Entry Makeover

Welcome.

This is our front entry.

Very nice...but plain...and not very inviting.

This is what it looked like when we

purchased the house last summer.

The black color worked with the brick, but

I felt like it recessed the door visually.

We love the front door.

It had wonderful potential.

It's hard to see in the pic

but the windows are leaded clear glass.

They catch the light as it comes in

and play with it on the entry floor.

LOVE it!

I had been considering several colors.

Delft blue...

salmon pink...

rust...

chinese red...

What to do? What to do?

Then I saw Cindy's door... 

over at

Cindys Fractured Fairytale .

My choice was made.

I knew exactly what I wanted.

Blue Eyes was not nearly as certain...

the idea had to grow on him.

The color I chose was

Olympic brand Mexican Moonlight.

A gorgeous Salmon Pink Satin.

Then we added a new brass Baldwin handset.  

...and a Hens and Feathers

bronze Majestic Grape Urn Plaque

... Added ferns in urns

(in my best hip hop sing song, lol)

at each side of the door

...and gorgeous pink toned Caladiums

...some pink impatiens

... a new L.L. Bean waterhog 

doormat in a charcoal leaf pattern.

Love, love, LOVE this doormat!

As long as they make them,

I'll never buy anything else.

We put a fresh coat of black paint on the

iron bench and added a welcoming flag.

Violi!

We still need flowers in the wall planter.

May have to do silk...

everything keeps frying from the heat on that wall.

We'll be adding a Japanese Maple

on the right center bed soon

and a climbing pink rose...

Eden maybe...by the welcome flag.

You can't see them in the pics...

they are hidden behide the Liriope...

but we have planted fragrant Star Jasmine

to the left of the walk by the wall.

Once mature they should fill in that wall like this...

I have two more items I want to add

but they'll have to wait for now.

I'd like this ironwork from

Ballard Designs over the door...

...and something very similar to this on it.

Now our entry says

"Welcome.

We are glad you came to see us."

I'm liking this...

...Much better than this.

What do you think?

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