How to Create a Welcoming Entrance

Brighten the lighting

Brighten up your entrance to make it more welcoming, lighting adds safety and ambiance swapping an existing fixture is usually simple enough for beginners. Replace any shabby, energy hogging lamps with a low energy or motion activated light in an updated style. Solar lights are another great way to light up walkways and landscape borders and couldn't be any easier to install.

Punch up the color

Once you've shed light upon things, punch up the color with paint and plants. Choose a standout paint color and let it pop from stair treads, railings, shutters, your porch floor or ceiling or your front door. Bring in more color with flowering plants and containers . Let colorful flowering plants spill over the hanging baskets and pottery for a traditional look or cottage appeal. Flower box is filled with blooms in complementary or monochromatic colors can enhance the otherwise plain architectural backdrop. Choose simply shaped neutral colored containers for a modern look and fill them with plants in a monochromatic hue or create interest from more ornately shaped container arrangements.

Freshen up finishes

When you freshened up the paint and planted fresh flowers, complete the look by freshening up the finishes. Switch door hardware to an updated finish, update your house numbers and coordinate your mailbox with the style and colors of your home. Here's one more helpful tip: lighting accent colors and hardware are easy to switch out when you fall in love with a new trend, so be as bold as you want to be with your colors and style and don't forget to add the perfect welcome mat, it's the perfect finishing touch for a grand entrance.

For tips, advice and tools you need, visit your neighborhood ACE store or shop online at www.aceuae.com