Admittedly, this is less about utility and more about the element of surprise and aesthetics, but we love this store display of old furnishings mounted onto the wall, used as part display, part storage. Not many of us have a whole room to convert into a unique walk-in closet (though this is obviously a clothing retailer), but this blend of display and storage is playfully inspiring...
We wished we had a garage so we could collect and keep vintage/thrift store furnishings like this project by Sloom & slordig. We'd have a wall collection of credenzas and Midcentury stereo cabinets (personally our favourite furnishing pieces).
The idea isn't so crazy when we remember that one of our favourite Smallest Coolest entries ever had chairs stored and displayed on the wall. You'd just have to be really, really sure you mount them securely on studs, or your collection might literally bring down the house.
Small Cool Lessons: Discovering Small Space Design Ideas That Really Work
Beatriz's Fun & Functional Workspace
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The Big Book of Small, Cool Spaces 
Apartment Therapy Presents 
The Eight-Step Home Cure 
Sheex Bedding
How to Cook Rice on the Stove
How to Make Fresh Pasta Dough in the Food Processor
Absurd - and not very practical.
Practically absurd. Yes.
This doesn't work for me, and did you say this was a retail shop? Used store, they clothing looking dingy. The furniture pieces are interesting, and bring the eye to the top. Other than that, doesn't work for me.
i think it's great.
It's actually a pretty practical idea if you have a large wall to be used for clothing storage, but you have a limited amount of depth space available. It'd be much more interesting to stack a few clothing hanger hooks, rather than just have a long clothing rod.
Or, you know, you can just be negative about everything. :)
whatever......
Poor use of retail space. Detracts from the clothes. Confusing, are they selling clothes or furniture or both. Clothes look sloppy and wrinkled. Not carefully displaced. Colors are haphazard. No focus on the merchandise. Enough
don't do that.
Horrible...I think I would stop being friends with someone if they invited me over for the first time and their house was decorated this way...
A few pieces mounted I think I couuld forgive but this is just horrible overkill...
does anyone know where i can find clothes rods like the ones in the picture? I have a tiny closet and having my clothes rod vertically would allow me to store more clothes. please help!