Dress Up Your Design: Reinvigorate an Entryway

Each month, a lucky reader wins accessories from Etsy.com to complete a room. For July's winner, Melissa, designer Claire Watkins selects the accessories and shares why she chose them to update this too-traditional entryway.

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Before: Too-Traditional Entryway

"This is a combination entryway, sitting room, dining room and office space. It is filled with mahogany antiques and a green sofa and chair. I have no idea how to finish it so that it doesn't look like my grandmother's house, which isn't this boring, by the way," says this month's winner, Melissa.