The importance of an organized entryway, or landing strip, is one of our most-repeated tenets here at Apartment Therapy. They help keep your home clutter-free and your life running smoothly, and what's more important than that? If you're only going to tackle one task for Project Month, make it the addition (or improvement) of a landing strip.
Here's some of the best project inspiration, all to do with landing strips, from our archives.
The Whole Idea:
- A Guide to Slow Home Principles: The Entryway and Landing Strip
- One Minute Tip: Create a Basic Landing Strip
- Tips for Dealing With a no-Entryway Entryway
Hooks and Wall Storage:
- Wall Mounted Landing Strips
- Entryway Essential: Landing Strip Key Hooks
CHI Good Questions: Inexpensive Organizational System Alternatives?
Mailboxes, etc:
- Organization Must Have: The Mail Organizer
- 10 Vintage Housewares to Repurpose as Organizers
- Time-Saving Tip: Keep a Shredder in the Entry
Shoe Storage:
- Organizing Shoes by the Door
- A Bachelor Pad Landing Strip: Three Men & Lots of Shoes
- Creative Ways to Organize and Store Your Shoes
Entryway DIYs:
- How to Make a Mail and Jacket Front Door Organizer
- An Entryway Landing Strip with a DIY Built-in iPhone Phone Dock
- How To: Make a Pegboard Wall Organizer
(Image: Greg & Grey's Skylit Studio Loft)
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I recently finished a project to tackle the lack of an entryway in a rental apartment shared by 3 roommates where the front door leads directly into the living room and the room doesn't have a closet. Solution? Inexpensive easy to build wall panels that incorporate lighting, coat racks, a command center with a notice board and a DIY shelf/charging station for phones (hides all the cables). Just about everything in this project is DIY and you can see here how I built everything: http://bit.ly/Z7Ygmz
Huge fan of landing strips but not a fan of the one posted.
I'm a big fan of the landing strip/mud room. It's probably the one thing in my home that I'm indecisive about. It also the only place in my home you'll find sugar packets, and old door knob and a bottle of wine in the same giant bowl along with my keys. Clearly this is still a work in progress.
I don't have a landing strip. When you enter my apartment the bathroom is directly to the left, a closet straight ahead and to the left. The entry door when opened hits the fridge behind it. I would love to be able to have a table or something for my keys etc but there is no place for one.
I am searching for a few decorative hooks. If anyone has any suggestions of where I can purchase them online.
Soooooo is that an intended effect on the floor or is it really just filthy? Blegh.
The photo shows how NOT to do a landing strip, right?
I don't have room for a table or bench, so I hung an old, sectioned box on my wall by the door, complete with a couple of screw hooks in the bottom to hang keys. It's similar to this, but smaller: http://bit.ly/15EYOoG. The cubbies are perfect size for my phone, sunglasses, etc. - no floor space required. @cwyankees: Anthropologie has lots of beautiful decorative hooks and knobs.
Lol, methinks that's what's called the drestressed look. Judging by the rest of the shot which appears to be immaculate, I'd say this is clean. (or at least it WAS long enough for the photo shoot).
LOL...I was thinking the same thing about the floor.
Also, why do many of these kind of pics show totally pointless items on display? An old pulley and a bird's nest, really? Pick that stupid rope off the floor and get a Swiffer!
See the 'Before & After' on turning an under-stairs closet to a mini-office for another example of worthless clutter on display.