Does the entrance to the living room have to be installed? What are the functions of the entrance hall?

Whether you are searching on Douban, Zhihu, or Du Niang, there are countless people talking about entrance design, but most of them are out of touch with reality. The pictures they give are only beautiful and shameless. For the owners, it’s just an eye-opener and has little reference value; for owners whose apartments don’t have entrance halls, it’s nothing but a lot of traffic.

So how to create a porch with strong storage capacity for a house without a porch? Let’s talk about it in two parts: 1. What are the general types of houses without a porch, and where to put a large porch cabinet. ; 2. What elements are included in the strong storage entrance hall, and how to combine these elements reasonably.

1. What are the general types of apartments without entrance halls, and where to place the entrance cabinets?

Some people always say that apartments are too small to have entrance halls. Small apartments do have entrance halls. The main missing factor is also the reason why the function of the entrance hall changes from caring about Feng Shui to storage first. But in the cases I have done, many large houses also do not have entrance halls. Therefore, the basis for distinguishing whether there is a entrance hall or not cannot be attributed to the size of the house.

In my career, I have seen many apartment types without entrances. Common ones include the following types. I will talk about where to place entrance cabinets and what size is appropriate based on the apartment types.

1. The entrance door is at right angles to the dining room wall, and the door faces the dining room directly (as shown below)

In small and medium-sized apartments, this is a more common type without entrance. In terms of house type, the entrance is another important storage space. Therefore, one needs to find a way to create one. The most common thing used by designers is to build a shoe cabinet against the wall (the small red box in the picture above), which saves time, effort and trouble, and can also meet the general needs of the owners.

But there is another possibility, because there are two walls in the doorway. The width of the wall on the left is not large. If there is more storage demand, it is obviously not enough. Then there is the following design (pictured below). This design not only makes full use of the space, but also has a blocking effect on the entrance, resulting in better privacy. In other words, the entrance hall does not exist alone. In many cases, the design must be considered together with the guest room and dining room.

2. The entrance door is at right angles to the living room wall, and the door faces the living room (as shown below)

Many people have questions, why not put the entrance hall horizontally against the wall, but vertically? There are two reasons for this: 1. The living room is larger, which makes it more layered, and also protects some privacy in the living room, so that you can have an unobstructed view without entering the door; 2. There can be more storage space, and the wall can also Better utilization, because the thickness of the entrance cabinet is certain (usually 30 centimeters, which will be discussed below), placing it against the wall will inevitably occupy more space.

3. The entrance door is at an angle of 0 degrees to the two walls, and can pass through the living room and dining room at a glance (as shown below)

The main reason why the entrance cabinet is set on the right wall is that It is wide enough, and the owner likes the booths, which can make better use of space; simple storage racks can also be placed on the left wall to store clothes, etc.

4. For large apartments, at a 0-degree angle, the entrance door faces the bedroom or bathroom

In large apartments, this is a common situation where there is no entrance, and the entrance door faces the bathroom. Or the door of the bedroom, in which case some partitions are needed (usually position 2 in the picture, on the side of the dining room or living room wall). There is enough storage space in large apartments, so the entrance is more for decoration or to avoid damaging Feng Shui. The above four types are the more common types of houses without entrance halls. For small houses, the function of the entrance hall is more practical and storage; for large houses, it is more for decoration.

5. The size of the entrance hall

The placement of the entrance cabinet is easy to determine, but the overall layout of the dining room or living room must be taken into consideration. The size and width of the entrance cabinet should be determined according to the width of the wall; the height depends on personal needs, but now the floor height of commercial buildings is about 2.8 meters. When the height reaches the top, it will look more depressing, so half height is more appropriate. You can leave about 30 centimeters of space under the cabinet for easy storage of shoes; the thickness is generally 30 centimeters. Let’s talk about why it is 30 centimeters. This is an average number based on the size of the shoes. Since no exact data support has been found, it cannot be said with certainty that Chinese men’s shoe sizes are between 40-46 and women’s shoe sizes are between 36-40; but Jack Ma’s family The best shoe sizes to buy are indeed concentrated in this area. Take the maximum value of 46, and convert it to a numerical value of 28cm. Add in the cabinet door, which is about 5cm, and it is almost the same value. If it is made too thick, it may affect the movement of the house.

2. How to create a porch with strong storage

What we need to understand is that the porch is just a small area and cannot bear much storage function. Many people still want to Think of it as a "face" when entering the door. Put a bunch of shoes, a bunch of clothes, a bunch of keys, cards... Can it look good? Do you want to pursue messy beauty? Strong storage is more about being tolerant and able to store more types of commonly used items, rather than putting all the shoes that can be worn for a lifetime in the entrance cabinet. Is it possible? Therefore, we should first determine what functions the entrance hall should serve. Our needs are nothing more than the following: a place to put shoes, sit and change shoes, a dressing mirror, a place to hang clothes, a place to store small things, and a temporary express box. Are these requirements excessive? Are they not excessive? Can they be met? Of course.

So, what to do.

1. To meet these needs, you need a cabinet that can store shoes, sit, and temporarily store express delivery. You can buy it or customize it. The size can refer to the size of a shoe stool from a certain product.

2. To hang clothes, hats, scarves, keys, etc., you need a row of hangers, or clothes hooks, like this:

3. Finally, you need A mirror. This may be difficult for apartments with shorter walls where the entrance cabinet is located.

4. How to put them together? We combine them according to the width of the wall where the smallest entrance cabinet is located under normal circumstances.

Shoe cabinet: width 600mm, height: about 450mm

Full-length mirror: width about 350mm

The height and quantity of the hangers are customized.

If your wall is not 1 meter wide, then put the full-length mirror somewhere else.

If you want it not to be ugly, then make the style unified and don’t mess with the colors.

Or, if you find it troublesome, just buy a whole cabinet; but I think since you can finish reading this stinky and long article of 1,900 words, you won’t find it troublesome either. Right?