Do you keep coats in your downstairs loo (cloakroom?)

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We hang some jackets and shoes in the downstairs loo, despite me being a bit about the very idea of it for a very long time.

I'm just about to give the room a total makeover and want a good argument against putting the coat hooks back up. I don't really have anywhere else downstairs they can go however, so might not have a choice.

Where do you keep your coats and shoes?

Oooh no to the loo!

We don't have a downstairs loo so we do what Tiredness does. And some more on the inside of the door of the under-stairs cupboard.

Coat rack in the hall. Coats don't belong in the loo!

Understairs cupboard. We also have an outside laundry room where muddy boots and coats live.

We do this as well and I hate it. Our under the stairs is tiny so only the shoes and childrens coats can fit in there and I refuse to have my hallway cluttered up even more with loads of coats.

I've contemplated taking out some of the top cupboards in my utility room having coat hooks there and using the space in my loo to store all the crap stuff that I keep in utility room cupboard. It's effort though.

One good things is flush germs don't get at them because my toilet seat is faulty and doesnt stay up!

Yes, we have no choice. Literally nowhere else to put them.

Good argument against= if anyone flushes the toilet without closing the lid the aforementioned coats will get covered in water droplets coming out of the toilet bowl, plus whatever happens to be mixed with the water. These droplets spray in a radius of about 6 feet around the toilet each time it's flushed.

Yes. No choice here. Nowhere else to put them.

coats are in wardrobes upstairs!

Thanks Adora, how far are the toothbrushes from the loo in your average bathroom.....?

People who keep coats (and shoes) upstairs, do you really run up and down whenever you are popping out? Does it mean they are hanging around downstairs really and out of sight upstairs when someone calls?

I second watfordmummy. In own wardrobes upstairs.
Yes, we really go upstairs to collect coats and shoes when required. Even dd(4) happily takes her coat and shoes upstairs when we get back in. At first it needed a lot of nagging to get everyone to co-operate, but now has become easy habit. We have no storage downstairs, no meaningful hallway, and I refuse to store these items in downstairs loo as it became more than just one pair of shoes / jacket per person and escalated into a rediculous mess.

Never heard of keeping coats in downstairs toilets. Don't they end up a bit, erm smelly? Don't have a downstairs toilet but will do soon when we move and it didn't even occur to me to use it for coats.

We do, yes. Why else are they called "cloak"rooms? It's quite a big (as in long) room and so they're not hanging particularly close to the loo. Besides I can't stand the clutter in the hall.
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our downstairs toilet is too tiny to fit coats in. We have a row of hooks on the wall in the hall

No way. We've coat hooks and a shoe cupboard in the hall. The downstairs loo is tiny anyway, they wouldn't fit.

What do you do with visitors' coats? We hang them with our own coats - I'd be making 'hmm' faces at my coat being hung in a downstairs loo in someone else's house!

We have a wardrobe downstairs for coats. It's actually a nursery one with 2 drawers which we keep hats, gloves & scarves in.

Living room as it's open plan, no downstairs loo. The upside of it being cluttered is that the coats dry off quickly and are warm when we put them on.

I don't like the idea of them being in a downstairs loo now I've thought about it.

Yes our coats are in the downstairs toilet, but behind a closed door (like a little room of its own). And as for flushing the toilet with the lid up, I'm afraid that's a hanging offence in our house - the kids are well trained on that one!

Our last house was tiny and I had coat hooks on the outside of thr downstairs loo door. Some shoes in the hall, but otherwise they go upstairs.

No, I don't have a downstairs toilet.

Coats in the hall outside downstairs loo. It is too small to hang coats in.
My family bathroom is just 6ft square. Toothbrushes have to take their chances.

No coats in the under the stairs cupboard.