[...] If you have school age kids then you have backpacks to deal with. I definitely recommend having a designated backpack station to keep them contained and organized in one central location. I like having my kid’s backpacks right by the front door so they can drop them in their designated space as soon as they come in from school making them easily accessible on the way out. I first posted about our backpack station here. [...]

[...] front entrance ways are rarely big enough for all they need to encompass. Gosh we need room for the backpacks, the hats and mitts, the coats, the keys, the sunglasses, the shoes, the boots, the purses, an [...]

well now i did that and it doesnt look that nice. maybe its becuase my hook thinkg is to low. the back packs keep falling off. i put it sort of low so that my three year old could reach it to put her coat on. i guess i should move it higher.

by the way i love your site. the guys that lives with me and my husban (cant really call him a roommate cus he doesnt have a room, he sleeps on the coucch..we call him the mexican on the couch. he’s mexican so i hope nobody thinks im racist.but now im rambling.) but anyway he says i buy organizing stuff for my organizing stuff. to bad i’m not really organized. i just like to pretend i am. i wish i could be more like you.

but so anyway i love your site and have gotten some good ideas from it.

great idea! I wish I had a better space to hang backpacks etc.

We do this too! It really does help!

I love this idea- I know exactly where I could put that! Thank you!

Great idea… I need to adapt this idea for a station that will house my purse, shoes, my husband’s wallet and keys, the baby bag, etc…. Love it.

Great idea. We have something similar.

I have a similar spot by my front door, just that I have two baskets, one for each of them, where they drop their gloves, hats, scarves in the winter, and in the summer, hats, water bottles etc.

Great idea :)

Mine looks kind of like that, except with a lot more coats and stuff!