Makeshift entryway ideas for a city apartment

An entryway serves as a landing strip, a place where you can sort the clutter coming into your home. Most city apartments, however, lack a separate entryway with the front door opening directly into the living room. With a few items and creative placement, you can shape one out easily.

• In hallway design, Use the wall adjacent the door to fashion a vignette. A narrow console or shelf gives you a horizontal surface to work with while a mirror reflects light, opening-up the space.
  
  
• Provide storage for keys and mail like a decorative bowl or box as well as hidden storage for shoes. A slim shoe rack can double up as a seat with the top tier being used as a table.
  
  
• Line up a narrow rug or runner with the door and use a low hanging pendant light or a fancy chandelier to illuminate this zone.
  
  
• To further define the area, use a sheet of wallpaper behind your console or paint this section a different colour. If possible, you could create a shallow alcove to visually separate this zone from the living room.
  
  
• Use decorative elements for a sense of symmetry. Create a visual demarcation with framed artwork or photographs suspended from floor to ceiling or make a green wall of planters arranged in the same way.
  
  
• An open bookshelf or screen placed perpendicular to the door can be used as a partition, creating a sense of a corridor without cutting it off from the rest of the room.