I’m trying to tidy up this morning and get the house ready for Spring/Easter.
We don’t have a hallway. Our front door opens straight into the house. Any help/advice please for where to store shoes and coats. We have an under stairs cupboard, which although narrow can house a small shoe rack and a few coats but not nearly enough for our needs. I do envy those with a Mud Room. 
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Have you given any thought about building a porch onto the front of your house? I did that around 10yrs ago and have never regrated that building project. It’s 2M x 3M and according to Mrs LD, was the best idea I had since retiring 
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Yes, we have thought about that but permission was rejected. We have shared drainage with next door and also the boiler housing and meters are out the front. Not allowed to be enclosed into the living area.
I have a long hallway , but I do not keep my coat or shoes in there , The Porch and hall is the first rooms the visitor sees,Its my pet hate to see Coats and Shoes in the Hall and piled shoes in the porch .
So my coat goes back in my Wardrobe in the bedroom where its always kept , and my shoes and boots go in a blanket Box also in the bedroom .
What you have to remember @User_one is having your outdoor shoes and coats on show will make any room look smaller .
Hence my reason for asking. Visitors just remove coats and shoes and throw them over a chair or kick them to the side. I feel helpless that I have nowhere to stow these things. I have thought of a Monk’s bench, maybe, but then I’m worried in case it just gets used as a regular dumping ground. Personally, I’m with you @Eliza , shoes, coat, hat, whatever goes straight back where it came from. I was just wondering how everyone else dealt with this problem.
I guess we are lucky to have a long hallway: coat hooks on the wall behind the front door and more hooks halfway down, kind of half under the stairs.
Get two or three dogs. Every room becomes a Mud Room.
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Can you put a row of hooks om one of your walls ?
Hilarious 
Unfortunately not @Besoeker
One side has a door into another room and a floor to ceiling radiator, the other side is the open living space 
Ah, understood.
Move house, we are now living in our 5th move.
buy a “female” architect designed next time! 
Ha ha
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