Home Improvement Pick

Metal Round Umbrella Stand Rack, Free Standing Entryway Holder

A narrow round bin for the inside of a front door, sized to take three to six long umbrellas standing upright instead of leaning against the wall. It is 5.8 inches across and 16.4 inches tall, so it occupies about the footprint of a shoe and still holds a full family of umbrellas. The wall is cut right through in a repeating four petal pattern, which is doing real work as well as looking like decoration: air moves through the openings, so a wet umbrella dries instead of sitting in its own puddle. The body is steel under a rust resistant coating, with enough weight low down that it does not tip when an umbrella is pulled out one handed. It takes walking canes, ski poles and rolls of gift wrap just as well, which is what tends to happen to it between rainy weeks.

What you're getting

• Takes three to six long umbrellas standing upright rather than leaning on a wall
• 5.8 inches across and 16.4 inches tall, about the footprint of a shoe
• Wall cut through in a four petal pattern so air moves and a wet umbrella dries
• Steel under a rust resistant coating, weighted low so it does not tip
• Also holds walking canes, ski poles and rolls of gift wrap

Why we picked it

The cut pattern is not only decoration. An umbrella stand is a container for wet things, and a solid walled one keeps the water in with the umbrella, which is how the inside of a stand ends up smelling. Openings through the wall let air at the fabric from every side, so what goes in wet comes out dry. The narrow diameter is the other half of it: it forces the umbrellas upright and apart instead of letting them slump together in a bundle.