I literally couldn't sleep this week for mithering about our entryway closet. Entryway storage is very important to me.  I don't want to greet guests with a mountain of shoes.  I really want all the front door crap - sunscreen, sunglasses, bags, car keys, masks (will there still be masks? better make provision just in case), hand sanitizer (ditto), hoodies - to be hidden away. Originally the architect suggested a closet by the door to the garage, from the kitchen. But we walk out more often than we drive. So we had him rethink and put the closet by the front door along with a new door to the garage. The closet and the office door were side-by-side. They were at the edge of the library but I had plans for a gorgeous slatted back for my shoe-cubby-bench, which would screen it off.  Like this only with slats to the ceiling: Then we decided to put an internal window between the office and the entryway, so we could steal a little light. Our architect suggested we put glass doors in,

Don't you just love those cement tiles that have been everywhere these past couple of years? I do. I think I've always loved them. I remember seeing the Ilse Crawford installed tile floor at High Road House when it opened in 2006, and finding it utterly delightful.  2006! That's forever ago. So that makes them timeless, right? Delightful though that High Road House floor was, those forest colours would feel a little murky for sunny Hermosa Beach. And we're not building a Spanish Revival house so we'll avoid anything too Spanifornia (though in a different house I would be 100% all in on that Malibu Potteries vibe ). We have a lot of stuff so that funky patchwork effect might be more visual clutter than we can absorb. I love it, but it's not quite right for our house. We're building a contemporary, black and white and grey house. So the way to instal the cement tile I truly have always loved would be a more contemporary, black/white/grey look. Something li