This week during the Spring Cure we're looking into landing strips: those small spaces in an apartment where the outside world gets sorted into an organized, manageable system. We'll be featuring some inspiring landing strips on AT over the next few days, but we thought we'd start with the simplest possible solution...
...a few wall hooks. It's surprising how much you can do with wall hooks. Hanging a couple in an entryway can give you space for a bag, coat, scarf, keys, and umbrella. Choose a spot on the floor for shoes (or hang them up by the laces), add a mail sorter, and you're all set.
Related Links:
• Wall Hooks: Hang it Up
• The Anti-Closet
• Offbeat Entryways
Photo: Orla Kiely
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I'm really not loving the term "landing strip". A little too cute/annoying for me. Is that seriously what we're all calling it now?
Oh well, I like the hooks idea anyway...
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it makes me think of the popular bikini-wax style.
i LOVE that dress! where's it from?
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goodnightdean - that's from orla kiely, source of all things good in the world (i may be exaggerating a tiny bit). but it looks like it may be from a previous season.
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Where do those coat hooks come from?
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i think they were selling that dress at anthropologie a few months ago...
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I thought a landing strip should accomodate mail and a bit of filing like bills to pay and invitations. This doesn't really seem to hold much at all.
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I don't care about the landing strip .. I just want the dress!
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goodnightdean- me too! the term makes me squirm.
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Hanging shoes by their laces means you're faced with shoes as you walk past. How on earth could this be a good thing?
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looks like an orla kiely print to me
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where are those hooks from??
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I usually leave my dress on when I come home from work.
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too funny P2! : )
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