Shoe Racks and Benches - Affordable Home Storage Solution

If you love the look of a neat house, then it's necessary to keep shoes, boots, sneakers and slippers picked up. But boy can this be a hard task to accomplish. I've found that it was necessary to think about how my husband and I wear shoes and what we do with them when we go from the outside to inside the house. The first thing I had to deal with was what happens to our boots and garden shoes. Those are the dirtiest and most cumbersome. We decided to put a shoe bench in our kitchen by our back door. This spot is for garden shoes in the summer and boots and shoes in the winter.

We also quickly learned that out of the many pairs of shoes and sneakers we have, there are just a few that we wear on a regular basis. The storage for these has to be out in the open and very close to wear we get dressed and undressed. If not, the result is we don't use our shoe racks.

So we got a small two-tier shoe rack that fits just outside the bathroom door that adjoins our bedroom. So at night when we wash up, that's where our shoes go. At least there's a 90% chance that the shoes we have one go there.

That's where most people go wrong with home storage solutions. They make them inconvenient. In order for them to work, you have to change your ways. I've learned that my husband and I like to be comfortable and we aren't going to change. So we have to make our life fit us.