Your Coat Racks Plus Home Organization

Remodeling or restoring an old home is a challenge that any designer would love to face. Changed designs and styles of present houses have affected the way people store their possessions. We don’t get attics these days. So, we are led to use garages and outbuildings. No more racks and trunks for clothes as we got used to using closets. If you are fortunate to own a home and not an apartment, you should try designing and arranging your home the way it was originally meant to be.

It may call for a complete change of many things. For instance, it means replacing your kitchen cupboards with hanging racks and open standing shelves. It also means having trunks and chests in bedrooms for all your storage needs. Likewise, you have to incorporate changed storing options for the bathroom too. Over and above all that you have to make attractive, yet functional changes to the front and back of your home. That would essentially call for inclusion of coat-racks. Yes, that old fashioned substitute of a storage closet.

It may come as a pleasant surprise to you to learn the storage potential that a well designed coat rack has to offer. This tree like structure with protruding branches in the form of pegs could be used as a storage unit in itself.

Let’s consider one of its more popular styles for homes with spacious foyers.
It has pegs for coats and hats, the usual items that you may expect. Then, a shelf at the top for keeping delicate hats or bonnets with a mirror provided over the pegs to facilitate ladies to check if their headgear was in the desired position. And that’s not all, for it has had shelves or trays on the sides for mail or visiting cards enabling a visitor to drop one card to let you know of his or her visit when you were away. Most often there would be a bench with built-in storage. Now, look at the functional part: Visitors could sit here and those leaving the house may take its support to adjust or put on the shoes. The others were designed to hold umbrellas and some had cubbyholes to house galoshes too. All these features contributed in making a good coat rack as an all purpose outdoor accessory.



These days it will be too difficult to locate a coat rack with all the above features, but you surely can have one that serves the dual purpose of a coat rack and provides the facility of storage. While choosing one make sure that it has well-sealed varnish and there are no water stains or any other marks. In case of a bench or chest check if it is lined with cedar and ensure to use insecticides so that moths won’t affect the clothing

It is very important to check and confirm that a coat rack fulfills all your requirements and not just a few of them. It is worthwhile to invest a little more to buy a piece that perfectly matches your requirements rather than regretting later.

Should you so need, here’s one more reason for you to have a good coat rack near next to your front door. Here’s a good opportunity to display your good coats rather than storing them for a rainy day. Well, no offense meant, as you certainly wouldn’t display your minks or cashmere on an uncovered, unprotected coat rack but what should stop you from having a designer coat or a colorful umbrella over there! Here is an accessory that allows you to have a great display of your vintage clothing and hats while you continue to use it for your day-to-day items. Think of a coat-rack beyond a piece of furniture for daily use in your room. A well crafted, elegant looking coat-rack is a piece of art that reflects your style and taste and brings in that feeling of warmth when you walk past it, more so at the end of the day when you reach home.