| When we buy a new home, we walk in the front | | | | take your best friend out for a quick trip around the |
| door and build our first impression. The height of the | | | | block. Return it to its convenient storage spot, and |
| ceilings, the way the light fills the space, the expanse | | | | don't move it unless you are ready to take her out |
| of floors and walls - this first impression often makes | | | | again. |
| our decision for us. After we decide on the house | | | | A few years pass, and now it's a baby who fills the |
| we will eventually make into a home, we furnish this | | | | space in your home. Park the stroller inside the front |
| space in a way that makes a great first impression | | | | door, and stash the diaper bags under the hall tables. |
| to the rest of the world. | | | | It's best to store those essentials - spare diapers, an |
| It's a classic addition to the foyer or front hall of in | | | | extra sweater, and the rattle - right where you need |
| our homes-the hall table. Whether it rests across the | | | | them. |
| wall directly across from the front door, or fills the | | | | The kids are in school, and every year you've got |
| space in the front hallway, it becomes an important | | | | treasures to display. The award-winning art project, |
| piece of furniture in our homes. But because our hall | | | | the straight-A report card, the prom pictures - they |
| tables do not work as hard or as frequently as the | | | | deserve a place of honor in your home - propped up |
| other tables in our house - the kitchen table, the | | | | on your hall tables. |
| coffee table, our bedside tables, we may put them | | | | Maybe you like to add seasonal flair to your décor |
| there and not give them much thought. But this | | | | - spring flowers, summertime lanterns, autumn leaves, |
| gracious furniture works for us on a daily basis. | | | | and holiday keepsakes. You need to make space for |
| Think about your work day. You return home, walk | | | | the decorations that appear in rotation. There's a |
| in your front door, and drop your briefcase, purse, or | | | | good chance that the place to showcase these |
| keys - where? Chances are, it's on one of your hall | | | | treasures is on your hall tables. |
| tables. Maybe you stash shopping bags below the | | | | Decades pass, and the children who filled our homes |
| table and toss your keys in a drawer, or maybe just | | | | with noise and clutter have homes of their own. But |
| leave everything on top of the tables. But there's no | | | | the house is still filled with little footsteps and |
| confusion when it's time to leave the house the next | | | | covered with little handprints. You've got to spoil the |
| morning. You know where to look - the hall tables. | | | | little ones, yes? Where do we keep the candy jars? |
| Pick up your bag, pick up your keys, and go. | | | | Chances are, they're on the hall tables. |
| The first addition to your family comes along soon - | | | | Our hall tables - they're the temporary pedestal for |
| in the form of a puppy. It doesn't take long for her | | | | the mementos in our lives - greeting cards, family |
| to learn to greet you at the front door at the end of | | | | snapshots, vacation souvenirs. We may not work our |
| the day. She's got her eye on the prize after waiting | | | | hall tables the way we do other furniture, but the hall |
| patiently all day for you - she wants a walk. Grab the | | | | tables work in tribute to the moments and the |
| leash from a drawer in one of the hall tables and | | | | objects we hold dear. |