Smallest way possible to store shoes in the hallway...

[Goandplay]

Any ideas?

Our hall is tiny but it's a losing battle to expect everyone to take their shoes somewhere else in the house. Tried a basket but they look tatty.

I had a wine-rack left over after a kitchen refit. It's great. One shoe in each bottle-space and looks fine.

Otherwise, I'd try small shelves, possibly fixed to the legs of hall table.

We have got an old bookcase/open shelving unit, not divisions as these just take up more space I think, but long shelves (about 5ft) and it's about 3ft tall, and has got four shelves.

It isn't deep enough for my grown up shoes but fits the kids' ones perfectly. Only about 8-9 inches out from the wall - it fits along a little hallway into their bedroom, without getting in the way.

What I'd do is measure your shoes, seriously - how long they are - and then make, or buy some simple open shelves that are the right depth, and put them all on there.

Mine actually get stored in my bedroom, which is next to the hall (flat) and mostly under the bed!! (not so great)

Oh and I doubt you'll need something so long/tall, either - I use ours to store all the too-big-at the moment shoes, as well, for them to grow into - I keep some, if they haven't been worn much, for the younger ones. There must be about 40 pairs on there.

we've got a shoe rack from lakeland
in fact we have two stacked on top of each other in our tiny hall
dos the job

yes, the divisions would take up more space, but the wine-rack "pigeonholes" do keep them very neat and stop them getting jumbled up. I suppose with small soft shoes you might squash two into a hole.

I just happened to have it handy and am very pleased with the result.

It sounds great PJ. Ours was just handy, as well. Whenever I buy something for a purpose, it always gets usurped by something else that we find in a skip or just had lurking in the cellar already...so I'm reluctant to pay for stuff like this now!

My friends have a 'shoe shelf' very high up in their hallway. It must be 2 metres long. It is painted the same colour as the walls and as it is above the eye line iyswim, you don't even notice it.

Not ideal for all houses though :)