The Big Shoe Debacle

I don’t know about you, but between my husband and I we have way too many shoes. We also seem to have a problem with putting away our shoes. In the past we always had the excuse that there was nowhere to put our shoes. I know, it is not a good excuse.

When we moved into our new house, I thought the downstairs coat closet would make a perfect home for our shoes. As you can see in the picture below, finding a home for our shoes was not our only problem.

Before
Vroom! Vroom! Yes that is a car pillow.

“This is a hot mess!”

While our house has some great features, the size of the coat closet is not one of them. The issue at hand was that we have too many shoes and not enough space. We could get rid of some shoes, but that was not going to happen.  I thought finding a solution was hopeless, until I came across a floating shoe rack found here. The floating shoe rack was the perfect idea plus it was affordable. Check out my handy work.

Floating Shoe Rack

After Picture with floating shoe rack

Unfortunately my camera work is not the greatest, but you can see that I made my own floating shoe rack (learn how to make your own floating shoe rack here) on the side part of the closet. I was a little concerned about my shoes getting scrapped up from the wood, so I glued some fabric underneath the wood. I found a traditional shoe rack that I am using in the back of the closet. As the seasons change we will just route out our shoes to the floating shoe rack for easy access. Problem solved.


What kind of shoe storage dilemmas do you have?