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Shoe Storage - Suggestions Please

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extremelychocolateymilkroll · 18/01/2010 12:41

We've got a cupboard in the hall where we keep our coats and at the moment we just shove our shoes in the bottom of the cupboard and then have to rummage around to get them out. Can you suggest any shoe racks which might be suitable? TIA

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isthatporridgeinyourhair · 18/01/2010 22:27

Ikea have loads of shoe racks and cupboards which you might want to have a look at.

swanriver · 19/01/2010 09:03

My lists are feeling more and more unwieldy

Things going well
telly free Mon-Wed
homework
instrument practice
meal planning - and general food organisation
shiny sink
laundry and sheet changing
exercise
paperwork coming into house
bathroom cleaning

Things going still very badly
calendar
making beds
toyclutter
hall/coat shoe clutter
old paperwork clutter and longterm filing
dealing with car
scheduling in time to bake, read, piano practise or visit friends

well in the cold light of day - it's obvious - just need to get the boring things out of the way a bit quicker and stop dithering/being rabbit in headlights
off I go

swanriver · 19/01/2010 09:05

oh sorry wrong thread....
yes and I find shoes difficult too..
especially need a place for muddy ones and wellingtons (perhaps somesort of draining rack?)

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 19/01/2010 10:50

Argos do lots of shoe storage shelves.

And we keep a welly rack (I think from GLTC) outside the front door

misscph1973 · 19/01/2010 13:59

I have an over doors shoe and accessories hanging thing made of cloth, it's really good, got it on ebay. It even takes children's boots.

BlueKangerooWonders · 19/01/2010 14:04

Shoe racks and shelves have never worked for my dc. Now all dc shoes go in an Ikea (recycling!) box in the cupboard under the stairs, apart from school shoes which have to live next to the front door Sun-Thurs.

Even dh is more of a throw-into-cupboard sort instead of placing-on-a-shoe-rack AFraid it's only me who puts them neatly side by side!

OurLadyOfPerpetualSupper · 19/01/2010 14:40

Yes, I have to say that they only make it on to the rack in the cupboard when I scoop them up and put them there.

We also have a lidded basket by the back door where they can be chucked, and a pull-down cabinet thing in the utility room, as well as a cupboard in the hall.

It's a constant battle, 5 of us all with several pairs each (including sports shoes), and that's with most of mine in my wardrobe.

We're actually thinking of having a back porch built just to keep it all out of the house.

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