Coat Racks to Declutter Your Entryway in 2025
The discontinued Hay Beam is a good-looking rack and could be a great option for a bathroom. But with no end caps on this design, the hooks could easily slide off the frame.
The ILoveHandles Switchboard seemed like a very customizable rack but it was actually a nightmare to install. The company forgot to include the instructions with our unit. But even if the instructions had been present, we would have found it nearly impossible to get all the hooks facing the right direction long enough for us to mount the rack, and even then, the wobbly hooks made the rack hard to level.
Pottery Barn’s Lucy Coat Rack was easy to assemble, felt relatively sturdy, and was a functional 60 inches high. But we didn’t like the hooks: They felt too sharp and seemed like they could tear up a nice scarf or sweater.
The discontinued Songmics Bamboo Garment Rack looks nice and even feels sturdy once it’s up, but it was a bear for us to assemble. The shelves consist of a dozen or so bamboo slats that you need to insert individually into the end caps to hold them together. In our tests, keeping the rack together during assembly was a major hassle and felt like way too much work.
We liked the looks of the Yamazaki Tower Free Standing Hanger, but at only 55 inches high (less than 5 feet), it was too short to be functional for most people.
The Yamazaki Rin Wall-Mounted Coat Hanger is another attractive, reasonably priced ($50) rack that uses the same no-end-cap design as the Hay Beam. However, one of our editors has had three of them in her hallway, laden with coats and backpacks, for a couple of years and has yet to have a hook slide off accidentally. So if you like its look, you may want to give this rack a try.
This article was edited by Daniela Gorny and Christine Ryan.
