We needed a front hall coat rack because we have a puppy in-training who is temporarily confined much of the time to our coatroommudroom until he is housebroken.  This rack is nice looking and very sturdy, also easy to assemble.  The only slight problem is that the rounded coat pegs are mostly too large to hang coats by their own sewn-in hooks - you have to drape the coats over the pegs.