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10 Of The Best Coat Hooks

Since January is all about all boring stuff like dieting and detoxing and not eating this and not eating, that I thought it would be fun to show you some cool things that needn't be expensive so you can perhaps have a little treat that won't cost calories but fits with the general mood of
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Objects of Design #356: Pipe Coat Hook

pipe coat hook from cox and cox This is one of those products that makes me all excited. And yes, some of you will think that's terribly sad. The rest of you know exactly what I mean. I am mildly obsessed with coat storage as, in the UK at least, halls tend to be tiny
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Objects of Design #36: Jumbo Oak Coat Hook

Oak coat hooks from bouf.com Most of us are guilty of overloading our coathooks so that either it becomes impossible to find the item of clothing you are looking for, or the whole thing just falls on the floor and everything is trampled on until someone can be bothered to pick it all up again.
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Is This The Best Wall Hook?

I ask this question in all honesty because it seems to be to be a truth universally acknowledged that a single hook in possession of a coat will very shortly be overwhelmed by about 16 other coats and eventually fall of the wall leaving a socking great hole that no amount of filler will ever
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Leaning Coat and Shoe Rack

leaning clothes and shoe storage from future and found
leaning clothes and shoe storage from future and found Today's post comes to you from the school of Things I Have Learnt Since Having Children. That is to say boys. That is to say, in particular my youngest. Who is well messy. Yes I know, tell you something you don't know. They are also, and
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Objects of Design: Scoreboard Coathanger

scoreboard coathanger from e-side
Hall storage: always useful especially at this time of year when you might have the odd guest. scoreboard coathanger from e-side Hall storage is a vexatious issue because everyone wants something different so I make no apologies about returning to the subject on a regular basis. I have already featured the rather ingenious Hat Tree which
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Coat Rack with Hangers

It must be something about the start of the new year (academic I know but no less significant for that) that makes me feel I must get organised. Perhaps it's an excuse for a week of procrastination before actually getting down to any work, but I know that in addition to the to do lists,
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Objects of Design #189: Goldilocks and the Three Bears Hooks

fairytale hooks Now aren't these hooks great? Of course, they don't have to be for a child's bedroom at all. Particularly if you assume the G stands for Guest. They would work well in any room of the house. Who's been using my coat peg? They're a pleasingly large size too, with the Daddy bear measuring
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Objects of Design #101: Doughnut Hooks

Doughnut coat hooks from alllovelystuff.com Coathooks. There are never enough and they're never big enough. But these would bring a smile to your face every time you walked past wouldn't they? Proper Homer Simpson style doughnut hooks available in a set of three and made from solid beech. Work out how many you need, buy
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Objects Of Design #320: Branch Coat Hanger

a sculptural coat hanger The trouble with lots of coat hangers/hooks/racks, call them what you will, is that the hooks are never really big enough so we end up piling on far too many coats, which not only looks horrible, but is entirely impractical as you usually want the one at the bottom and they
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Objects Of Design #108: E15 Martha Coat Rack

Portable Coat Rack Made from 3cm of solid wood that simply leans against the wall, the genius of this coat rack is its portability. If you have a party and lots of guests have coats, you can simply move this into a spare room and pile the coats on to it rather than cluttering up
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The Three Key Questions You Need To Ask Before You Start Decorating

kws hidden office door by mark anthony fox
Some of you will have read this before - I first published it in 2018 and it was then expanded to six questions for my second book 101 Interior Design Answers, which came out as the lockdown started in 2020. As we near the anniversary of that date and we appear to have lurched from
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On My Radar: What’s New In Interiors this Month

green bedroom partition wall, green velvet buttoned headboard, pink linen bedding collaboration with John Lewis & Partners and Mother of Pearl and Madaboutthehouse.com
This month there is a lovely selection of newness from bedding and rugs to furniture so all in all it's a good round up that would allow you to entirely furnish a new room or zhjujh (no I can't spell it either but you get the idea) up the accessories in an existing one. linen
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10 Beautiful Rooms: Trends versus Reality

This week I thought we'd do 10 Beautiful Rooms in a slightly different way. Essentially chosen by you or people like you. A few days ago I went to the annual trends dinner at Houzz where we ate delicious food and talked about our trend predictions for next year. open plan kitchens was the most
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The Househunter: How To Sell Your House

Cheyne Walk via The Modern House We're going househunting as usual this week everyone but as the house selling season kicks off in earnest in Spring I thought it might be helpful to share this feature I wrote for a newspaper a little while back on tips for helping you to sell. Spring and Autumn
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Steam Bent Wooden Armchair

Isn't this a gorgeous chair? It's new from Tom Raffield, he of the gorgeous steam bent lights and coat hooks which have featured within these walls before. It's a sort of mid-century type style but with a, literal, modern twist. The frame is made from sustainably sourced English oak and the seat has been upholstered
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Objects of Design #357: Mirrored Trunk Stool

mirror trunk stool by malafor from e-side
mirror trunk stool by malafor from e-side Forget what I said yesterday about spraying that industrial pipe coat hook, because about five minutes later I found these stools. Now I know I was saying that our halls tend to be tight spaces but you if you can fit that coat rack you can fit this
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Objects of Design #326: Steel Wall Clock by Block Design

grey steel-wall-clock from block design
grey steel wall clock from block design An industrial-style wall clock with a flash of neon. The hour is lit up from behind in yellow while the pink hand shows the minutes. Every good office needs a good wall clock and this will be mine. steel wall clock in orange and neon by block design
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Objects of Design #321: Five Finds from Etsy – Storage

handmade storage bags by papatotoro from etsy
I do love good storage. Everything works better in a house if there's good storage. When we moved into this house I was determined that we would create enough space for everything and still have empty cupboards. Well, we didn't quite manage that but having lived in several houses with either no cupboards or small,
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Objects Of Design #312: Birch Storage Cube

Shoe storage that doubles up as a bench So they're about to go back to school now and the hall will suddenly be full of shoes, coats, bags, the odd tennis racket and probably a random sock or two. These boxes could sort that out. Made by the Finnish designer Harri Koskinen, you can line
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