The Ideal Place for Prints on Glass: The Forgotten Room

On the surface, interior design seems very simple. You decide on a concept and then have fun making your home pretty. In reality, once you dig down into it design becomes a maze of ideas and concepts and possibilities. For some it’s exciting, for others it’s intimidating, but one thing is true for everyone: There are going to be blind spots, places you just don’t think about until you’re nearly done with your home decorating project and realise you’ve completely forgotten one room: The entryway.

Call it a Foyer, call it that tiny space where you open the front door and leave your umbrella on a rainy day – it’s almost always the last place people think to decorate, and almost always done as an afterthought, and it shows. The ideal weapon to use in your entryway? The forgotten interior design element: prints on glass.

Let There Be Light

There are a few reasons you may have a blind spot about your entryway:It’s utilitarian. More than any other space in your home, it’s not suited for any other use.

• It’s utilitarian. More than any other space in your home, it’s not suited for any other use.
• You don’t spend much time there. No one has tea in their entryway. You pass through it without paying much attention at all.
• It’s awkward. Somewhere deep in your brain you know it’s a small, oddball space and you don’t want to deal with it.

But your entryway has power – first of all, it’s the first place visitors will see in your home. Secondly, it’s generally a very well-lit place, with windows in and around your door. Even in attached homes with few windows, the entryway tends to be one of the brightest, airiest places in the house. As a result, far from being a place deserving of your blind spot, you should be thinking about how to make it pop – and prints on glass are the ideal design element to use here.

Greeting Visitors with Prints on Glass

Using art printed on glass in your entryway has a lot of distinct advantages:

• Light. Glass reflects and bends the light streaming in from your door and windows, and since the entryway is generally fairly small this light can have a huge impact, dazzling people as they walk in. The prints used infuse the glass – and thus the light – with colour and subtle effects.
• Durability. Since the entryway exposes everything to sunlight and a bit of damp as people stamp feet and shake umbrellas, many materials won’t last long – but glass will. With just a bit of basic maintenance, your art on glass will last as long as you want it to – at minimum until the next time you get the decorating bug.

You’ll only have a blind spot once. The next time you decorate your home, you’ll remember that panic moment when you realised you hadn’t come up with a plan for the entryway, and you’ll be certain to make one. And when you do, click here and we’ll create the high-quality glass pieces that will finish that space off so it won’t be forgotten again anytime soon.