Hanging coats in the downstairs loo

[BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush]

We’re getting a downstairs loo put in. There’s bugger all cupboard space in the house. How would you feel visiting a house where your coat was hung up 8. The downstairs loo.

@Marcanana

It's called a "cloakroom" for a reason guys.... it's where you hang your cloaks. Just put the seat down before you flush the loo. You store your toothbrush in the bathroom for gods sake, and I assume that has a loo in it too?

Ugh ! No ! Wee and poo on your coats, you can’t trust everyone to put the seat down when flushing. Out toothbrushes are kept in the bathroom cabinet for this reason.

How do people cope touching taps in a bathroom?

Surely the issue is do you flush with the lid open or closed? Where you hang your coat is irrelevant as if you are an "open lid flusher" you will have just covered your whole self in poo particles anyway 😆.

We have rain coats etc in the downstairs loo. (Small house - very little space) But we are all very well trained, even the kids, to flush with the lid down. We don't really have a lot of visitors, I suppose if we did then I might reconsider this. Or hide the coats

I think toothbrushes in the bathroom are much worse and lots of people seem to do this without much thought I keep ours in the bedroom.....

I am wondering how quickly people have to run out of the bathroom so they don’t get attacked by poo particles when they flush the loo!

@BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush a Lootility. love it.

Wouldn't the coats block people from using the loo? How spacious is said toilet room?

We keep coats in wardrobes and only one each that we are wearing at the time stays downstairs on hooks, guest coats go on banister or on tje hooks. We have shoes on bottom of wardrobes too and pair we're wearing goes in cupboard with the vaccum cleaner etc!

@ineedaholidaynow

Can you not put coats in the utility?

Definitely need a floor plan

Couldn’t tell you why but no.

@Di11y our utility is tiny, no wall space for coats. Many modern homes are not designed for actual living in! I would love a porch/boot room where we could put coats and shoes

I'd personally stand and hold all my visitors coats before I'd put them in a downstairs toilet.
If I visited someone and they put my coat in the downstairs toilet I'd wash it straight away and question their sanity

All of you who are horrified by this I hope you realise that when you yourself have a poo particles jump out of the water into the air and onto your clothing and skin. That's before you flush. Am presuming you shower after every evacuation and change all of your clothing

I am not sure I can do a floor plan but just try to imagine - door - tiny lobby - tiny - coat hooks - turn left in fact just just look left - left door even smaller but v small loo & basin - so coats and loo divided by a door But v v small. I cannot emphasise how small.

Is that a big deal - ? Thus far we have never had any of the family or guests ill because of coats near the tiny downstairs loo.

I had v posh friends who kept all the coats in (one of) their downstairs loo, but it was the size of the living room in my first house.

I am shocked by how disgusting some people find the idea.

I wouldn't personally.

It irritates me when coats, dressing gowns or hoodies are on the back of the door. I don't like not being able to open a door fully.

For us hoodies etc go in wardrobes. I have a free standing coat rack that's in the cupboard.

Is there any space in the hall for a coat rack or hooks?

@CupOfTPlease - Hall ? Hall ? I think you underestimate how small my house is To be fair I do have 2 hooks by front door.

My god, what is this?! Coats in a ground floor bathroom? Absolutely not. Use the cloakroom or utility room instead! Imagine the flush germs over everyone’s clothes. 😳

The cloakroom is the downstairs toilet @Thewiseoneincognito!

@ineedaholidaynow

The cloakroom is the downstairs toilet *@Thewiseoneincognito*!

Why would you put a toilet in the cloakroom? 🙈

Because the downstairs toilet is called a cloakroom, so would need a toilet!

British English: cloakroom is a word for toilet

Those definitions show it as either a room for coats/luggage OR a toilet/rest room. Nothing in there indicates its a dual purpose room, more like a word that has 2 meanings...

@Thewiseoneincognito

My god, what is this?! Coats in a ground floor bathroom? Absolutely not. Use the cloakroom or utility room instead! Imagine the flush germs over everyone’s clothes. 😳

Unfortunately when my cottage was built for peasants 250 years ago they omitted to include a utility room or cloakroom it's downstairs loo or shed down the garden.