i'd love to be greeted by a shelf full of booze every time i come home!

Well, that lead pic will certainly get the party started every night.

I'm actually planning to do this with the Ikea SKÄR unit. Going to mount it on the wall sans legs right by the front door. Since it's just the two of us this will hold shoes, wallet, change and keys no problem. Only drawback is no purse storage.

Me, too. I'd just drop my purse, mail, and keys on the floor under that.

While I love these, our front door is only used when guests come and most of the time everyone uses our back door which enters into poorly laid out stairs and a door into kitchen. So, there is absolutely no space for a landing strip. Which means my dining table and counter in kitchen is where the mail lands. I hate it. This is why we have to build a small mudroom.

I think you are as much in favor of a "landing routine" as you are a "landing strip." The former is more about what we do and how we do it and the latter is where we do it. As noted in some other posts about landing strips, individuals' place of residences can almost always be configured to a landing routine even if they may not be able to embrace an actual landing strip.

I hate landing strips. They always look so hodgepodge lodge or ikea tack on to me. Can someone please write a post on how to make a landing strip look expensive and classy? I really don't want an area of my apartment to look like a mudroom.

@Felttipjr Do you have room to use a piece of furniture near the entrance? A well placed dresser can contain everything without having anything out in the open and keep a modern and minimal look while keeping the same function Set a vase with flowers on it and your guests are greeted beautifully but your necessary items are stashed out of sight.

There's something very droll about the first picture. I had to laugh.

True, it WOULD be a good place for leaving "entry essentials". ;)

I am more of a hollywood regency glam sort of like mad men

https://www.etsy.com/listing/118802762/9-inch-shiny-brass-pineapple-trinket-box

currently looking for a cool bar cart

mel

A landing strip is more of an 'idea' than a 'thing', and in most small-home situations I think that integrating a landing strip AREA with an already existing piece of furniture makes makes a lot more sense than buying one of these silly wall cabinet things.

I am a shoddy example of this, as currently my 'landing strip' is one cube of a- gasp- Closetmaid cube thing that screens my sleeping area from view when one enters my studio apartment. Mail (in small 2 section sorter for "need to deal with" [and my checkbook] and "keep but no action needed"), change (quarters in a small dish for laundry, everything else in a gold ceramic owl bank), keys (on hooks screwed into the inside of a cubby), and a milk glass planter full of pens. Its handy- and thus used- but discrete because its not in a place that any visitor would notice.

I had already started in on The Cure and felt relieved when it came to Landing Strip day, because I already have my own unique solution. My computer bag sits on the top of the subwoofer next to the stereo, and everything else goes on top of the designer catbox:

http://www.moderncatdesigns.com/contemporary-litter-box-hider/

It's a little unconventional, but you have to make do with the space you have in a 500sf space. Most guests think it's a table and never even notice that it's a little box until they see my kitty go in or out.

I'd like some of these options as nightstands in my small bedroom. I especially like #2.

these seem excessively expensive for the most part.
I will have to see if there is room for a 4 inch deep one and make it ( possibly a hack from an ikea product in office supplies or similar)