Hallway & entryway furniture
Sized for the narrowest room in the house, with the depth published before the price.
Nothing listed here yet
This part of the catalogue is still being photographed and measured. Pieces are added once every dimension, material and lead time on the page is verified.
Choosing hallway furniture
A hallway is the one room bought furniture routinely fails to fit. It is narrow, it usually has a door swinging into it, and the piece has to leave enough clear width for two people to pass. Before looking at anything on this page, measure three things: the width of the wall the piece will sit against, the depth you can give up without blocking the route through, and the arc of any door that opens into that space. As a rule of thumb, leave at least 90 cm of clear passage once the furniture is in place, and check that the door still opens fully.
Depth is the specification that matters most here and the one most listings leave out. A shoe bench at 40 cm deep and one at 30 cm look almost identical in a photograph and behave completely differently in a 1.2 metre hallway. Every piece in this category publishes its depth alongside its width and height, in centimetres and inches.
For shoe storage specifically, the useful number is not the outside size but the internal compartment height, because that is what decides whether boots fit or only flat shoes do. Where a listing gives internal dimensions, check them against the tallest pair you actually need to put away. A unit that takes trainers but not winter boots is half a solution.
If the piece doubles as seating, the seat height is worth checking too: somewhere around 45 cm suits most adults for putting shoes on, and a bench much lower than that becomes hard to get up from with a bag in one hand.