Coat Racks with Style
Coat Rack with Shelf
Coat racks are essential pieces of furniture to keep your coats dry and mold-free especially during the cold seasons where we virtually can’t leave home without wearing a coat. However, standing coat racks can consume precious space, especially for smaller sized homes or building apartments. Plus, coats are very seasonal – you do not get to wear one all year round, especially during Spring and Summer where the sun will be unforgivably scorching hot.
You want to purchase a nice sturdy coat rack but you just do not have ample space or reason for one. A wall mounted coat rack with shelf could just be the right solution for you. Why choose a wall mounted coat rack? Well, if space is the biggest challenge to your home, then a wall mounted coat rack is the best space saving home accessory for you. It does not use up any valuable floor space, plus it only consumes about 35 inches of any wall or door in your living room, kitchen, entryway, or bed room. Combining the coat rack with the functionality of a shelf allows you to use the coat rack all through out the year without letting this piece of furniture gather dust and cobwebs.
So what would be great shelf and coat rack innovations for your home?
The Prepac Sonoma Entryway Cubbie Shelf and Coat Rack is one of the best looking coat rack with shelf in the market today. Available in four classy finishes (black, espresso, oak, maple) it can virtually fit in any interior arrangement prominently, or otherwise subtly. The Prepac Sonoma shelf and coat rack features three individual storage cubbies where you can hide away hats, gloves, coats, and other items whenever in use or not. Its four large double hooks are sturdy enough to hold the heaviest of coats or bags.
For a more contemporary look, try out the Safco Contempo Wall Coat Rack, which features a simplistic one piece shelf in a warm mahogany finish. The updated design of the Safco Contempo Wall Coat Rack adds style and functionality to any entryway, living room, bed room, or even office. The satin aluminum coat hooks on the Contempo are not pointed, but instead are conical in shape that adds protection to your coats from accidental tearing. They actually look like giant push pins! Let us not forget about the integrated shelf feature. The shelf can hold almost anything which range from your umbrellas, mobile devices, hats, gloves, and can even be used as a book shelf!
Coat Rack Bench
A coat rack bench combines all the style and functionality that a conventional standing coat rack, a coat rack shelf, and a storage trunk all in one fantastic piece of furniture.
As said earlier, coats are very seasonal, and you do not get to wear one all year round. You only get to wear one during cold and wet climate. Coats can easily be tucked away inside closets but whenever you need one, it can be a daunting task. Entering your dark and clunky closet is like entering a cave full of unrequited mystery – it can make you feel like your Mike and Frank from an episode of American Pickers. But you’re not picking, you’re simply getting the right stuff for the right moment.
Coat rack benches eliminates the need to enter your thwarted bat cave and lets you go on through the day warm and dry with a smile on your face. Coat rack benches provide an easy access storage where you can instantly tuck in seasonal clothing such as pea coats, rain coats, scarves, bonnets, gloves, etc. The storage box feature not only serves as containers but as your resting/changing bench as well.
As in the French Country Hall Tree Storage Bench, this graceful wood coat rack bench serves as a coat rack, storage trunk, and a seat, all in one piece of furniture. This coat rack bench or ‘hall tree’ may consume quite some space because of its sheer size (the size of a China cabinet or bedroom dresser), but you can never pass out the sheer welcoming warmth it can bring to any home entryway.
The French Country Hall Tree is embellished with beautiful antique bronze finished hooks where you can hang at least 5 coats, hats, scarves, or bags. For a further sophisticated look, the top panel is accentuated with mirrored panels, and the top ‘crown’ can also serve as an additional shelf. Every French Country Hall Tree Storage Bench is hand-finished too.
For another great welcoming piece to any classical home, the Treasure Hall Tree is yet another contender. Like the French Country Hall Tree, this coat rack doubles as a seat/storage trunk. It also has a mirrored panel above the aluminum hooks that can hold at least five coats, umbrellas, hats, and whatnots. It has a subtle top crown where you can also store various objects or display plants, photographs, or other valuable collectibles.
Modern Coat Rack
Digressing from the typical classical styling of classical coat racks, modern coat racks add a dash of attitude, playfulness, and sophistication to any home.
Modern design commonly upholds the following characteristics:
‘form follows function’, elimination of unnecessary details; minimalist, ‘truth to materials’, adoption of industrially produced materials, visual expression of structure; exposure of vertical and horizontal lines
Modernism embodies architectural minimalism, which means that everything should be highly simplistic yet very stylish and functional at the same time. A piece of modern furniture’s form must faithfully follow the function of the piece. For example, if a coat rack is made to look like a coat rack, then it must be a coat rack, etc.
Modern coat racks are extremely visually appealing, and can even serve as independent works of art on their own when not in use. It is already an established fact that coats are seasonal, so in order for coat racks to be efficient, they should serve other purposes other than just hold coats.
