Designs Hacks to Make Your Entryway Look Chic and Sophisticated | Foyer Design Ideas

Front foyer, hall, entrance... whatever you call it it's the first thing people see when they step into your home. So make it GREAT!!! Today we're talking about the best dos and don'ts of front entrance design and how you can make your home experience start off on the best note possible.
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[@mistydevillier2197]

YES!! Thank you with the pronunciation of foyer. I say it correctly in my head when people mispronounce it.

[@carolefreeman2544]

I agree! It’s the US that pronouns FOYER incorrectly!

[@mrphoenixgrey]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I had to say it! Lol

[@joanasilva8567]

You all pronounce it incorrectly, as I said in my comment, because you only worry about pronouncing the last syllable, so the word ends up half english and half French, which in my book is even more ridiculous. Just don't worry about stuff like that, pronounce it however you want and don't police people

[@berlinorama]

But there is no accent in foyer;-))

[@t.a.yeah.]

​@@joanasilva8567What is wrong and what is right in language anyway? Language changes, people have accents, rules alter, languages mix ... So yeah, pronounce it like you want. :D

[@devos50]

Do NOT get rid of that plant! I love it!!! I looks gorgeous as a background on your videos, I can even say that it is iconic.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Haha! I custom ordered some furniture for the little vignette so we will see if it still goes with everything once I set it all up :)

[@Noreenlee1]

I love your casually offered expertise (as opposed to someone I gave up watching because he never stops reminding his viewers that he is "educated in design".) Great information, as always.

[@vanillacakes]

I think I know who you’re talking about 🤭 and same- I stopped watching them!

[@merrywalsh2809]

Great talk, DD, even if you can’t pronounce simultaneous. My favorite thing you said is making a statement with the flooring. Not many designers think to mention that, but it really is the most bang for your buck. I am so grateful for the designer who did the reno on the home I bought. Before, the entrance was not even a foyer. She took out the coat closet to create one. She punched up into the attic one foot for a rectangular tray ceiling. She put in a pendant light fixture, and changed out the front doors to ones with horizontal strips of glass. All this gave it a brighter, roomier, stylish entrance. Most flippers would not have gone to the trouble.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Yes!! So glad that some other designers include these details! 🥰 and thank you for watching

[@wcouch8]

I was measuring off the future layout of my foyer when you dropped this video. Getting a snack and sitting to listen before proceeding

[@mrphoenixgrey]

PERFECT timing 🤍🤍

[@AnthonyDeluca]

I’m here for the opening bloopers every time 😂

[@mrphoenixgrey]

The best part honestly 🤣🤍

[@tiffanygaydos8997]

Agreed!! 😂@@mrphoenixgrey

[@Jimenezgyna]

Blown away from all the expertise and wonderful suggestions you provided.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

You are so kind, thank you 🤍🤍

[@stephanie.sunshine]

Thank you so much for this video. ❤ Again you‘re such a help in making decisions and bringing my home to the next level. Your humor is great, please keep it no matter if daddy, granddaddy etc.! You‘re not the only one checking in the mirror before leaving. The foyer definitely is the best place for a large mirror.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

That means so much! Thank you 🙏🏼 so happy you enjoy my channel

[@carolhathaway5168]

I second that comment. Thank you for emphasizing the correct pronunciation of "foyer." An excellent video, as always.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Thanks so much for watching 🤍🤍

[@debrahill2272]

Masterclass was in session..I am foyer-less, I just created a word.😃 When entering my space you step into the living room facing the kitchen sink..Older homes ,you just got to love the Floorplans... ...😀😲

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Oh no! But I feel you, some homes, even condos now a days don’t incorporate a foyer as a drop off point 😅

[@Julia.Mandelbrot]

My foyer has wall-to-wall off-white wool carpeting that continues down a right turn hall to bedrooms and a left turn hall to the living room. Does the infinity carpeting rule out a nice tile entry choice? Same question applies to my infinity ceiling and potential dramatic entry ceiling..will it chop up the space too badly? Love your style and love u to pieces for all the fabulous tips and tricks that are helping me so very much to re-design my pandemic purchase of a MCM /spanish house badly in need of relevancy. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@juverparadox]

Lacking a proper foyer in my previous home, when I found a new townhouse with a beautiful and well defined foyer with an 11 foot ceiling, I knew it was my new home. I have an ultra modern chandelier, a console table and a big canvas painting, it looks amazing. I would like to paint it a darker color, but I am not sure…

[@mrphoenixgrey]

If you have good natural light, darker is always my biased choice 🤍🤍

[@The_Smith]

Great video DD, my dream home would have a proper foyer, isolated from the rest of the house so I wouldn't have to let people all the way into my home unless I wanted to, in Summer that's what the veranda is for but winter . . . well I'm not that tough . . . AND YES! on a mirror, I have a mirror on the wall on the doorknob side of the door and I've gotten so many comments on how nice it is. Plus yes I do look in it when leaving the house after coming in from the shop so I don't look like I'm in blackface before going uptown . . .

