Foyer Makeover | Interior Design | Jennifer Decorates

Hello everybody, I'm Jennifer and in this video I'm going to show you the transformation that I gave our foyer so stay tuned. So I want to show you our foyer makeover and I've kind of talked about this before in another video. We bought this house two years ago. It was built in the early 90s so we're just doing, like everybody else, we're just doing a little bit at a time. Everything is finished in the foyer except for the floors. We have not redone the but let me tell you about a few of the things we did. One of the things we did is we replaced the door with this glass inset door because I wanted more light but what we didn't have, we had these side lights and they were clear glass and they drove both Scott and I crazy because we knew if someone came to the front door they could peek in and see us. So instead of spending a lot of money and replacing them, this is a vinyl clean and I have a video on how I did this. It was super easy, pretty cheap and when you step back you cannot tell that all of this was not put together at one time. One of my favorite things. So on each side of the door I put these metal lanterns and inside I put the moving flameless candles. They run on a timer, they come on at night at the same time, turn off in four hours and it really puts a really neat ambiance in the foyer and I've got one on each side because I like symmetry. Now I have two windows in the foyer and I didn't want a lot of drapes to cover the window. In fact, I didn't want a lot of color but I wanted something to soften this space so I had these drapes made. They're just a white linen. We actually sell them in our store. They're quick ship panels but what I did to give them a custom look is I purchased, see this on the end? They call it tape and I purchased three yards of it and I actually used fabric glue to glue it onto this drape to give it a custom look. So we put a foyer light in and I had to have a semi-flush both because my husband and sons are super tall and it was black iron and after a little bit I thought I've got a lot of iron going on. I really would like to pull in an old brass look so I looked online to purchase them and then I thought I like the fixture I have. I just want it to be a different color so I purchased what's called Rub and Buff. I made another video about that and for just a couple dollars I made this light fixture look like I found it in an antique store. When we knew our contract was good on this house and we bought it we had a few months before we were going to move in the very first piece of furniture I knew I wanted was this foyer piece. It's a new piece but it looks old and it just looks like a piece I inherited. Did not but I love it. The next thing we did during quarantine when we're bored my husband did the shiplap. Let me show you a picture of what it was like we painted it white. Well after looking at I guess I don't leave well enough alone but after looking at it for a while I thought it really isn't it just doesn't have that wow factor to me from the rest of the house we see in here. I don't know I think it needs color so I played around with some different colors and this is the one I chose. It's called Retreat and it's by Sherman Williams and I'm telling you I painted it flat and I tell you after we painted that I don't know it was night and day. We love it. So another project we my husband did during quarantine was we had two columns they were round and what he did was he squared them out and it kind of fits our style so much better. So all of the things I showed you that we did really were not expensive projects from the vinyl to the front door to the two panels drapery linen panels super inexpensive to paint and shiplap really you can do a lot of changes without having to spend a lot of money. If you guys have any questions just leave me a comment below. Be sure to subscribe to my channel hit that bell it will tell you when I have a new video out. Thank you for watching.