These coat hooks are fantastic. I live in a very nice, but short on storage space traditional home. Main floor living plus a finished basement. Now that my kids are grown and my husband died, my eldest daughter and her husband and three children have moved into the basement help me out. But the back door has become not only a huge mess with all their coats and backpacks it's also a safety hazard. These coat racks are great because they take up very little wall space and they don't stick out unless you pull one out to use. I would recommend them to anyone with space issues and a variety of ages needing to use them. (We put a longer one up high for the grownups and the smaller down low enough for the little ones.)