[@lindakleiner5734]

❤ I found you channel awhile ago and have loved watching. Love your “Dad” humour maybe cause I’m Aussie 😂. You’ve actually got me thinking about changing our entry. Hubby won’t be happy 😂😂

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Hahaha! Thank you so much! So happy my what I categorize as dry humor is well received

[@ameliaclark5792]

Yeah someone that pronounces foyer properly! I knew you were Canadian as soon as I heard it❤️🇨🇦

[@maryburton9308]

Great advice..

[@williamsauve6058]

Love Love Love . Agree with all you say. Cant stop Laughing . Ottawa Loves you

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Thank you for always watching 🥰🥰🥰

[@tamaramartin4015]

i hate mirrors, but the foyer in our next house isn't big enough for anything else, so i'll have to suck it up and just do it. And i know that faux plants and flowers aren't quite the same as the real thing, but for they're great for those of us with allergies (and we don't have to worry about our pets getting into them.) Btw, what's that sound i hear in the background? Oh dear, it's your poor plant that just found out it's getting fired. Poor little plant dude 😭😭😇

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Haha! I know. I have some new pieces coming in soon enough for the background to make it better. I got sick of the faux plant 🤣

[@Rubyglenn27]

Love this advice - especially lighting

[@mrphoenixgrey]

It’ll make the biggest impact :)

[@smack6030]

Great tips! Love your channel.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

That means so much! Thank you 🤍

[@ChrisstinaMorgan]

Perfect foyer for me is very close to square room. Left wall has minimum 2meters long soft top bench where you can drop your bag, jacket, sit and remove your shoes and opposite to it wall is wall to wall closet with seamless floor to ceiling mirrored doors. So you can perfectly see yourself while getting ready to live and while arrived and have plenty storage to pack shoes and jackets away immediately together with bags, hats, sunglasses, umbrellas whatever...

[@lorrainebonilla8052]

Such good advice always .

[@kathyhedigan1485]

Love your videos and they are so informative and FUN!!! Remodeling a home with 5" wood plank flooring. I always thought the flooring should run vertical away from the front door/foyer into your living space rather than horizontal. The home has open sight lines from front door through living room, dining room and family room with views throughout. Seems line vertical is where my eyes should go. Please help!!

[@tinamcivor2996]

Your advice is great ĺand I'm enjoying your delivery and thinking "Hey is this guy Canadian?" 😆

[@Cocolicious08758]

Good lawd 6’ 4” and handsome 🔥

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Awe shucks, 🥰

[@rockshot100]

Daddy, OK, but where should I store MY harnesses and leashes? Any tips? (-comments help your algorithm.)

[@rockshot100]

Daddy great post as usual, and especially the examples shown. BTW, it is not "mere", but MIR-Ror. You must be from Michigan, but won't hold that against you. LOL 🥰 Opps! I mean Canada.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

My Canadian twang comes out sometimes 🤣

[@rockshot100]

LOL@@mrphoenixgrey

[@nathalie_desrosiers]

Thanks for pointing out the right way to say *Foyer* . -From A French speaking person.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

I had to say it!! I’m amazed that so many people don’t know the difference! 🤍

[@rockshot100]

@@mrphoenixgrey The Brits say, FIL-et for FIL-Lay. Americans most likely don't say, FOY-ye. It sounds too grand for a little entryway. It is pretentious, in a sense. Same with "VAAAZ", instead of Vase.

[@whiteserpent6753]

@@rockshot100 In my experience, yes, we would pronounce it the French way in the US, but I can’t speak for everywhere because regional dialects vary. That said, in this region, we would more likely call it an entry or entryway unless it’s a grand entryway with high ceilings- in which case, obviously only the French word would do.

[@rockshot100]

@@whiteserpent6753 Exactly, what YOU said. Yes, like an entrance with a huge rounded staircase with a big round table, etc. I would not dare call my entry a Foy-YE. Mainly because I don't have one, well, ...that is one reason.

[@rockshot100]

Yes, Daddy, and you would be amazed at how many people don't know to come in out of the rain. I know I am...constantly.@@mrphoenixgrey

[@rockshot100]

Meant to say that eucalyptus is a GREAT foliage thing to have in your house. I've had the same branches for 2-3 years, but it gets dusty and looses its scents after a while. I have been either rinsing it off or use that shark steam thing outside to get the dust off. Thanks for reminding me. Also, lots of pussy willow buds (not the flowers) are not that hard to keep dust free for a few months and you can get like 3' branches. (to create a wonderful vertical "moment".)

