Browse Forums Interior Decorating Lounge 1 May 10, 2009 8:35 am Hi everyone I need suggestions on how to disguise or work around this internal door to the garage in our entry way. I feel like it is going to ruin the whole look of the entry and it interrupts the flow. There is no option to move it as there is no where else it could go to give access to the garage. I would like to get rid of it completley, but my partner says no! I've attached pics of how the door is going to look in the entry and a pic similar to how I wanted the entry to look. The entry is 3.2m wide, so I was thinking of maybe putting a small round table in the middle of the entry to take focus off the door, but it might get in the way. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 2May 10, 2009 9:00 am Sandy, what's the distance from the front door to the garage door? Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 4May 10, 2009 11:46 am This intrigued me so had a look around. I came across this photo on The White House and different doors they had for escape!master-bedroom-c1966-claudia-johnson.jpg This one you can just see it in right corner. Totally irrelevant to the post, but you don't notice the door in the second photo because of all the decoration in the room! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck! - Dalai Lama Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 5May 10, 2009 12:09 pm I think the main thing is not to draw attention to it - that first photo with the big urns flanking the door just draws your eye right to it. You don't have a lot of wall space between front door and garage, and I forgot to ask which side the front door opens onto? Also, what's on the opposite side of the entry (any doors etc?). Perhaps placing a feature of some kind against the wall that will grab people's attention is the easiest thing to do. Maybe a vase with an arrangement of leaves or flowers, or a piece of artwork or a smallish feature furniture piece. If they're looking at that, they're not looking at the garage door... If there are no doors on the opposite wall, you could have your hall table and mirror there. Also, you have room against the staircase for a hall table (although not a mirror), so as an alternative, you could place your table with some attractive decorator pieces there. If you want a mirror, maybe make a feature of that - go full-length and add a beautiful frame and place that between front door and garage door. If you just want to disguise the door, I suppose painting it and the architraves to match the wall colour will help it to fade into the background. Putting something in front of it, like a screen, wouldn't be practical, assuming you're actually going to use it. Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 6May 10, 2009 12:25 pm I sympathise, I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my entry. (That's a gorgeous floor btw.) I think a table in the middle would look too cluttered because, well, it would BE too cluttered. I'm not sure the White House pics are relevant, they are actual rooms, and on a different scale, and much more furnished, and part of the effect is continuing the dado wall across the doors, and after all that you CAN still see the doors anyway, you just don't tend to look. That's the trick, having something else to draw the eye. It would probably be technically difficult and expensive but maybe the door could be made into a feature, like a large decorative panel (or one of a series if there's space for it) but you'd somehow have to make it frameless and I don't know how you'd disguise the handle. Was it on this site or somewhere else that I saw a door disguised as a bookshelf? It looked great and was very clever and useful. Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 7May 10, 2009 12:30 pm I agree with kek, don’t put anything near the door, as kek said, it is drawing your eye straight to the door. I’m confused…..was the door put in after you bought the house? The flooring is different in the two photos; there are wall lights either side of the mirror in the second photo and not in the first photo, the banister is timber in the first photo and painted in the second photo. Out of interest, is this the same house? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 8May 10, 2009 4:37 pm Michelle, I think they're two different houses - same house design, different displays. I think perhaps Sandy's house isn't finished yet. Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 9May 10, 2009 4:47 pm The urns do draw attention to the door; remove them and I dont think the door is very obtrusive at all, let alone ruining the whole entry look I dont understand the 2nd pic - if the door is in the same place as first one, how do they open it with a hallway table in front of it??? And no, I would not put a round table in middle of the entry; its a large entry but that would definetly interupt the flow Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 10May 10, 2009 4:54 pm Sorry everyone, I think i've confused you all. The pictures i've posted are pictures of two seperate display homes for the house I am just about to build (Slab should be going down in a couple of weeks) Hooray. I've attached a plan of the ground floor so you can see the exact layout of the house (our house is flipped the other way to the display homes). I completley agree about having the urns either side of the door, not a good idea at all Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 11May 10, 2009 5:38 pm You didn't confuse me, Sandy....I figured it out. I htink you have no real option other than to place your hall table beside the stairs. Then perhaps make a focal point of the area next to the lounge doorway (between lounge and study), to draw attention away from the other side of the entry. A big framed mirror, a painting, a sculpture, vase or urn ....something? I'm not sure that you really can do much with the space between front door and garage door. It's a bit small, plus it's mostly behind the front door when opened. If you go for the wow factor with something over near the lounge, then as soon as the door opens, that's what people's vision will be drawn towards. Just a thought: is there a high ceiling here? Can you have a fabulous feature pendant light? I don't think you want to overdo it, with umpteen features in the entry, but it's an alternative that will draw the eye upward and inward, rather than to OMG what IS that door doing there? Re: How would you hide/decorate around this door? Pics 12May 11, 2009 7:11 am I’ve just looked at the floor plan. If you really HATE the door, the best option is to have under the stairs left open, not closed in as they are now. Put the door on the garage wall, under the stairs. And to make that work even better, the stairs would then be able to be on a higher pitch, and starting point to the stairs could be where the current door ends now on the wall. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com If this is a custom build then I would expect the builder to set out the door frame closer to the wall to avoid the gap between architrave and the wall and or specify… 9 8306 Screed is installed before or after, what was not up to code? 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