What about something like this? You can't see the main front door bc it's opened beyond the glass doors, but maybe something like this could work?

Ooooh! I love the one AndiK posted. My idea is similar...couldn't find a photo, so I worked it up in my design software. It's just the interior elevation looking toward the door of the ante room so you'll have to imagine being able to see through the glass to your front door. If I find a photo, I'll post it later.

I think I recall there being a nice door set up for the ante room in the movie Uncle Buck starring John Candy & McCaulay Culkin. I looked for a photo online of it with no luck, but you could probably rent the movie and check it out first hand. I thought the Home Alone movie house had one, but while they had the ante toom, alas there was no door on it--just a cased doorway. Hope this helps! Keep us posted on what you decide!

Do you need the 'air lock'? The Georgian that was my childhood home had an anteroom between the entry and the foyer. No door between the two -- just an arch.

Mydreamhome--thanks for your image--that's really nice. I remember the movie Uncle Buck, but not the house. I'll have to rent it.
Chisue--we don't need the air lock, I just really want a door on each side to make it like a little room. :)

A classic solution is a solid outer door and a glass inner door. Exterior door could be configured as double doors with transom lites, and the inner vestibule doors as french doors or a single door with sidelites, with or without transoms.
The partition being all glazed adds to the apparent size and enhances openness, while the solid outer doors gives a feeling of strength and privacy.

sombreuil mongrel, forgive my ignorance, but what do you mean by a glazed partition? thanks for your helpfulness.

I meant that the separation between the vestibule and the inner foyer/hall is all in glass; doors, sidelites, transom. Glazed=filled with glass.
Casey

thanks, Casey, for clearing that up for me. What style glass door would be best, like a 1o or 12 lite glass door? I worry that a glass door would look contemporary, no? thanks!