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how to decorate a weird room
Okay, so we are buying a house. We don't close for a few more weeks, but we were thinking about all the stuff we will need and how to decorate, and I was trying to add stuff we might need to our wedding registry, and my fiance and I are both kind of stumped about what do do with the entry.
It is a really small house, the front door is on the side of the house at the very front. That opens into a really long hall that runs the length of the house. To nowhere. The door into the rest of the house touches the corner of the front door into the entryway. So we have a room that is roughly 3 feet wide by like 22 feet long, that no one will ever walk though. The people who owned the house before us just put boxes of junk in there, but I don't want the first thing people see of our house to be junk. I also don't want to leave it empty since the house is so small already. My Fiance said we should just put some patio chairs in there and a small table. I thought maybe cover one wall in shelves and have a bench with coat hooks. If all else fails, we could make it our library? Does anyone have a stupid room like this in their house? Any suggestions? Any thoughts as to why the heck they wouldn't just build the door on the other side so the hallway had a purpose?
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Re: how to decorate a weird room
Wow. I have never heard of or seen that before.
My thought is to use the first 6-7 feet as your entry with some shelving or hooks for coats, etc. and a bench-like thing for people to sit down on. And some artwork and a live plant or two.
And, if the long wall is able to withstand it, load-bearing-wise, can you remove parts of it and use the space to expand your kitchen? Living Room? Dining area? Bathroom? Closet? I'd wait on decorating it and first see if you could use it to capture more square footage for your other rooms.
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I'd use less than 1/2 of it as the mudroom, and (unless you have ample storage in an attic and/or basement) I'd put up a door to separate the rest and use it as a storage room.
If you have tons of storage space already, I love your idea of using it as a library/ mudroom, with benches and maybe a cozy wingback chair at the far end, but I feel like this would work best with very small, visually "light" pieces- no giant wood bookshelves, kwim? IE: bookcases with open sides, and benches with long legs, and big mats on any artwork hung in there. Could you put windows in the inside wall, to bring more natural light into your other spaces? (I've seen that done, it looks good when done right.)
(and ftr, I've seen that tons of times. MANY of the 20's bungalows I looked at when purchasing this house had that same or similar configuration. No clue why, but I've seen it!)
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This. Is there any way you could post pictures? I'm really curious about what this looks like, and it will help us give you ideas.
have you had a home inspection, he should be able to tell you if it's load bearing and it you could tear down. If you could tear down the back part and expand whatever room is on the other side (or make an extra closet to enter from that side), you would just need to put up 3 feet of drywall leaving enough for a little mudroom.
You could also put up some drywall anyways closing off part of it and then adding various racks to make it a closet or even a pantry
do you have kids, would it make a good play room?