Take into consideration the Symbol Coat Rack by Desu Design – not only is it a coat rack during the cold or rainy days, it can hang alone as a purely aesthetic piece during the coatless months of summer. It features a simplistic white horizontal panel that consists of 9 either colorful or monochrome drop down latches that serve as your coat hooks. These vertical lines are not spaced equally just to give it an artistic depth. The latches are made from anodized metal – the same material they use on carabiners suitable for mountain climbing. If full-sized adults rely their lives on anodized metal clips, you can be sure that these anodized hooks can support any coat no matter how heavy it can be.
The Performa Garderobe is yet another modern coat rack that lives a double life. Functional as a coat rack and shelf, aesthetic as an abstract piece of art on its own. The Garderobe wall mounted coat rack features a square back panel accentuated with horizontal lines that run across the board. The horizontal lines not only serve as design but actually are nonrestrictive slots where you can attach adjustable hooks, clothes rails, and shelf, just about anywhere on the linoleum board. The hooks and shelves are made from stainless steel that adorns the linoleum panel no matter what color it is from the available 16 finishes.
Wrought Iron Coat Rack
Wood isn’t the only material that just emanates nostalgia and class – so is wrought iron. Wrought iron is an iron alloy that has a very low carbon content which makes it very fibrous. This fibrous consistency of wrought iron gives it a “grain” that can resemble wood, which can be very visible when the iron is etched or bent to the extent of near breakage. Wrought iron is very tough, and unlike wood, is highly malleable and ductile.
Throughout history, wrought iron is on of the most common iron products to be used commercially. It was mainly used in manufacturing nuts, bolts, wires, chains, rivets, horseshoes, handrails, roof trusses, ornamental ironwork, swords, cutlery, axes, chisels, springs, files, and other edged tools. By the 1860s, wrought iron was also used in the construction of ironclad warships and railways.
What’s the difference between wrought iron and cast iron? Well, the names are a giveaway – cast iron products are created by using casts to mold iron while wrought iron products are created by being worked (wrought) by hand.
Wrought iron is commonly used in classic furniture pieces such as coat racks (standing or wall mounted), but in modern furnishings as well.
One of the most popular wrought iron standing coat racks would be the CBK Limited Casa Cristina Tuscan Wrought Iron Coat Tree, which embodies elegance and simplicity. Inspired by Emmy Award winning television journalist Cristina Saralegui, this standing coat rack emanates the style, charm and sophistication Saralegui shares with his viewers. At first glance, the Tuscan Wrought Iron Coat Tree looks like a lamp post that ideally fits in with some cobbled street somewhere in London. With this wrought iron coat tree, you can bring nostalgia right into your home.
The Southern Enterprises Scroll Hall Tree just emanates sheer elegance through its intricate hand-finished scrollwork design. Rustic and very graceful, this wrought iron standing coat rack is not only beautiful but very functional too. The Southern Enterprises Scroll Hall Tree features 16 intricate decorative scrolls around the top that doubles as coat hooks which can not only hold coats of any size or thickness, but hats, and bags as well.
The lower rack is divided into four sections where you can easily and effortlessly organize umbrellas and other items. The scrolled base is broader to provide stability. The Southern Enterprises coat rack is available in a classy black finish that can suitably complement any home design, interior or exterior.
Metal Coat Rack
Metal is one of the primary materials used in modern furniture because of its flexibility, malleability, and industrial beauty. Metal can also be cheaper than would yet would not fall back when it comes to reliability and durability. With the threat of deforestation due to overlogging and illegal logging at hand, wood is steadily becoming more precious and it would be wasteful in a way to use wood for coat racks when we could use metal instead.
Metal may not be at the same league as wood when it comes to class and sophistication, but metal is beautiful and sophisticated in its own way when shaped, molded, worked, and wielded properly.
The fascinating characteristic of metal is that, it can almost be molded, folded, flexed, bended, or cut into almost any form or shape. The Pulpo Drop just exemplifies the creativity one can exert into making a metal coat rack. This fun wall mounted coat rack appears to be dripping liquid right off your wall! This would be a fun accent to any home that houses residents that want to live a unique and spunky lifestyle.
Each ‘drip’ on the Pulpo Drop features an integrated hook where you can hang your coats, keys, hats, etc. Leaving it empty as it is during the coatless Summer season would just be as fun and perfect! It is also available in different sizes from small ones for gloves or mittens, to extra large ones for coats and just about everything!
Another eccentric, artistic, and minimalist metal coat rack creation is the Born in Sweden Coat Rack which features hooks that are seemingly “peeled” from the wall itself. Crafted from a single sheet of rigid, powder-coated steel, this interesting piece will not only hold coats, scarves, and hats for you, it can also hold your imagination. The clean lines on this coat rack can complement any modern interior. The varied hook sizes and depths also allows you to hang coats of various sizes and thickness. The Born in Sweden Coat Rack is available in 5 sleek finishes – black, white, red, green, and purple.
Suitable for any entryway or children’s bedroom is the Invotis Orange Studio Coat Hanger that takes its inspiration from paper men cut-outs that joined hands to form a human chain. This innovative and fun wall mounted coat rack may seem like a funny joke, but this unassuming metal wall accessory can hold onto almost anything given to the 5 intertwined men – coats, shawls, scarves, hats, bags, etc. It can even hold on to your good day too.
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