How to make DIY shoe racks

Tired of tripping over shoes thrown in the hallway? Consider footwear.

It is simply necessary to acquire it, otherwise this shoe mess will never end. Modern manufacturers offer these accessories in a wide variety of interpretations, but to make them a truly full-fledged part of the interior, make shelves for shoes with your own hands. Do you think this is an impossible task for you? Unlikely. You just didn't set a goal. So how and from what can you get such shoe racks that are needed in everyday life?

What is she, a shelf for shoes in the hallway?

The hallway is rarely spacious. Everything is always close here, so every piece of furniture that appears in it should be compact and practical, and ideally, multifunctional.

Before you start assembling a shelf for shoes with your own hands, it's a good idea to get acquainted with the structural varieties of the accessory. This will help you choose the best option that suits your needs.

Among the homemade shelves for the hallway, the most popular are:

1. Wall models.

2. Shelving.

3. Cabinets-slim.

4. Stands.

Wall views are ideal for small spaces. Such a design is easy to assemble from wood or generally improvised materials.

Rack models can perform not only the role of a storage system. If you make shelves in the form of a bench, then you can sit on them for the convenience of putting on shoes. This will eliminate the need to add puffs and chairs to the interior of the hallway. You can make a shoe shelf out of wood and higher, then its upper part will become a place to store all sorts of little things.

The closed design of the curbstone-slim is very practical. It opens by turning the case by 450. It is most important to make corner shelves in this form.

Stands - the simplest type of shelves for shoes in the hallway. They can be floor and wall mounted. They are assembled from everything that comes to hand, even from cardboard.

With structural varieties sorted out a little. Now it's time to talk about consumables.

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DIY shoe rack: from what to collect?

What to work with depends on the skills available in the arsenal, and financial opportunities. By and large, you can make a shelf:

• metal,
• glass,
• plastic,
• pipes,
• tree,
• fabrics.

Each of the materials is good in its own way. Wood, for example, is distinguished by its nobility of texture and plasticity of forms, but at the same time it reacts badly to moisture.Metal shoe rackit will be durable, but it will not be possible to assemble it yourself, without certain skills.Plastic is universal, highly hygienic, but does not “breathe” at all, therefore closed types of shoe storage systems are not made from it. In general, it will be much easier for beginners in furniture production to assembledo-it-yourself shoe racks:

• from cardboard
• plywood,
• chipboard,
• fabrics.

Consumables are not too expensive, easy to process. Products from them are of quite acceptable quality, often with a claim to originality, but this is already a matter of fantasy.

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How to make a shoe rack in a stylish hallway

Homemade shelves for the hallway are a great opportunity not to disturb the style of the corridor interior. Let's see what design you need to make accessories in order to fit them into the existing environment without any problems.

shoe rack in provence

“You can make such shelves in the form of a bench”

Provence is a style that gravitates towards naturalness, so a wooden shoe rack is most suitable here. It can be decorated with patterns or carved ornaments. A two-tier design will look very original, the lower part of which is given over to storing shoes, and the upper part is lined with wicker baskets for all kinds of accessories and small things. You can make such shelves in the form of a bench. They will look most harmoniously in the setting of the shelves under the lid, which protrudes beyond the boundaries of the body contour.

In principle, the design is unpretentious, without pretensions, but this is where its stylistic beginning is manifested. More pompous do-it-yourself shoe shelves will need to be created for art deco, empire, rococo.

minimalist shoe rack

For interiors such as hi-tech or modern, there will be no other choice but to make a shoe rack out of something modern, such as glass, metal, plastic. The last option is just great. The bright plastic design in red, black and white will be exactly what the stylistic canons dictate. If you prefer a metal shoe rack, then assemble it from chrome tubes, and do not focus on forging.

Baroque shoe rack

The most difficult thing is to assemble a shoe shelf with your own hands for baroque and classics. This is where luxury design comes into play. Although, if you dream up a little and here you can find economical solutions to the issue. For example, homemade shelves for the hallway made of wood are painted in impeccable white and served as pouffes. To do this, the upper part is made soft and fitted with a piece of velor or velvet of noble shades. In a small hallway, you can make forged corner shelves in the same design.

What's where

Interior design is an eternal topic, but back to the choice of materials. What the shoe shelf will be made of with your own hands depends largely on where it is supposed to be installed. And her place can be determined not only in a residential area, but also on the veranda of a country house or in general in the open air.

In the apartment and house, the patrimony of shoe shelves made of wood in any of its manifestations:

• Chipboard;
• plywood;
• boards.

In the choice it is quite possible to be guided by your taste. If there are animals in the house, forget about cardboard. This design will not withstand their teeth and claws.

For the street, it is better to make shelves for shoes with your own hands made of metal and plastic, and the first option will have to be additionally treated with protective compounds so that the product lasts longer. You can use any other materials that are resistant to climatic influences.

Not the best solution would be to assemble too light products. The wind can damage them. The best option is a metal shoe rack combined with plastic.

If you still decide to put a shelf in the form of a wooden bench on the street, then carefully process it before painting with a moisture-proof agent, paying special attention to the end parts.

