Where the heck do you store shoes, coats etc?

[TheMotherChip]

I’ve been looking at hallway decor pictures and I’d really like to make my hallway look nice like them. The only problem is that they never seem to have about 40 pairs of shoes and about 20 coats (not all mine, the whole family’s).
I’ve got a reasonably sized square entrance hall, about 3m each way. However there are 4 doors, a radiator, window and a staircase in that space leaving few places for furniture. We’ve tried putting a cupboard under the stairs for shoes but the head height is so low under the stairs it is unpleasant to crawl around to rummage through the cupboard to find shoes. The shoes then end up in a pile on the floor. Coats are on hooks but ideally I’d like them to be in a cupboard where they’re not constantly on show. Any ideas anyone? I’m wondering about moving the radiator to one of the slimline tall ones but not sure how warm these are?

Either a small wardrobe in the hallway, or if there isn't enough room, most coats and shoes need to live in bedroom wardrobes.

I’ve done my first ever mumsnet plan! The thick lines are the doors and the radiator is on the left wall with window above. Hopefully the staircase is obvious. So even though it’s quite a spacious hallway none of it is very useable space!

Shoe cabinet in the hall, each member of the family has their own section. It looks like you could maybe fit one along the wall. Shoes that don't fit go in the bedrooms and can be rotated if necessary. We also have a coat/umbrella stand where everyone can hang a couple of things, again the extras have to go in the bedroom wardrobes.

I hate hallways with no storage . On our previous house we had those drawers built into the understairs space. They were amazing. Can’t do that in this house so we’re considering a porch

Pullout shoe rack under the lower part of stairs

Like this

@PinkCherryBlossomTree I know. Wish I had big enough hallway!
It's nit cheap to have this done, but imho it's worth it.

We fit a Kallax 2x2 with drawers for shoes. Other side of wall has 4 coat hooks for coats wearing often or they go into under bed storage or back door hooks in room.

I have large hooks on the inside of a boiler "cupboard" full sized door for shoes and hooks from outside for coats. It works for small household. Wouldn't work for 40 pairs though

We have interesting coat hooks attached randomly to the wall, and a shoe cupboard from IKEA. The key is to only allow family members to keep the coat they are currently using, and just a couple of pairs of shoes that they wear very regularly, in the hall. Everything else goes in the wardrobe.

We had an alcove and we got doors built on the front so it basically turned it into a double wardrobe. It's fantastic. Coats, shoes, wellies and bags all go in there plus about 500 bags for life in the bottom!

How much space do you have to the side of the window / radiator could you build something in that corner?

We have a shoe storage box from ikea. Granted there are only two of us but it's quite good and not obnoxiously large either. Plus it sits up on the wall and it's like it's floating.

I would like to know this too. The Ikea shoe storage cupboards would hold about a tenth of the shoes we seem to own - wellies/sandals/trainers/schools shoes/every kind of sports shoe x 4.

I once had a visitor who commented coming into my house was like coming into a mosque....😳😬

We currently have two Ikea HOL large storage boxes full of shoes with more on top, with wall mounted coat hooks above. Thinking about just getting a massive wardrobe.

I have this problem! Working towards solving it by having a welly rack outside for wellies, and attempting to rotate shoes and coats. I’m wondering if something that would slide under the sofas would be good for shoes actually.

We have a tiny hallway and one of the doors off it leads to the children's playroom.

We banked a 4m run of wardrobes along one wall, the children have 1 double wardrobe for hats/coats/shoes/school bag/PE kits and Dh and I have another. It has hanging rails for coats, drawers and shelves for everything else.

Shoes are removed in the hall (shoes off house) and we walk through into the playroom and everything gets put away.

Yodel I love the sound of a 4m run of wardrobes! That would be heaven to me! Also an alcove turned into a wardrobe- swoon!
I think the pull out under stairs storage would be a good option and solve the shoe problem but not the coat! Anyone got any idea how much those things cost? I’m surprised they’re not more common considering they’re such a good way of using a wasted space.
If not I’ll just have to wait for the children to grow up and leave home before I can ever be tidy!

I'd relegate all but the two most commonly used pair of shoes and coats each to bedrooms for starters.

I keep a winter coats clothes rail in the attic, with a cover over it, which has the majority of coats. Then I only have to worry about having the right few coats for the season out.

I have 4 children and tried loads before my final lasting storage solution. My hallway is just like yours! It was cheap and looks fine. I got 4 hooks one for each child - with 2 points each. (I originally put a photo above each one but this later changed to one long mirror and the children know which hook is theirs). They put their school bags on them too. My dh and I put our coats bags in the attached garage on our own set of hooks each as we are more likely to do this! Plus I have many bags. I use a massive wicker basket intended for logs as a communal shoe dump. Occasionally I have an amnesty and send some upstairs. We then have a telephone unit with drawers in for gloves, hats, sunhats. All works well. If it is a family do / xmas I send the contents of the 4 pegs upstairs so that visitors can use them.

I don't allow every pair of shoes and every coat to live in the hall.

People keep most shoes in clear plastic shoe boxes in their wardrobes. Coats that aren't in every-day circulation live in wardrobes too.

In the hallway I have this:
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Love it. Lots of space for day-to-day coats, one shelf so two layers of shoes in the cupboard nicely hidden and I have boxes on the top for hats/gloves/umbrellas.

I have shoe boxes in wrdrobes like this but there is no way I would have paid that price.... bit can't see them cheaper right now. They fit one pair of adult trainers or multiple pairs of flip slops/sandals or children' shoes.

I went free standing because I have a window in the hallway and no other wall space to install coat hooks.

I though it was worth kinda blocking the window to have some hallway storage and the hallway is plenty light from the front door and another window anyway.

You can get a shoe cabinet. Only about 250-300mm deep because although it appears to have drawers, they are actually pivoting shoe-holders that swing down.

The cheap version is laminated chipboard and quite poor. More solid ones are dearer. If you have flats or childrens shoes you can fit six pairs in each "drawer." Ankle boots sometimes fit, if small and squashy. The ones with plastic "sides" and pivots are rather flimsy.

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-3-Drawer-Shoe-Cabinet-Storage-Cupboard-Footwear-Stand-Rack-Wooden-Unit-New/222279420945?epid=1093440031&hash=item33c0e2cc11:m:mwCX0lDTiZknWa4dTJxDCVg

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-3-Drawer-Shoe-Cabinet-Storage-Cupboard-Footwear-Stand-Rack-Wooden-Unit-New/222279420945?epid=1093440031&hash=item33c0e2cc11:m:mwCX0lDTiZknWa4dTJxDCVg

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Oak-Shoe-Storage-Cupboard-Solid-Wood-Shoe-Organizer-Cabinet-Harvard/132597595698?var=431938967858&hash=item1edf6ebe32:m:mnsQzHVaIYYkgz9HM7_mo_g

I've only once seen a nice-quality one in a furniture showroom.

If you build anything, get shallow compartments so nothing can get pushed to the back. They may get dirty.

You can also put dowels on the wall like "chapel hat-pegs" and hang shoes on them by the heel. I've seen wellingtons stuck on longer dowels in the staff room of an aquarium.