Anyone use a wardrobe in hallway as storage?

[lingmerth]

Just this. Moved to a house that has a square hallway. No cloakroom for coats, shoes etc. At the moment we have a row of hooks on one side and the other has pic attached. It all looks a mess. Any suggestions please?

This is the other side. All looks such a mess!

Can you thin out the coats? We have similar and it doesn’t look too bad because everyone has one coat each. The rest are kept upstairs in respective wardrobes.

Problem is there's no space in our wardrobe. Maybe the answer is to buy a wardrobe for the spare room and store everything in there!

If I had that configuration of hallway I'd definitely consider a cupboard for coats and shoes.

IKEA has narrow ones described as 'hallway wardrobes' for instance.

www.ikea.com/gb/en/cat/hallway-wardrobes-48007/

However, I don't think putting damp coats and shoes into a closed cupboard would be sensible so I'd either make sure it was ventilated (louvres or whatever) or get some sort of open unit which would probably look a bit neater than hooks and a separate rack.

www.wayfair.co.uk/furniture/pdp/yaheetech-iron-hall-tree-with-shoe-storage-u004572838.html?auctionId=b403b86f-28a4-4c42-941c-94f0a84c9f12

That's exactly what my hall looks like. I considered a small miles kid's wardrobe. But it would have taken up too much space. So I just have to live with it.