Since it’s officially summer I thought I’d share my foyer decorated for summer! My foyer is teeny so there’s not much room for furniture. But a couple of years ago I found a skinny hall tree that I painted red and I just love it! It’s one of my favorite thrift store finds. You can see what it looked like before I painted it here.
The halltree gives me just enough space to do a little seasonal decorating! One of the things I love is that it already has a mirror inset in it – so it helps to reflect the light and expand the view of my small foyer.
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I found this basket at Goodwill a few years ago. A reader said it was a fishing basket? The inside is lined with a pretty blue plaid material and it has leather straps. I like to fill it with faux summery flowers and use it on my halltree (in fall I’ll add a few fall flowers and take out the white daisies and probably put a wreath, bunting or something on it instead of the hats). It’s an easy and pretty way to decorate this spot in my home.
I always knew I would hang summer hats off the hooks that are on my halltree. I found these straw hats at the thrift store and embellished them with ribbons, flowers and bits of this and that. I have two more empty hooks and I’d love to get an Edwardian or Victorian summer hat to hang!
On the bottom is a little area to put something. This year I put a lantern filled with baseballs.
So that’s what I did in my foyer to give it a welcoming summery look!
I wish I had a big foyer but my feeling has always been to make the most of what I’ve got. So even if it’s a small space – I try to make it as pretty as I can!
Beautiful summer foyer bursting with my favourite cherry/barn red for presence and pretty yellow and white accents to soften and sweeten! It’s so cheerful, Manuela!!
Have a great week!
Poppy:))
Thanks so much for hosting!!
Hugs,
Debbie
And I also adore your Summer Foyer!! LOVE the red!!
Hugs,
Debbie
Love the changes. The wicker basket and hats look great against the red.
Your whole house is cheerful Manuela! I love the plaid lining in the basket, and the red hall tree looks good no matter what the season. I would never think to display the baseballs inside the lantern, that’s why I love to come here for new ideas. ♥
Beautiful, fresh and welcoming:) Have a blessed week dear Manuela, HUGS!
Proving once again that it doesn’t have to be ” a lot ” to make a statement. How interesting that the fishing basket is lined with fabric. Love, love, love the lantern filled with baseballs.
Yes, I can see why it would be a favorite piece of furniture! I love the color and the size is perfect for your space! The flowers and basket and hat, I might add, look adorable! I am in an apartment for the time being… cannot wait to get back to a house and have fun decorating again!
I love the summer look in your foyer Manuela!
Love that red halltree! It is gorgeous! Also really like the straw hats.
I too, have a small entry and mine is very hard to photograph. But, I still love having it.
Judy
Perfect. Love your color choices.
Love your hall tree, what a great find and the flowers and hats are perfect. Looks so summery. Hugs, Marty
I would feel right at home in your foyer. I know what you mean about finding small pieces. When I find something skinny, I grab it because that is all my house has space for.
I feel you about the small foyer, Manuela! : ) I had a bigger one at our old house but in the new place it is almost ridiculous to call what we have a foyer. I also have a hall tree with a mirror, which definitely does help, especially when I have the main door open. I’ve got one straw hat I keep hanging on it all year long {except for Christmas when I change it to a Santa hat}. Love your lantern filled with baseballs. Such a great idea and something different to use as a “filler”.
Doesn’t matter if your foyer is small – as long as you make it pretty, which you’ve done! I don’t have a foyer at all…you walk straight into my living room! I have that same white lantern, only about half the size.
I remember the hall tree purchase! Love it in red and what else does one need?
Brenda
Love your little summer vignette in the foyer. Your basket is not for fish…I have a wicker fishing creek, and it is shaped much different. What you have is a bicycle basket. I love it!
Well that does make more sense than a fishing basket! Thanks!
I absolutely love your foyer and your hall tree. The red is so cheerful, clean looking and the decorations really make an impression before a person even comes into your home. Great post, I really enjoyed it. I’d sure love to find a great hall tree like that but don’t know where I’d put it as when somebody comes in our place they’re smack dab in living room.
I miss our foyer from our KY house. When our son bought the house to remodel for us he reconfigured the entry, front porch, several other areas. I miss that house and land so much, we had 1 1/2 acres out in country outside Bowling Green, KY. We had a nice sized dining room also. Only problem was climate just didn’t agree with my health, allergies, asthma and arthritis. Total bummer as I loved that place.
Had such a good time styling my foyer and rest of house for that matter. It was a terrific house. Enjoy your foyer and home, seems like you enjoy decorating also. Great way to express our personalities.
Happy Summer
Hi JaneEllen,
Thank you, I do enjoy making a pretty home for my family and friends!
Well I don’t know what your space looks like, but when I lived in a house that had no foyer, I made a little entry area by placing a bookcase as a wall. I placed it so that the back of the bookcase faced into the entry area and I hung a painting off the back. If there had been more room I would have put a narrow table under the painting but I didn’t really have room for that without taking too much space from the living room. Just an idea!
I love your fishing basket with the flowers. What a great addition to your foyer.
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Of course, you know I’d love the red with yellow accents! It’s beautiful. 🙂
love your little entry foyer..
so inviting. and that red is so summery!
Pat, via CLH!
very cute !
I have to agree! Let’s all make the most of what we have! Your foyer is so bright and cheerful. Makes me happy just to look at it. Mimi
I LOVE that hall tree painted red it is so pretty. The lantern filled with baseballs, what a fun idea. What a beautiful space to greet guests.
Cynthia
Thanks Cynthia! It’s a teeny space to greet guests and not easy if it’s more than one person because you can get about 3 people in total in my foyer!
It’s very pretty and summery! The hall tree is wonderful and such a fab color too!
Love it!
Very pretty! I have a hall tree I am trying to get into the entry at my house and Hubs resists, because of raising 3 boys, he is afraid they will tear it up. It is a family antique. I keep holding off decorating the house the way I want until we raise the kids. Lol! Thank you for joining Home Sweet Home!
Sherry