40 Ingenious Ways To Store Your Shoe Collection!
Taming an ever expanding shoe collection can be quite a Herculean challenge, especially when your family members are absolutely nuts over shoes!
In fact, shoe storage is one of the most overlooked areas during the renovation process. This is because many homeowners failed to realize that shoe storage goes beyond shelves and simple cabinets. Furthermore, apart from the volume of shoes, aesthetics and functionality, the other factors which will affect your choice of shoe storage solution include the types of shoes you have and their usage frequency.
Therefore, you should spend some time deliberating and planning how best to store and display the shoes with your renovation professionals.
Nevertheless, I have gathered 40 gorgeous stylish and practical shoe storage ideas, from custom shelving, re-purposed wooden crates to vintage cabinets! Hopefully by observing how other shoe fanatics display and organise their precious stiletto and sneaker collections, you can find inspiration for creating your very own dream shoe closet!
Re-purposed Wooden Crates & Pallets
Re-purposed old wooden crates and pallets are excellent, inexpensive shoe storage solutions, especially for slippers and sneakers. In addition, they are easily replaceable once they are dirty.
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Horizontal Poles & Rods
Instead of shelves, horizontal poles and rods make surprisingly good alternatives for organizing and displaying shoes. They are suitable for flats, pumps, sneakers and even stilettos!
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Ladders
Ladders are surprisingly versatile; aside from using them to hand towels in the bathroom, they can be used to hang and display your prized stiletto collection elegantly.
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Shoe Hangers & Wall Hooks
Shoes hangers are excellent compact shoe storage solution for slippers and even sneakers. Wall hooks keeps your shoe collections off the ground.
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Re-purposed Coat Racks
Apparently, coat racks are also especially useful for organizing boots and even sneakers!
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Wall-mounted Steel Rack
Get your renovation professionals to customize a steel rack to display your shoe collection against the wall. This solution saves floor space and flaunts your shoe collection at the same time. The steel rack solution should work with heels, pumps, sneakers and even low cut boots.
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Lazy Susan Shoe Rack
Build a rotatable lazy susan rack for your shoes with the help of your renovation professionals!
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Industrial looking Copper Pipes
Homeowners who intend to use industrial interior theme in their homes would find customized industrial styled shoe rack made from copper pipes simply irresistible!
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Wired Racks
Due to hygiene reasons, you should only consider storing your new pairs of shoes in the wardrobe.
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Slim wall mounted entry way shoe cabinets
IKEA Trones offers the slimmest shoe cabinet solution for homeowners with narrow entry ways.
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Mobile Shoe Caddy
RÅSKOG utility cart from Ikea makes an excellent mobile shoe storage solution!
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Curtain with Wall-mounted Wire Shoe Racks
A small nook in your bedroom can be utilized for shoe collection storage. However due to hygiene reasons, you should only consider storing your new pairs of shoes in the bedroom.
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Re-purposed File Organiser
Recycle your old file organisers by using them to keep your flats organised!
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Vintage Cabinet
If your shoe collection is small enough, a two tiered vintage cabinet can also be used as shoe cupboard.
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Pebble Shoe Tray
A pebble tray is useful for catching drips, sand and dirt from shoes and boots.
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Baskets are usually recommended for in-door shoes only since they are not easy to wash and traps dirt easily.
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Over The Door Clear Shoe Organizer cum Storage
The clear plastic pockets let you see the contents within easily. Since the plastic pockets can trap dirt, this solution is only recommend for new shoes due to hygiene considerations.
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Pull out Shoe Drawers
Pull out shoe drawer makes it easy for you to access the shoes.
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Re-purposed PVC Pipes
There are many types of home projects that make use of simple and cheap PVC pipes and one of them is for storage of shoes!
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Toddler Shoe Storage
Toddler shoes are much easier to store and display due to their sizes!
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