• Now I want to get a nice shoe-storage bench and some coat racks for the stuff that's in current use so we can start actually using the space as it was intended.

    Just been looking for this kind of thing. The usual suspects were mostly hopeless for it but there is some nice stuff on Etsy, i.e. this and this.

  • those are lovely, and the bench/shoe storage merge is really nice, only issue I can see would be, whether there is actually enough space for shoes in there?
    Maybe I own more shoes than you, but I think you'd run our of useable shoe space pretty quickly in those, as you migrate not just the everyday shoes there, but also the "want to wear, but never get a chance to wear them" there as well..

  • Yeah. I ordered something similar but £200 to test the concept out. Will put some coat hooks in to the wall behind it and some shelves above those with storage boxes for shoe-a-geddon.

    With two young kids the priority for us was having a bench so they can sit and take their shoes off before traipsing mud all over the hallway. I also wanted it off the floor on legs so cleaning under it was easy.

    Myself I just wear my Redwings these days. Not sure why I'd need more shoes! The rest just languish in the cupboard.

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