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How do you keep scarves organised by front door if you wear a lot of scarves?

25 replies

titferbrains · 19/03/2012 21:07

I have a few silky ones, a couple that are useful if going out and I'll be bfing, warmer ones, DD has some, DH has some.... How do you keep then tidy? I have been meaning to buy some sort of front door storage bench thing for ages but not got round to it. ATM they are stuffed in a trug bucket thing and then there are more piled on a chair on top of the bucket. Not exactly feng shui when you open the door.

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PigeonStreet · 19/03/2012 21:10

We have a coat rack screwed into the back of the front door. Above it at the top of the door I have fixed anther one which we hang scarves on.

Or dh, ds and dd drape them lovingly on the floor Wink

MaureenMLove · 19/03/2012 21:11

Mine are hung in the wardrobe on a tie coat hanger!

PigeonStreet · 19/03/2012 21:11

I am so impressed i have posted on the good housekeeping topic. Usually I lurk here trying not to feel too much of a slattern
Grin Grin

ggirl · 19/03/2012 21:12

they hand on the newell post

or on the coat hooks in the hall

far too many there atm ..and they're all mine

ggirl · 19/03/2012 21:12

hang

gazzalw · 19/03/2012 21:15

Ours have a natural home over the end post of the downstairs banisters - as long as there aren't more than four/five there!

QuickLookBusy · 19/03/2012 21:18

They hang on the back of the utility room door, with all the coats.

We have hats/gloves in a big basket behind the door.

titferbrains · 19/03/2012 21:21

We already have 4 hooks where 3 million coats fight for a place. If I hang the scarves there they may get lost and never be found again...

I really need them by the door, otherwise it's just another thing I'll forget to bring downstairs every morning. I am extremely forgetful/absentminded.

They need a nice place.

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RunningLatte · 19/03/2012 21:21

Lightweight scarves are over a wire coathanger ,hanging off a hook on the back of my wardrobe door.
Heavier scarves/hats etc are in a tub in the bottom of the wardrobe.
Only the kids scarves etc are by the front door - in baskets on a shelf.

Beamur · 19/03/2012 21:22

Mine are mostly on the end of the banisters too. Some more on the coat hooks. A few more upstairs....found another stash at my Mums at the weekend too - I'd been wondering where they were.
I have two baskets for DD's things - one for gloves and one for hats & scarves.
A wooden low shelf unit for shoes with a large wicker hamper on it for all the outdoor gloves/hats etc for everyone else. Coat hooks on wall above that.
Hall is very full of stuff. It's also where the dog sleeps and DP keeps all his climbing gear.

titferbrains · 19/03/2012 21:24

I am in declutter mode, I would really like them to be put away tidily in a drawer or cupboard. I am a bit sad that when you open our front door you know you are walking into a messy house... Sad Blush

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coffeeinbed · 19/03/2012 21:25

not exactly organised. more of a jumbled pile.
But definitely by the front door,on the console table.

canyou · 19/03/2012 21:29

I hang mine in one of these but I hate odd hats,scarves or gloves Blush], it hangs under the coats

div22c · 19/03/2012 21:42

I use this, hang it under the coats similar to canyou

titferbrains · 19/03/2012 21:52

oh no, have jsut been on the martha stewart website, now I'm truly dreaming of a tidy hallway... love this

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PigletJohn · 19/03/2012 22:10

you have't got to hang them, you can also roll them up and put them on a shelf

5madthings · 19/03/2012 22:12

we have baskets on a shelf in the front porch, wicker ones? that have hats, scarves, gloves etc in them, supposedly neatly but the kids just chuck them in and i periodically tidy them!

gazzalw · 20/03/2012 07:09

Rolling them up! It is mayhem when you get in with the kids and the last thing you feel like doing is creating perfect, design order in the hall...some semblance of tidiness yes, but who has time to roll up scarves! It sounds like a high-end retail trick to me!

We do however have a rather stylish wicker basket for hats/gloves and assorted other outdoors items which gets sorted through regularly!

Ephiny · 20/03/2012 07:18

We have a limit of one scarf each (and one coat!) to be hung on the pegs by the front door. We have pretty limited space (and one hook is taken up with dog leads etc anyway!) so anything not in immediate use gets put away upstairs in wardrobes. Ideally one pair of shoes each, or at most two, in the front porch too.

Not that we always keep strictly to this, but it does look better when we do, otherwise the porch becomes a big messy jumble that looks awful and makes it harder to find anything.

Bonsoir · 20/03/2012 07:26

We are lucky and have a huge walk in coat cupboard in the front hall (which nevertheless gets messy). I have a shelf reserved for scarves which are supposed to be folded up on there, along with gloves and hats.

In the spring, when scarf and hat wearing days are over, I take the whole bang lot and wash or dry clean everything and put them away on hangers in our respective wardrobes until the following winter. This prevents an accumulation of dirty scarves in the cupboard year-on-year.

bushymcbush · 20/03/2012 07:51

I keep my own scarves on a rack that hangs on my bedroom door. This is so that I can try them on when getting dressed and choose which goes best with my clothes. The kids' scarves hats n gloves are in wicker baskets on a shelf near the front door.

wordfactory · 20/03/2012 10:09

Oh Lord, I have far too many scarves. Can't resisit.
I keep my current passions on the coat stand in the hallway. The rest of the heavier ones I keep on a shelf above my main wardrobe. Flimsier numbers are kept in the top drawer of my underwear cupboard.

5madthings · 20/03/2012 10:13

gazzalw same here, nice wicker baskets and stuff goes in and is periodically sorted out, with 5 kids we have a lot of hats, scarves, gloves and dont talk to me about shoes... under the stairs i currently have 2 pampers boxes that are overflowing with various shoes, trainers etc, my eldest generally keeps his upstairs now, but the younger ones put them in the boxes, i want to buy a nice storage unit for them but never find anything i like.

in the front porch we have low down hooks for the kids coats so they can hang up their own and then as you come out of the porch into the hallway there are high up hooks behind the door to the porch where adult coats go, i need to go through them tho, they seem to reproduce!

BsshBossh · 21/03/2012 11:00

I use a chair in our living room - hung nicely folded over the back. If hung nicely then they actually look very nice, like a throw.

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