[@merrywalsh2809]

I live in a pine, cedar and eucalyptus forest. The scents are amazing. I can just take a walk, snip some branches, and bring them in. I do put them in my foyer.

[@rockshot100]

I envy you! Sounds like paradise, better than living in a rose garden. May I ask where you live? @@merrywalsh2809

[@susanhagen4555]

You're simply awesome!!!

[@WomanRoaring]

I grew up saying Foyer the way you do but did you know that in French foyer means fireplace? My French Canadian hubby was confused about what I was talking about 😂. My MIL asked what the light switch turned on because I labeled the one with 4 switches and I was like oh the entry 😂 . I won't say foyer with an ER sound but French speakers will be confused.

[@TheSushmaHomeSellingTeam]

As they say, first impression, lasts. So might as well make our front foyer as welcoming and clean as possible same with what Phoenix is showing here. 😉✨

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Thank you 🙏🏼 🥰

[@thehahnhouse27]

Great video! Thank you so much!

[@decoratingwithjoshaywoods7580]

THANK YOU FOR PRONOUNCING FOYER CORRECTLY!!!! Being from Louisiana hearing people pronounce foyer incorrectly irks my soul especially realtors and other designers!!!!

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Every-time I hear it incorrectly it takes a week off of my life. 🤣🤣🤣

[@decoratingwithjoshaywoods7580]

@@mrphoenixgrey 😂😂😂not a week now!!!! I’m dead 🤣😂🤣😂

[@MariaSousa-md4ok]

If I have a long entry goes into the living room should floor be the same.

[@helenstella2226]

I have a minute foyer that melds immediately with the open concept living room. So my storage is a bit distributed - i have put up wall hanging storage for coats and a tiny bench for shoe storage and for sitting, but its just a bit further away. Sigh. And with the funny angled ceiling merging into the rest, wallpaper isnt an option. Hm.

[@danitapowell2291]

I’m from Kentucky, it’s a for-rer

[@bialistock8946]

You would shudder if you ever saw my entrance. So so bad.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

That’s why you got me to help 🤍

[@tslilbearshoppe9870]

I wish more people looked at themselves before they leave their homes lol Love your vids.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Hahahaha! Agreeed 🤣🥰

[@jasonkay6919]

how can we see your dog leashes? asking for a friend

[@marianawolf1570]

You should let your hair grow, I bet you’d look amazing

[@mrphoenixgrey]

My hair used to by down past my chest years ago! I think on my instagram if you go back far enough you can see it 🙌🏼 I miss it some days

[@lisapanger9460]

I have no foyer or rather too much. My home opens up to a huge space flanked by living room, dining room , and stairway. Yet it’s so plain because there are no walls to decorate.

[@user-tp3tv5cw1j]

Si MUL tany ously LOL!

[@deydrypena3763]

What you with small foyer 😅

[@einahsirro1488]

I'm sorry. You had 69 likes, and I ruined it. But someone was going to ruin it. Why not me?

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Hahaha you get my type of humor, and I like it 👍🏼

[@robinbirdj743]

Foyer IS French, but there’s no accent (pronounce them A- goo OR grav). Also- it’s Sime-ul-TANE-E-us. Try it :) You’ve got this, granddaddy! ❤

[@deelehey2827]

No shoes in the foyer. Put your shoes, coats and purses where they belong.

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Agreed. If you have the room for them, hide it all away

[@lsamoa]

lol I like how you try to correct how people say foyer but still say it wrong😉It's ok though, as long as people know what you're talking about.

[@gracegamboa1819]

❤❤❤

[@mrphoenixgrey]

🥰🤍🥰

[@chernobilja]

video starts at 1.34

[@tombrett5553]

Searching OF 😂

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Shhhhhhh 🤫

[@cookedfruit]

reading these tips instead of talking to viewers creates a sort of disconnect

[@mrphoenixgrey]

Thanks for the feedback. But I need to write down all my talking points to make sure I get everything across that I need to

[@sandrahelland2419]

Hahahahahaha

[@Staceyintampa]

Why cant i speak? Lololol

[@joanasilva8567]

If you're going to be picky about pronunciation (which is a bit silly for non French speakers, everyone is allowed to have an accent), then you should try and say the whole word right, not just the last syllable. But in my experience as a French speaker who moved to a non speaking country, it sounds weird and arrogant to do so

[@mrphoenixgrey]

I don’t think we can consider a é an accent, it just the pronunciation of a letter itself.

[@cassidee1473]

As an arrogant non-french human I will henceforth pronounce Grand Prix with a hard "x".

[@joanasilva8567]

@@cassidee1473 😆