As you put on and take off your shoes, it’s natural to focus on the floor of your entryway. That creates another opportunity to do something interesting.

Ms. Bunsa is a fan of using encaustic cement tiles with colorful graphic patterns in foyers. In a home in Jamesport, N.Y., she installed hexagonal tiles with mustard, light blue and dark blue details from Popham Design in a randomized pattern for a bold, geometric look. In her own home in Miami, she used rectangular tiles with free-form, black-and-white shapes, also from Popham Design, running them across the floor and up one wall.

“I wanted to play with the idea of the classic black-and-white checkerboard tile floor,” she said. “But the Popham tile changes it up and makes it feel more modern.”

For a client’s home in Roslyn, N.Y., Ms. Woodhouse riffed on a traditional stone floor by installing triangular marble tiles from Artistic Tile in various colors, including white, black, red, pink, blue and green. “Because it was a small space, we were looking for that eye-candy moment that would pop,” Ms. Woodhouse said. “It’s where you would least expect it, which really makes a statement.”