Hanging coats
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If you don’t have a closet near the front door to your home, a free-standing coat rack might be a good way to keep your summer jackets from ending up on the back of every couch and chair in the adjacent room. Website Remodelista has a roundup of 13 pieces that might be useful in your home:
On the left: The Sprout Coat Tree for $99. On the right: 10 Degree Coat Rack for $49.95. Both available at CB2.
Check out the post “10 Easy Pieces: Free-Standing Coat Racks” for eleven more ideas.
8 comments posted
Posted by Fazal Majid - 05/25/2009
I had purchased the 10-degree one, but after 2 hours of fruitlessly trying to assemble it, gave up and returned it to the store. The design is unforgiving of sloppy manufacturing tolerances.
Posted by knitwych - 05/25/2009
Coat racks can be great *if* you can resist the urge to junk them up and use them as permanent storage. Alas, I’m not one of those folks, so my coat rack in my old condo was burdened with heavy winter stuff all year round.
Posted by infmom - 05/25/2009
We found out that the biggest problem with having a coat rack near the door is that if the wind is blowing through the door, over goes the coat rack every single time. Ah, the lessons living in an old house in Kansas with no coat closet teaches you.
We solved the problem by putting a row of coat hooks down the wall in the central hallway. There was already a nice slab of solid molding there, so it worked really well. Probably not a solution for a newer house with drywall, although you could take a nice slab of 1 x 6, paint it, mount it to the studs and attach your coat hooks to that.
Posted by Susan - 05/26/2009
Children cannot reach the top of these coat racks so Mom or Dad still has to hang up and get down their coats. Also since folks usually stand the coat rack in a corner, the coats are usually piled on one side and the coat rack falls over. Invest in an armoire or put up the hooks as @infmom suggests
Posted by Liz - 05/26/2009
Instead of a free-standing coat rack, try http://www.hingeit.com for hooks that attach to the door hinges. When the door is open, the coats and jackets are hidden. They also have towel racks for bathrooms that work the same way. I love them! Unobtrusive and handy.
Posted by Jeri Dansky - 05/27/2009
I’m a huge advocate for hooks, but sometimes a freestanding coat rack is just the right answer. It all depends on the space, and the individual needs. I’ve certainly recommended them to some clients. For more fun options, see http://tinyurl.com/o9cnq6 and http://tinyurl.com/pymv7e,
(Fazal, thanks for the warning on the 10-degree one.)
Posted by Kathryn Fenner - 05/26/2010
Summer jackets?
I’m still trying to figure out what a spring coat is for.
-Columbia, SC
Posted by Wendy - 06/07/2010
I LOVE wall mounted hooks. I bought a decorative board with six double hooks already mounted and hung it behind our apartment door. Even though there was a coat closet right next to the door neither myself or my husband would take the time to hang our coat on a hanger in the closet. I stopped losing my purse and the coats no longer hung out on the couch. We moved the hooks to our new house where they hang by the door we use most. We have even trained our family to hang their coats and hats there when they come to visit.
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