Hallway Coat Storage Buying Guide

A hallway coat storage provides a place where you can shed your outdoor gear and quickly put it away. Whether you are shucking off snow boots and a heavy winter coat or you are scrambling out of dirty garden shoes, a spot to put your outdoor things makes it easy to keep from tracking damp or muck across carpets or floors.

What are the benefits of proper hallway coat storage?

Hallway storage is handy for coats, outdoor footwear, and even for garden implements (depending upon the door). It puts an end to outerwear that is draped over a chair and to stumbling over footwear.

If your entry storage space also includes a place for umbrellas, boots and shoes as well as coats – and a handy place to sit down to pull them off – you have a head start on taming clutter. Organizing your home isn’t necessarily about sitting down with three boxes and doing a Keep, Donate, and Throwaway sort on your possessions. In fact, if you are a thrifty prepper, a lot more is going to land in the Keep pile than in the other two, especially if you’ve been judicious in where you spend your cash in the first place.

What are the most popular types of hallway coat storage?

Simple Metal Rod Rack

One of the simplest hallway storage units is a metal rack with four hooks for coats, an overhead shelf for hats, a seat and a shoe rack underneath the seat. It takes up approximately a two-foot by three-foot space in your general layout, and it around five feet tall. It might be essentially free-standing, but should be secured to the wall if possible. This prevents a heavy winter coat from toppling the unit.

Coat Tree

If your space is severely limited, a coat tree can take care of part of your hall storage problem. Coat trees are often a single rod with a four-limbed support base, and four double hooks at the top for hanging both coats and hats. The lower hook is for the coat, the upper for the hat. Add a wall-mounted shoe rack and a one-step stool, and you have the equivalent of the metal rod rack.

Floating Shelf and Bench

For those who want something a little more elegant, but still practical, a storage bench with shoe cubbies topped by a floating shelf with coat hooks underneath it. The floating shelf can include cubbies for personal belongings or for mail – something that can accrue into major clutter if given the chance. This is a lovely choice for a front entry arrangement.

The Garden Prepper Closet

Not every door needs something elegant. Garden shoes and equipment tend to clomp mud and garden dirt all over the kitchen – to say nothing of those garden tools that accumulate by the back door. Tame it all with a side-by-side equipment closet and coat hanger, along with a bench boot and shoe rack. With this setup, you will always know where your gardening shears, light garden shirt and hat are located.

A hallway coat storage keeps your coats and so much more neatly organized and ready for use.