How to maintain and use a carpeted entryway room?
We are renting a new place, so we are limited on what we can do with it. It's 3 bedroom, 2 of which we plan to use for home offices. We love it, except we are not sure what to do with this sort of weird carpeted den/living room that the front door dumps directly into.
Also, the weather is snow, ice, and mud in the winter (why was this built like this!?) so how can we maintain this carpet? There is an entry from the garage onto tile for most of the time, but we, and company, will use the front door sometimes.
My initial thought is putting a runner down from tile to tile along the left side, or an area rug right where the carpet begins. Then a coat rack/shoe storage combo could go against the wall on the left, or possibly on the right to create a more "entryway" feel.
Once I have that settled, how can I use this room and not have it just be really strange. I am really into Lego, and would like to use this space for lego, or use this space for a home office, and make the office into a Lego space. Either way, it seems weird for the front door to drop people into a Lego room or a home office.
For the home office, I will have a desk and a couple bookshelves, but the desk will have 1-2 computer monitors and a laptop, so it will be very clearly a working space. For a Lego room, I want several tables set up in a right angle or U shape to put a semi-permanent Lego city setup. I'll also want some shelving, probably book cases with glass doors or curio cabinets, to keep the dust off the Lego.
Can I make either of those work in an entryway? I'm open to buying some of those really huge Lego style bricks to make dividing walls, for either use of the space, but I'm not sure how to set it up so it looks "right". Also not sure about colors. Maybe light blues, warm light tans, and whites? That brown carpet feels so dark.
Thanks for reading all this! :)
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4 years agoOnce you figure out your style, get some nice area rugs, ones that have a bit of texture to them to grab onto the stuff on the bottom of shoes, and put them down in front of the tiled space and a runner along that wall, where I would put a bench/hall tree to put people's key's, purses, shoes, etc., when they come over. Make that room a reception room, no TV. NO LEGOS.
A couple comfy arm chairs, a settee, a cocktail table, end tables, lamps, an area rug underneath the furniture arrangement, and some art work on the walls. This is the room you entertain your guests in. As in conversation, cocktails before dinner, after dinner games, tea, coffee, etc.
Again: NO LEGOS. Is this your adult home, or your child's playroom/college dorm? Do the Legos in another room.
While not perhaps your style, I think you can see potential...
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I wouldn't mind seeing a big Lego setup in the main entry room! Something like this would be ideal. I realize built-ins couldn't happen for a rental, but a bunch of small Ikea bookcases with a long countertop anchored to the tops would work.
Like, this below was done with Ikea furniture and two countertops cut down to size. Imagine that setup but with bookcases underneath:
Now HERE is a Lego room for adults:
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