Ideas for storing your shoes in a small apartment
Men and women love to collect shoes ... But when you live in a cramped interior, knowing where to put them away can quickly become a real headache! Here are 10 tips that will help you find a place for them by using the vertical surfaces and the lost space of your home.
5 storage ideas vertically
A quick and inexpensive solution is to buy elastic straps that you will set under each other on a wall . You can store many pairs of shoes without their boxes, which will save you a lot of space!
Then you can hang them vertically behind a door. 2 options: either you screw the bars on it and hang your shoes by the heels, or you dread to punch holes in the door and, in this case, you will choose a plastic pouch to hang that you garnish with pair of shoes.
Always in the optics to exploit the verticality of the apartment, chinez a beautiful wooden ladder that you can repaint to harmonize with the colors of your apartment. Put it against a wall and voila, you have an original shoe rack!
Shoe boxes take up a lot of space. Take out the pairs and hang them on some rods with hooks that you have attached to a wall in your dressing room, for example. You have no hidden space? No problem, opt for cork plates that you customize beautifully. Hang them on the wall and add over metal fasteners in which you will staple your shoes. Aesthetic, and practical!
Finally, you can once again exploit the available surface on a wall without encroaching on that of the room, creating a shelf 40 centimeters deep . Buy a PVC tube, which you cut into as many slices as you want. Hang them together and then against the wall. Original, is not it?
5 tips to exploit lost space
The staircase is often neglected while offering sensible storage solutions! For example, you can create drawers in the risers in which you will store your shoes. The entire height available under the stairs can also be transformed into a closet. If you are only a tenant and do not want to invest in the manufacture of this furniture, put a pair of shoes per step, you will optimize a place of passage.
An unused recess so far can also turn into a shoe closet. Attach a corrugated shelf to the wall on which you will stow your shoes and to make it invisible, install a curtain in front.
Another space we do not think of is the one above the closet. Yes, the clothes are hanging at a height where it is easy to take them and, from the top of your wardrobe to the ceiling, the surface is lost. A simple trick is to fix shelves on which you put your pairs of shoes . Leave a stool nearby!
In the same way, the space under the bed is rarely exploited . You can however buy plastic boxes or a cover in which you slip your shoes. You can kill two birds with one stone with a palette, create a pretty piece of furniture at the foot of the bed that will also serve as storage for your most beautiful pairs of shoes or sneakers. All you have to do is to nail a few palettes next to each other and presto, voila! Here you are in possession of an aesthetic and practical furniture. If you prefer, you can hide the shelves under a cloth.
Finally, all the furniture is potentially a loss of surface. For example, why not turn your coffee table into furniture two in one that is also shoe storage ? All that is needed is to create a tower in which the pairs of shoes will find their place and which will serve as a foot for the table top. In the same way, you can buy chaise lounges that conceal storage boxes, just lift the seat of the furniture to get your favorite pair of shoes.