slo’s MONDAY 1/27 poll - Shoe Cabinet

[SueInBoston]

I am very organized. I have a different version of that cabinet and it is great. I have it by the door for everyday shoes. I don't put any boots there. I also have a 7 feet long 4 level shelving system in the hall closet for shoes. I hang my boots with clip hooks. Shoes was my guilty pleasure, at one point I own over 100 pairs. Fancy shoes (wedding type) goes in dust bag on the floor of my closet.

 

[NYCgrrl]

I’m extremely shoe organized; it’s an anal retentive thingie, lol.
They’re on a rack similar to the one pictured above but with more metal, less particleboard and longer. I’ve two racks but one was for the other “shoe deprived” frmr residents.
I suppose I’ll eventually give one rack to DGD but not until she returns my leopard print crocs. Yes, I succumbed to the sheer fugliness of them when I began physical therapy. Thought they were a great way to scare me into getting better soonest. But a certain young lady needed them to go swimming and left them at someone’s house.
Thank goodness I still have the zebra striped ones

 

[CynBeth]

I said somewhat organized because I do not have a lot of shoes but do not use a shoe holder. The ones I wear the most sit by my sink in the bathroom and the others are on the floor of the closet.

 

[lovesmurfs]

Our new house has a walk-in closet. No shoe closet, but extra space that I didn't have.

It used to be that I had to get on my hands and knees deep in my dormer closet to find a pair of shoes, particularly ones I don't wear often. But now, they're all lined up under one of the hangers and I generally don't have a problem any more, especially since I got rid of a LOT of shoes. Every month or so I do need to tidy because late at night I tend to just toss the shoes in the general area of where they should be.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

First off...I am a very shoe obsessed person. My dad used to call me "Imelda" because of my obsession and her massive collection.

Second...I am not very well organized, do not have anything like the picture and would probably require a dedicated shoe closet to even attempt to keep them all straight. That being said, I have never been one for keeping things in place. So, I could have the most perfect shoe storage in the world and the stuff in regular rotation would likely still be strewn all over the floor.

Third...I do try and keep them in 'regions.' One closet has all of my shorter boots. One area under my bed has sandals, flats, and flip flops. One area is more outdoorsy stuff. A small section of a different closet as tall boots. There's the section with sneakers that sort of bleeds into a central area of things I wear with greater frequency.

I recently went through everything and donated a lot of what I'm not wearing and can't see myself wearing again. So, I'm down to around 50 pairs. It's so rare that we go into the office (like once every 2 months or so) that my collection has grown on the casual side and is slowly fading away on the more dressy side.

 

[ronandannette]

I’m “my kind of organized” with my shoes & boots but it might not pass anybody else’s muster. I have about 25 pairs and if you asked me about any specific one, I could tell you generally where it is. None of them are currently on the floor in the entryway (or anywhere else that I might have kicked them off) and that’s the highest standard I care to keep.

 

[jo-jo]

I'm pretty much like @jo-jo above. Fir the most part I have 3 pair of shoes now, oldest, older, newest. Same shoe. Marie says, why don't I get a different style. Because I like this one, works well for me. I had more, dress shoes, before I retired. Oi do have a small shoe rack in the closet.

Yes, exactly. I’ve bought too many sneakers felt good in store. Three days later, awful. Or found good style/ brand……a year or two later, they no longer carried XYZ style. Need to hunt again.

Found my sneaker…….bought 7 or 8 pairs. I’m good for a couple more years. I go thru a few pairs a year. When my everyday gets too awful, they become gardening shoe. Church sneakers become everyday. New pair becomes church sneakers.

 

[disneychrista]

I don’t own enough shoes to need a cabinet.

 

[TippyThomas]

I don’t own enough shoes to need a cabinet.

I was just getting to the end of the thread to type the exact same thing.

 

[TCRAIG]

I have way way too many shoes and sneakers and sandals to keep in a shoe cabinet…so I have a whole walk in closet for them. Dress shoes are kept in individual boxes, flip flops are kept in color coded bins, sneakers are in another bin, ballet flats in another, Skecher slip ins are in another, slippers in another, boots are in individual boxes, dressy sandals are in clear boxes (2 pair per box), etc. I easily have over 200 pairs of shoes (counting flips and sneakers).

