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boring ?: where do you keep coats?

marleysmommarleysmom member
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So today I have a day off, and I'm trying to get some home organization done - hence the boring question. We have a three bedroom home - the third is currently an office/misc room that will become Jocelyn's bedroom. I'm trying to figure out what to do with all the stuff that is in there now. We just finished our basement which gave us a huge amount of space to store almost everything that was in the office, except coats and the dog bowls! Chris built this house before we met, and there is no coat/entry closet (or a linen closet - didn't cross his mind?), so we've been using the office closet as such. Now that Josie's clothes will take up that space, I'm not sure where to put the coats where they will be convenient. We have a wall rack that holds a few near the back door, but will not hold them all. If you also don't have a dedicated closet, where to do keep coats/jackets in your home?

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  • MrsJMBMrsJMB
    In our old house when we didn't have an entry closet, I kept them in the third bedroom closet.  
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  • BrendaKBrendaK member

    We used to have a huge entryway closet in our mudroom that fit all seasons of our coats, but we walled it up so we could expand one of our bathrooms. :-)

    We put a smaller closet on the other side of the mudroom and enclosed our stackable washer/dryer, but it's SO much smaller than our old one. We can only fit one season's worth of coats/outerwear.

    The rest of our coats, we store in the basement. We have a couple big storage shelves that had about 3-4 feet between then. DH rigged up a big rod to fit between them to hold our off-season coats. It works great. Plus there's floor storage underneath them for boots.

     

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  • IU_babyIU_baby member

    Is your laundry room close to the door you go in and out of most often?  Maybe hang some cute hooks in there for the coats.

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  • inkygirlinkygirl
    I have a coat closet, but it's by my front door and I always come in through the garage.  I have a coat tree right next to my garage door and that's where I hang my coats for the season.  Anything that's out of season is hanging in the back corner of the coat closet.
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  • mrs.melluvsloganmrs.melluvslogan
    I like Brenda's idea of storing them in the basement.  Or you could keep the off season coats in your own closets if you have room.  I have Ellie's coats in her closet.
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  • tarapaige1tarapaige1
    We have them all in a coat closet now. Could you use half of LO's closet for some of them? That's what we did with some other items we didn't have space for. Slide the left door open and there they were, slide the right side open and there were DS's clothes.
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  • fruitcakesfruitcakes member

    We have this rolling rack with these storage bags for all of our coats.  The coat that we wear everyday during the winter gets hung on a over-the-door hook in the kitchen pantry (right next to the steps to the garage), but we're going to hang a row of hooks on the wall behind the door to the basement/garage so that we can hang O's daycare bag + the coats.

     

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  • lckytabby3lckytabby3
    We have a coat closet/entry closet.  or  I have some stuff in the back half of baby closet.   Or Hubby has extra space in is closet.  We have his and her closets.
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