gloves when I paint so I clean up myself easier! :) Paint is not that expensive . . . hiring a pro is and this is easily a DIY project because you have regular sized walls (I have some 18' tall walls that would need scaffolding, etc. and I would not do that, but I'd still paint 9' or 10' walls).

LampsPlus.com is a great place to find any kind of lamps or chandeliers, and you can buy them online and have them delivered to your house.

Best of luck!

Looks better already!

Crown Molding nice and no more counting flowers on the wall...Wait that's a song.

You have been a busy girl!

Is there supposed to be a picture. Is the entry complete?

Can u post a link to it for us?

looks much better, now you have a clean slate to start from

So much nicer...and I'm sure you feel the effort was worth it. It certainly looks better and now you can appreciate the hall's lovely features. I really like the paint color and your rug and even the floors look better.

Perfect! You did a magnificient job.