Let's set aside for now the street options for shoe racks and focus on the question of how to quickly make a shelf for shoes in the house.

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Homemade shelves for the hallway

Let's go from simple to not that complex - rather unusual.

Cardboard option

A narrow wall structure can be assembled from separate pockets, and then fixed in the right place. The work involves cardboard boxes. From tools and additional consumables to create a shelf for shoes in the hallway, prepare: a pencil with a ruler, glue and paint, wallpaper or film decor, a cord.

We cut rectangles of 65x60 centimeters from cardboard. We divide the long side into three parts, setting aside 20, 25 and again 20 cm. At this level, we draw lines. On the short side, we draw a line at around 25 cm.

Thus, we have a square and a rectangle. The side parts of the latter are cut off so that a T-shaped blank is obtained.

On the remaining wings of the future home-made shelf for the hallway, we set aside 11 cm each. We do this along the border of the upper line of the square. We draw diagonals connecting the postponed points with the corners of the letter T.

We bend the workpiece along all available lines. You can make it easier for yourself to bend thick cardboard with a metal ruler.

Let's assemble the structure. Attach a square to the back wall, the role of which will be played by a rectangle, so that the bent triangles become the side walls. We fix everything with glue or tape and decorate with wallpaper, self-adhesive and decorative cord. You can paint cardboard, cover with synthetic fabric.

By the same principle, we assemble the remaining elements of the shoe shelf with our own hands. Having constructed a sufficient number of pockets, we collect them together, pulling them vertically. It remains to attach the resulting masterpiece to the wall.

Pipe construction

If you think that this is a metal shelf for shoes, then you are very mistaken. We will collect it from PVC pipes with a diameter of 20-25 cm. You can cut the material into cylinders with a hacksaw. For decor, paint or self-adhesive film is suitable. Glue will help to assemble the individual elements together.

We cut the pipe into 30 cm pieces. We process cuts to smoothness. We decorate the resulting cylinders at our discretion. We collect the details in any form. You can give the shoe rack in the hallway the look of a honeycomb or arrange the cells in any other order, imitating the sun, a flower, etc.

Instead of gluing, shelf sections can be tied with a cord or assembled with tape. Such a shoe rack can be made floor or wall.

Plastic construction

The ubiquitous bottles have found themselves in the creation of shoe shelves with their own hands. You can collect shoe holders from containers of any size. High racks are made from five-liter bottles. Their necks are cut off and fastened together. For reliability, a lightweight design can be fixed to the wall. The rack can remain transparent or be decorative.

In the second case, the shelves for shoes are painted with their own hands or pasted over with a beautiful film. For summer shoes, you can assemble a similar design from two-liter bottles.

Metal shoe rack

To create it, there is no need to master the art of forging. The working material will be an old stepladder. All that needs to be done is to cut out a fragment with steps from it and fix it on the wall. If desired, decorate the composition, and put shoes.

Interesting combo optionsshoe rack in the hallwayassembled from a multi-colored profile and tempered glass. Metal components are assembled into a frame that is attached to the wall. Glass cut out according to a given shape is placed on the obtained holders. The shelf is ready for use.

Wooden shoe rack

Beginners are offered to assemble such a design from bars and slats. Do not be too lazy to draw up a drawing of the future product in order to carefully cut the materials on it. It does not matter if there were not several bars in the house.Do-it-yourself shoe rack can be constructed from the same rails. In addition to them, you will need to prepare furniture varnish, sandpaper, self-tapping screws. Of the tools you will need a screwdriver and a hacksaw.

Consider step by stephow to make a shoe rack.

The first thing to do is to measure the place where you plan to install the accessory.

We draw a drawing with dimensions.

We cut slats into predetermined segments. For a four-tier structure, you need to prepare:

• 8 transverse supports;
• 4 racks;
• 12 shelf strips.

Make the width of the tiers as you wish. They may well be on two or four slats. It all depends on the availability of free space in the hallway.

On the racks we mark the places of fastening of the crossbars. To haveDIY shoe rack, the rack rails did not crack when screwing in the screws, holes should be prepared for them. To do this, you will have to work jewelry with a drill.

All blanks are processed with sandpaper.

Having collected the side racks, you should get two ladders. The slats of the tiers will be attached to their "steps". You need to start collecting them from the bottom up.

Finishing touch - coatingwooden shoe rack varnish. For greater decorativeness, you can treat wooden elements with a stain, anneal with a soldering iron, or use colored varnish for a protective layer.

Wooden shoe racks can be given a wide variety of shapes.Corner options will look good, andbench shelves.

In addition to natural wood, it is recommended to use plywood or chipboard blanks. When working with the latter, be sure to process the blank ends. That's what melamine tape is for. It is available in various sizes and colors. An iron will help to fix the tape to the end.

Interestingdo-it-yourself shoe racks plywood

Lightweight, original and practical shoe rack can be assembled from plywood sheets. With its spaciousness, it will take up a minimum of space in the room. Fasten the plywood structure with glue and pins. In the assembly are involved: hammer, jigsaw, perforator.

