What do you do with wet coats and shoes?

[Phalarope]

We live in the northwest of England. It’s currently raining. Expect it to rain fairly solidly until ooh, maybe the end of time.

What do you do with everyone’s sodden coats and shoes? We’ve all got decent kit but am already fed up with stripping the kids off in the storm porch and draping everything in the tiny downstairs loo (because it’s got a tiled floor and an extractor fan and a tiny wall-mounted clothes airer). Don’t buy enough newspapers for the amount needed to stuff wet shoes.

Fantasising about a parallel universe where we have some kind of vast luxury boot room with underfloor heating and benches, or a walk-through human hand dryer thingy instead of a porch…but is there some kind of genius domestic hack for normal life that I’m missing?

@Phalarope I too live in the North West and it's been particularly wet today! I've got an old fashioned free standing coat stand in my hall which can hold coats and umbrellas. Wet shoes go on the door mat.

Dehumidifier to dry them out!

I’m in the north east of Scotland. All wet things, muddy things and shitey covered horse things lie in the porch. We’ve got a coat stand as well as pegs on the wall out there all buckling under the weight and we’ve got shoe racks that nobody uses they just heap them in piles in the far end or leave them for you to trip over. My house growing up was the same except worse because there were three or four adults and seven kids living there on and off

Coats: put them on a radiator or on a chair next to radiator.
Shoes: take insoles out and open each shoe as much as possible, put shoes and insoles somewhere near radiator or into the bathroom for night ( bathroom is the warmest place), then shot blast with a hairdryer in the morning.
However we all have at least one more set of shoes and coats so it's very rare we are without back up.

My coat hooks are over a radiator in the hall. Not that it's been on much! Or a quick go in the dry:soon if needed or quite damp.
Shoes I put in a laundry bag and hang over an arm.

I have a wood burning stove that dries things out pretty well. I've got a grid that goes over it, so can put shoes, wellies etc on. Then a line above.

We just hang them on the bannister/coat hooks in the utility room with a towel underneath for drips. Shoes can dry inside of the patio door.

If we are going to need them again soon after, they get hung in the airing cupboard or draped on a radiator...if it's on.

This has reassured me that everyone has the same issue. Porch is just a roof really, not enclosed, so no good for leaving stuff, but will have a look at a proper coat stand for the hall, and a load of bath mats to catch the drips.

Keep seeing Insta pics of lovely tidy hallway solutions and thinking ‘but this is no good for the RAIN’.

I have a good but cheap runner mat which can be washed. Keeps some of the mud and wet off the floor.

I have hall envy too. Mine is small, awkwardly laid out with doors and radiator and annoying!