 

[georgina]

DH has one of those IKEA shoe things, he is more organized than I am. I have an open shelving shoe thing that I use for shoes I don't wear often or wrong season, like summer sandals.. I don't have a whole lot of shoes. I have a few pairs of shoes on the first floor by the door, a pair in the kitchen (2nd floor), and the rest around the bedroom (3rd floor). I mostly wear slippers around the house

 

[Forevermarypoppins]

Slo, you have more shoes than me!

SAD, I love shoes, but...........always the but. It started at a young age because I have a wide foot. As a young adult, I couldn't afford a lot of shoes and then the reason was "where /when am I going to wear them".
Now, I wear comfy walking shoes in the cooler months, or my grey Sketcher boots. When it's warm, I like open toe sandals!

 

[MommaKetch]

I answered that I am very organized but don't own a cabinet. We recently moved, and this house has an extra closet off of the master bath with shelves that I use for shoes. I don't think it was planned that way, but it works for me. I arrange by type and color family, although I mostly wear Uggs in winter, Birkenstocks once it warms, loafers for dressing up, and sneakers for Disney and walking. I had collapsing shelves on the floor under my clothes in our previous home. Those are now in our mudroom.

 

[RedAngie]

The previous owner of my house had shelves, drawers, sliding bins, etc. built in the walk-in closet. There is enough shelving for all my footwear, about 40 pairs.

DH has a smaller closet and he bought one of those put-it-together yourself shoe shelves at Target or Walmart for his dozen or so pairs of shoes.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Yes, exactly. I’ve bought too many sneakers felt good in store. Three days later, awful. Or found good style/ brand……a year or two later, they no longer carried XYZ style. Need to hunt again.

Found my sneaker…….bought 7 or 8 pairs. I’m good for a couple more years. I go thru a few pairs a year. When my everyday gets too awful, they become gardening shoe. Church sneakers become everyday. New pair becomes church sneakers.

Yes, they move down the line and finally out. Three pair work for me.

 

[leebee]

I'm organized in my own way. All I wear is Crocs. They are all my bad knees, flat feet, pronated ankles, and bowed tibias can handle. If I wear anything else, I immediately have cramps in my hips and legs; even just trying on shoes in a store will trigger this. It gets sexier... I have arch supports in my Crocs! I have one pair of dress shoes and it's always a nightmare when I have to wear them (DD's wedding #1- the story is legend- so for wedding #2 she asked me to PLEASE wear the Crocs!). I have many pairs, favorites being gold glitter, silver glitter, and my Harry Potter glitter crocs that are green/blue/purple, depending on how you look at them!

All my shoes are either on a shoe mat in the front hall, or lined up in front of my armoire in my bedroom. Ooops, there are 2 pairs and my sneakers lined up under the drop-leaf desk, too, so my shoes are aligned in 2 or 3 different places. There is NO WAY I'd take the time to remove shoes and place them in order in a shoe cabinet... I know me!

 

[tvguy]

1) Dress shoes in the closet
2) Walking shoes under the chair in the bedroom
3) Shoes for working in the yard (worn out walking shoes) next to door from kitchen to garage

No need for a shoe cabinet.

Okay, I do have 2 more pairs of former walking shoes, that were working in the yard shoes that I need to throw out.

 

[firefly_ris]

Everyday sneakers, flip flops and sandals go in the shoe cabinets by the door to the garage. With 5 people each with multiple pairs of various everyday shoes and no real mud room at either entrance, I HAVE to have a way to organize shoes or else it would be chaos. The current shoe bins are two wall-mounted IKEA shoe bins.

"Special" shoes -- dress shoes, golf shoes, slippers etc. go in each respective person's closet since they are not used every single day.

Winter boots, work boots and creek boots go in the garage on a wooden shelf thing my husband built.

There are a lot of shoes to go around!!

 

[NC Belle]

My boots and a worn out pair shoes are on a rack by the front door. 2 pairs up in the living room by my laptop... 2 dress flats in their boxes/other. My other sets of shoes are in my storage unit.

 

[CdnCarrie]

Shoes (except for rarely worn dress shoes) do not belong in bedroom closets.
Canadian houses for the most part have closets by the front door.
That is where shoes and boots and outerwear is kept.
We have a shoe rack in the front entrance closet.