Cut plywood into several rectangular blanks of arbitrary size, say 20x30 cm. We will assemble them into p-shaped blocks, from which we will then assemble ourshoe rack in the hallway abstract form. To do this, we will fold the elements like a puzzle, giving the product the appearance of a complex labyrinth. The number of blocks can be unlimited. It all depends on the number of shoes that are planned to be stored in such sections and the size of the hallway.

"Labyrinth" will become a real decoration of one of the walls, if you add a few decorative details to it. For example, put a vase with a bouquet of dead wood on top.

Pallet shoe rack

There are several wayshow to make a shoe rack from pallets. The first option is “for the lazy”. Sand the used pallet by hand or with a grinder. Treat with a hydrophobiser. Lean against the wall at an angle and use. Suchhomemade shelves in the hallway loft style or in the setting of country houses. The pallet can, if necessary, be decorated with paint or in any other way.

If you are closer to the traditional vision of shoe shelves, feel free to saw the pallet into several parts and put them on top of each other. Do not forget to separate the tiers with bars of the required height so that you can comfortably place shoes on them. The design is assembled on self-tapping screws.

The result should be a two-three-tier shoe rack.

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Corner shelves

This is a godsend for small hallways. Corner shelves with maximum functionality occupy a minimum of space. They can be made in bizarre shapes. Everything will fit into the manufacture of chipboard and plastic.

Let's try to make a shelf for shoes with our own hands from MDF. The set of tools will become more complex. It includes:

1. Jigsaw.

2. Screwdriver.

3. Drill.

Self-tapping screws will serve as fasteners.

We cut the MDF sheet into 2 rectangles, which will become the side walls, and several triangular elements - future shelves.

Details are cut with a jigsaw. Be sure to finish the edges.

Let's assemble the structure. On the sides, we outline the places for the shelves and fix the parts with self-tapping screws. In order for a homemade shelf for the hallway to acquire an aesthetic appearance, it should be painted with acrylic paint.

To make the corner shelves more stable, it is recommended to attach them to the wall with dowels.

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Round shoe rack

The original model of the shoe shelf is assembled from any material, including glass. You will need to make a cross, cut the central rack from a wooden block or pipe and prepare the shelves themselves.

The decor method is selected according to the type of consumable. Plywood shelves can be pasted over with wallpaper, film or simply painted. A stained-glass window will look wonderful on glass. It will not be a shame to put such a shelf for shoes, created by oneself, in the most modernly decorated hallway.

If you have certain skills and desires, the tiers of a round shoe rack can be made rotating. This will make its use as comfortable as possible.

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How to make a shoe rack in the form of a bench

“If the area of ​​​​the hallway allows, then the shelves in the form of a bench should be made large enough and equipped with several tiers of storage”

More than a worthy detail of the interior. Multifunctional designs can be made in a wide variety of models. It can be a stable and beautiful shoe rack made of wood or metal. More comfortable will be a shelf-bench with a soft "lid", more like a bench. Delight is caused by products in retro style, with their design reminiscent of garden benches. Of course, you can’t place a lot of shoes on a single shelf below, but it will be very comfortable to put on shoes. The function of such shelves for shoes in the hallway is more decorative. Thus, it is easy to emphasize the stylistic orientation of the design of the entire room. This is always an accent zone, therefore, such benches should have an impeccable look. Making them is much more difficult than all of the above. Most of all you will have to tinker with carved patterns.

If the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe hallway allows, then the shelves in the form of a bench should be made large enough and equipped with several tiers of storage. It is not necessary to stretch the product along one wall. It may well be corner shelves.

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Non-standard ideas for creating shoe shelves

The human imagination is unrestrained. She's really clever at inventions. And really, why pay for something that you can do yourself, and even in an exclusive form?

An excellent shoebox will turn out from ordinary wooden boxes used as containers for vegetables. All that will be needed to organize it is to sand the wood and paint the boxes in different colors. Now they can be stuffed on the wall in any order. Put out your shoes and enjoy the order.

By the way, this is a great option for those who keep animals in the house who do not disdain to chew slippers or drag boots into a secluded corner. It will be very difficult for them to get the coveted pair from such a shelf for shoes in the hallway, because you can adjust the height of the blocks.

Plastic boxes will cope with this mission no worse, only in operation they may turn out to be less durable.

You can get a chic shoe shelf from an old sliding ladder. Add a few rungs on the second side, placing them symmetrically to the steps. Paint the structure in a suitable color and put the shelves cut out of wood on the received supports. You will receive a full-fledged shoe rack of non-standard design.

Homemade picket shelves for the hallway will interest young people. The narrow and practical design does not take up much space, so it can help organize space even in a cramped dorm room.

Pointed pickets are attached to the transverse rail, fixed on the strut legs. They can be of any height. You need to fix them with a not too tight step so that the shoes hung on them can be placed freely without overlapping each other.

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Conclusion

As you can see, it will not take much effort and time to assemble inexpensive, practical and really stylish do-it-yourself shoe racks from what has been unclaimed and unused for years. Experiment, create, fantasize - make your home individual and unique.

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