I grew up in Manhattan and guest coats almost went on a bed. At every party I ever went to.

When I was growing up in the 1980s/1990s my job at the annual Christmas party was to ferry the guests' coats to the upstairs guest bedroom and lay then on the bed. As a reference point this involved a lot of furs and a large house. But large houses of the 1920s didn't come with huge closets that could accommodate 50+ coats.

It was very normal to do this where I grew up. I don't entertain as my parents did but these days I'd be a bit more worried about getting someone's bed bugs. And coats are different now. Very few of the long, heavy furs left or even full length men's camel hair coats are worn. Everyone seems to wear puffy jackets and fleeces.

I forgot that we definitely did this as kids, and my sister and I would bring the coats upstairs. These days it does seem strange. Maybe I just have a bigger coat closet and a bench nearby now than we did as kids.

We put guest coats on the bed in the spare room. Our coat closet won't hold all of our guests coats (during holiday open house for example), even if we took all of our coats out of there!

Yeah I don't like the bedroom thing either if it's a mixed crowd. Also sometimes I need something from my coat (I don't carry a bag).

We use my front closet that stays 3/4 cleaned out. I moved kids coats to a wall rack nearby and swap seasonal so there's lots of room.

Anonymous wrote:We put them in the hall closet. If we have overflow, they go in the downstairs coat closet. We clear out the closets in advance. I don’t want people in our bedrooms.

You should be retrieving coats from the closets for your guests, too. Don’t be tacky.

We put them in the hall closet. If we have overflow, they go in the downstairs coat closet. We clear out the closets in advance. I don’t want people in our bedrooms.

Anonymous wrote:If your bedrooms are upstairs, would you carry coats up there?

Sure. Well, to be honest *I* wouldn't. That's what my kids are for.

Anonymous wrote:If your bedrooms are upstairs, would you carry coats up there?

Sure!

If your bedrooms are upstairs, would you carry coats up there?

I grew up in England. WE all had small houses with no guest rooms or front closets.
Coats went on the master bed

Now we put them over the chair in the office, or in the spare room on the bed.

Anonymous wrote:We've never had a spare room, so its a non-issue.

So where do you put multiple coats when you have company?

Someone's bed is totally normal.

We've never had a spare room, so its a non-issue.

Growing up, when we would visit my grandparents, they’d take guests coats and lay them on the spare bed. My husband thinks this is the weirdest thing and insists anything other than hanging them in the hallway closet is barbaric. My parents have followed suit, and they are laid on the couch in my dad’s office. Their hallway closet runneth over with their own coats and jackets. So every time we visit, my husband is put off.

Which raises the question: Where do you put guests coats, assuming you have a full house. And, would it be off-putting to you if they were put in a spare room?