Thursday, October 23, 2008

Hooks for narrow spaces

Today, I'm on the hunt for some fun hooks for our laundry room, one of the last steps in our reorganization effort. And I'm enjoying the novelty of looking for really big hooks, since they are going on a wall out of the traffic pattern. Big, fat, colorful hooks, here I come!

The last time I was on the hunt for hooks, it was for our impossibly narrow entrance hallway. (It's the exact width of the front door, plus one centimeter.) I found out about flip-down hooks and they saved us from having nowhere to hang our jackets (we don't have any closets, either). Here were my final options:

This one would look at home in a Victorian-era apartment, and look at all the hooks you get for $30:

We have one by Harrit & Sørensen, from Denmark; the shipping was a fortune but we loved it so much we spent a year imagining it on our wall before we took the leap:
There are two at the Container Store in the same vein as the Danish one we have - this one and this one, both by Umbra and much cheaper:
We almost purchased these walnut wall tile hooks by Thout; they are beautiful if pricey - around $230 when I emailed with them, more than a year ago now. Ultimately we didn't get them because I wasn't sure the way they attached to the wall would work for us.

This one goes a different direction, straight out - if you've got more space that way than width-wise:

I have no doubt I'm missing some more options out there, but this was as much Googling as I could stand when I was on the hunt. The search terms I used were 'flip down', 'fold down', and 'valet hook'. If you find another flip-down option, send it to me and I'll add it to this list. Good luck!

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