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Entryway & Mudroom Systems

The entryway is a processing station for everything that enters the home: shoes, bags, post, keys. This system gives each flow a landing place sized to the household — hooks per person, a tray for post, a home for shoes — so the hallway stops being the house's inbox scattered on the floor.

Start-here checklist

  1. One hook per person, at their height
  2. Post lands in a tray the day it arrives, never on a surface
  3. Shoes: a defined capacity (pairs per person), the rest stored elsewhere
  4. A small 'leave with me' spot by the door ends the morning hunt

The tool that does this system's maths

Printables generated within this system live in Printables.

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Family Command Centre & Home Paper Flow

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