Entryway and hallway
Whether or not you have one. The first two metres of a home take the whole day's worth of shoes, post and bags, and most homes have never decided where any of it goes.
What usually goes wrong here
No landing place for keys and post
If there is nowhere obvious, everything lands on the nearest flat surface, which is usually the kitchen.
Storing every shoe by the door
Only the current season needs to be there. The rest is why the hall never looks clear.
Assuming you need a hallway
A hook, a tray and a basket work against a wall, in a corner, or on the back of the front door.
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Entryway Organisation When You Do Not Have a Hallway
How to stop the front door area becoming a pile of shoes and coats when there is no actual hall, using vertical space and one hard rule.
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Back to School Home Organization: The Five Systems That Hold
The five systems that stop school mornings falling apart, set up in an afternoon and maintained in ten minutes a week.
Printables for this room
Entryway Setup With No Hallway
Five things need a home. Everything else is optional. Vertical space and one hard rule.
Download PDF →The Five Back to School Systems
Decide these five things once in August so nobody decides them at ten past eight on a Tuesday.
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Other rooms
Kitchen
The room that decides how the whole house feels. A kitchen left overnight sets the tone for the next morning, which is why almost every workable routine starts here rather than anywhere more satisfying.
Bathroom
Small, damp, and full of bottles with nothing left in them. Bathrooms need less cleaning than people think and far more culling.
Bedroom and wardrobe
The room guests never see, so it is the room that absorbs everything else. It is also the one where a ten-minute difference is most obvious.
Desk, office and paperwork
Usually a corner of another room rather than a room of its own, which is exactly why it needs rules that a whole study would not.