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Open landing
A console, a mirror and a light against the first wall you see — an entry marked by furniture and a change of floor, without moving a single wall.
Foyers
The first ten
seconds of your home.
Nobody budgets for the entryway. It's four square feet that every single guest experiences — and in most homes it's a shoe rack and a bare bulb. Done properly it's the cheapest way to make a home feel considered.
Why botherFour square feet
Four square feet
everyone sees.
The foyer costs less than a sofa and it's the only part of your home every visitor experiences. Even a flat that opens straight into the living room can have one — a half-height unit or a change of flooring makes an entry zone without walling anything off.
10 sec
What a guest judges you in
350mm
Shoe storage depth
400mm
Bench, or nobody uses it
The first sentence
your home says.
The ten secondsSix moves in the
Six moves in the
time the door swings.
An entry is a sequence, not a room — six things happen between the door swinging and you being properly inside. Get the order right and the cheapest corner of the home is the one that feels most considered.
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The first wall
The bits under the welcomeWhat holds up
What holds up
to a thousand arrivals.
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Entry flooring
The floor that takes the grit
The threshold meets every wet slipper and street shoe first. We lay a hard, darker, easy-clean surface here so the monsoon doesn't show on it by day one.
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Layered light
Warm, low, a little drama
A single tubelight kills an entry. We layer a warm overhead, a lamp on the console and a wash on the feature wall, so the first thing you feel is welcome.
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Console power
A point for keys and chargers
One discreet socket at the console for a lamp, a phone charger and the doorbell chime — so the entry isn't the one surface in the home with no power.
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Threshold detail
The dust line, handled
The gap under the front door is where dust and draught get in. We detail the threshold and a recessed mat well so grit stops at the door, not three feet inside.
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Shoe airflow
Louvred so it never announces itself
A sealed shoe cabinet becomes a smell by August. We louvre the doors or leave a vented back and base gap, so air moves through and nothing festers.
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Corner durability
Edges built for the daily knock
The entry takes bags, buggies and elbows every single day. We use tougher edges and finishes here than anywhere else, because this corner gets the most abuse.
Where it livesThree ways to make
Three ways to make
an entry.
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Screened divider
A slatted screen or a half-height unit between the door and the sofa — carves out an arrival zone and stows shoes without closing the space in.
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Full foyer
A proper hall with a bench, closed shoe storage and a drop zone — the whole arrival sequence given its own room where the plan allows.
In motion
Everything happens
in the first breath.
The foyer is pure sequence — the door swings, the far wall lands, shoes come off, keys go down, one look in the mirror and you're in. We design those ten seconds as an order of events, not a grid of furniture.
The sequenceDesign the order,
Design the order,
not just the objects.
An entry works when each move has somewhere to happen — sit, unshod, stow, drop keys, glance, go. Miss one step and the whole ritual collapses onto the nearest flat surface, which is usually your dining table.
- A bench so shoes come off sitting down
- Closed, ventilated storage 350mm deep
- A 100mm ledge for keys, cards and post
- A side-lit mirror on the way out
No hallway?You can have a foyer
You can have a foyer
without a wall for it.
Most Bangalore flats open straight into the living room — that's a zoning problem, not a dead end. A slatted screen, a change of flooring or a half-height unit carves out an entry that stops the door opening onto your sofa.
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A slatted screen that filters the view, not the light
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A flooring change to mark the threshold
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A half-height unit doing storage and division at once
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Reversible where a rental needs it to be
Got an entry doing nothing?
Send us a photo of the door and what's around it — we'll show you the entry it could be, and roughly what it costs.
Gallery
Built, photographed, handed over
Foyer · Koramangala
Entry · Sarjapur
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Four square feet. It's the bit of the house everyone comments on.
Swati & Gaurav — 4 BHK, Hebbal
Questions
Asked often
Yes — a half-height unit, a change of flooring, or a slatted screen makes an entry zone without walling anything off. It stops the front door opening directly onto your sofa, which is the real problem.
350mm takes most adult shoes standing. Ventilate it — a closed, unventilated shoe cabinet is unpleasant within a week — and put a 400mm bench beside it or nobody uses it properly.
Directly facing the front door, many people avoid it. On a side wall it's fine and genuinely useful — it doubles the apparent width of a narrow entry. We'll place it wherever you're comfortable.
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