You love entertaining guests, so with the holidays around the corner, you’ve already begun party planning, but the one thing that always slips your mind until the eve of the fete is how you’re going to deal with an abundance of winter coats.

With spaces getting smaller, not everyone has room to store a mound of coats, and throwing them on the bed isn’t the best idea when guests are arriving with snowy, wet wardrobes.

This cluster shows some of the best ways you can store your guests’ coats, hats and gloves with style, panache or humor, or whatever your personal style need may be.