It must be admitted that we treat the hallway with slight disdain - the room is certainly useful, in a sense, even a "face", but - what is there, not residential. They came, took off their shoes and moved on. In this article, we will show how a different organization of a small hallway will change the quality of your life.
This is a closet, they are sitting on it
On the magazine photos, all the hallways are sterile clean and touchingly comfortable. In reality, dirty boots, boots with knotted laces and crumpled scarves live here. The easiest way to maintain if not order, but at least its feeling is to hide all things in a closet. Idea in the photo: note how you can combine a wardrobe and a bench (with a shoe rack) in the hallway.
Hanger chair
One chair, one Lack shelf from a Swedish hypermarket - and here you have an impromptu shoe rack for the dirty part of the hallway in the best tradition of the Ikea Hackers community. On such a hanger it is shown to dry wet twists, leave hats and umbrellas. A console table is useful for bags and gloves. The shelf also acts as a parking lot for dirty shoes: after all, if you don’t give them a place, they will stand around the entire perimeter of the hallway.
Lego Housekeeper
Nothing irritates a person who is late for work like a child asking to use the toilet and missing keys. If nothing can be done about the first, then the problem with the keys is completely solvable. Just give them a separate place in the entrance area on a special key holder. Yes, we forgot to warn you: it remains to accustom yourself to leave the keys in the key holder. Some two or three years of training - and the order!
A million-dollar idea for those whose children grew up out of Lego - use the designer to make a key holder: a long bar is glued to the wall as a holder, and the joined fragments cling to the keys like a keychain.
Keys on a string
Are you still looking everywhere in the morning for the keys? Well, then such an option is a chain-keychain (or keychain-spring). Clings to a bag or belt loop, sold in tourist shops; can be discharged from China through a well-known online flea market.
More baskets, good and different
The weak point of the average hallway is not even the size, but the disorganization of a metaphysical nature. There was just order - and already an exhibition of shoes, hats falling on the head and children's toys underfoot.
Little trick: "sorting" baskets help a lot to maintain order in the hallway - their own for scarves, gloves, hats, slippers, etc. Then small things will not roll around where horrible.
Baskets fit any: steel, wicker, wicker or fabric. This item is great as it replaces a closet drawer and can stand/hang anywhere.
The big advantage wire baskets over fabric or wooden ones is that they look lighter and do not visually clutter up the space. In addition, you can immediately see what is where. Finally, steel is easier to clean.
From the nursery to the hallway
Something, but we learned to sort and hide children's toys. It's time to use the accumulated experience and furniture in the hallway. We look at the photo: the “Ikeevskaya” storage system with sliding plastic drawers is a finished bench and baskets for the hallway. And if a niche of a suitable size was found for it, then without hesitation we hang a sliding door: we hide a mess of dirty boots and jackets according to recipe 1.
Hooks in the hallway
Nothing encourages children to keep their belongings in order more than their own hooks in the hallway.
Idea: Children's and adult clothes are obviously of different sizes and it is unergonomic to place them on hooks at the same height. Arrange the holders randomly - and the "lump of jackets" will be evenly distributed along the wall.
Instead of baskets - buckets
It's been a while since you tripped over a dump truck in the hallway? Such a rack as in the photo - with signed buckets for street toys - will save nerve cells for a couple of years of life.
You can, of course, hope that at the same time it will teach the child to order. But most likely it will just help you not to spread the sand from the sandbox further than the bucket container. The main thing is that it is easy to reach out to him from the threshold.
For dog owners
Embedding dog bowls in a drawer on the lower tier of a wardrobe in the hallway means solving two problems at once: firstly, with a place, and secondly, with bowls in the interior.
This cabinet is especially good on the border of the kitchen and the hallway - you don’t have to run far with dirty bowls and back.
Hooks under shelves
It's not only ergonomic (frees up countertop space), but also comfortable. For some reason everyone forgets about it. The second underestimated resource is clothespin hooks: with their help, for example, it is good to store and dry mittens.
Wardrobe space in the hallway
Pay attention to the front door - the space around it is most often used not very rationally (that is, in no way). Maybe the fact is that we are looking for all solutions, looking "into the apartment", and not "on the street".
Shelves in piers
Great idea for a small hallway: an area of 20 by 30 cm pier will be enough to accommodate all seasonal shoes even where rain, snow, heat and cold can happen in one week.
Tip: Complete a floor-to-ceiling shoe cabinet with a louvered door to keep the inevitable dust from settling on clean shoes.
end rods
In order for hangers with outerwear to fit freely on an ordinary longitudinal bar, at least 55 cm is required. The wardrobe will eat another 5 to 10 cm, depending on the design of the doors. Not everywhere there is so much space. An easy way to solve this problem is to replace the longitudinal rod with several end rods.
Tip: Correctly calculate the load: 8 hangers fit on a standard 40 cm end bar, but we are talking about shirts. Most likely, you should not hang more than 3-4 jackets on such a design.
On the back of the door
Life hack for a door that opens to the wall. Hooks and narrow baskets screwed to the canvas from the side of the room will help not only store things, but also hide them from prying eyes when the door is open. The reception is suitable for both the nursery and the hallway.
Mirror doors
Remember that the curse of slanted corner bathrooms and built-in cabinets is removed with the help of solid mirrored glazing from the hallway. The main thing is to warn guests about this even before they hit their foreheads on the mirror.
Tile carpet
The floor in the hallway always wants to be "insulated" so that it is immediately clear - this is already an apartment. But the prospect of washing carpets every week makes us choose easy-to-clean tiles.
But in fact there is no contradiction: floor tile manufacturers produce ceramic "carpets" of different geometric shapes, and you can install a film floor heating system - the rise compared to coverings in other rooms will not be significant.
Invisible Furniture
If there is not much space, choose transparent plastic furniture - it does not "eat up" the space. Yes, and "levitating" bags will add mystery to the hallway.
Magnetic paint
The material is not cheap (on average 1500-2000 rubles for 0.5 liters), it smells noticeably when applied, but the result is spectacular. You can attach messages to the wall with magnets. Magnets! To the wall!
Tilted shelves
No need to reinvent the wheel - for a narrow hallway, narrow shoe racks with inclined shelves have long been invented. Due to the slope, just those 10 cm are removed that make you think “do I need this bulky cuttlefish in the hallway.”
Fact: If you already have a shoe cabinet, replace the shelves with slanted ones (sold in construction hypermarkets). And find a place for storing shoe chemicals on the door - fix shallow wire baskets. Buy them in the "filling for kitchen cabinets" section.
Bottleneck
In a narrow niche or corridor, you can make a narrow hanger according to individual sizes. For example - from a pipe.
Shelf-console
This solution is doubly beneficial, since the rack is also a long console shelf for vases, photographs and trinkets.
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