How to Organize Your Shoes

Closet space vs number of shoes! When your love of shoes surpasses the capacity to organize them in one place!

Whenever I do a closet re-org and we start on the shoes It’s not uncommon to hear ‘’I forgot I had those’’ or ‘’I’ve been looking for those for weeks”!  Amazing how easily shoes can hide in closet!

Sometimes the solution is right in front of you, but because you are used to how things have always been you can’t see it. If you’re stuck, contact me, even if you live outside the area I can do a virtual closet assessment. 🙂

In the meantime, here are some solutions that worked for my clients, perhaps one might work for you.

ADD SHELVES: My client just moved into her new home, it’s the first time she has had a closet big enough for all of her clothes and all of her shoes! She loves fashion and always has the perfect shoe for the outfit.  Lets face it, it’s all about the shoe, but if you can’t find it when you need it your what’s the point? Check your closet, is there any unused space that you can get creative with?  We had her handyman create shoe cubbies by attaching shelves from the wall to the existing closet system. Happy making!

RE-PURPOSE A BOOKCASE: When I organized Lisa’s closet, she had an empty bookcase stored in the back of her closet and shoes scattered all over the floor, I adjusted a few shelves and Voile!

STACKABLE SHOE SHELVES:  I love this solution, because it is an easy fix, it keeps shoes organized so that you can see them and it’s easy to maintain. These are Container Store Flat Wire Stackables.

 

CLEAR SHOE BOXES: I love this solution because it keeps your shoes dust free and you can easily stack them however high you are willing to go (I suggest no higher than 3). Sterilite storage bins are my fave. Don’t forget to label them! My client Elaine is an artist, so we just stuck sticky notes on the boxes until she could create some fun labels. For flexible labeling I use Self adhesive business card holders, insert a card with the name and replace when you finally get rid of those stilettos and replace with a ”sensible” heel! 🙂