Shelves for shoes in a modern interior

Any woman will agree with the statement that "there are never too many shoes." At the same time, it is difficult not to confirm the fact that storage systems are always in short supply. Regardless of the size of your home, whether it has a separate room for a dressing room or all the clothes and shoes are distributed among the cabinets in the living rooms. The rational and orderly storage of shoes for the four seasons of all households is a headache for the owners of an apartment or home. In this publication, we will consider options for placing a large (or not so) number of shoes on a variety of shelves.

Before you begin planning a place for installing shelves, you need to answer a few questions that can clarify your future project to create a rational and convenient way to store shoes:

• how many shoes should be stored in the hallway for daily wear to each family member;
• the total number of pairs of shoes that must be placed for long-term storage;
• there is a possibility in a house or apartment to separate a separate room for a dressing room (it is possible to equip a pantry, an attic or an attic space, part of the basement for these purposes);
• the area of ​​the hallway and its ability to place storage systems for shoes;
• the possibility of placing shelves in the bedroom (parents and children);
• you need to sort all the shoes by type and find out the number of pairs of high models (boots and boots, which must be stored without bending the shafts), shoes with laces (it can be hung on hooks) and the number of pairs in heels (they are conveniently placed on thin metal rails or thick wire).

If you are a happy owner of a spacious home in which it is possible to allocate a separate room for the dressing room, then there will be no problems with the location of the shelves for shoes. Depending on the scale of your shoe “warehouse”, you can arrange shelves along one of the walls (long or short - depends on the shape and size of the room). In any case, shallow shelves are suitable for shoes that do not take up much space.

The use of the space under the window or along the side of the window and doorways will help not only to organize a convenient and rational system for storing shoes, but also to save the useful space of the room.

Another original and at the same time practical way of arranging shoe shelves is under the soft seat of a capacious island, which is installed in the center of the dressing room. It will be convenient for you not only to store shoes, but also to try on them.

Open shelves for shoes in the hallway are not so much a design move as a daily necessity. Depending on the number of family members, it is necessary to take into account the size of the shelves for the arrangement of several pairs of shoes that the family needs for daily wear. If your hallway cannot boast of sufficient space (a frequent case for apartments in buildings dating back to the last century), it is more rational to place one or two shelves under the coat rack for outerwear or storage systems in the form of a closet.

If in any of your utilitarian spaces there is a place for installing a low rack with open shelves, you can safely say that the issue of storing shoes has been resolved. In the corridor, near the stairs, in the laundry room (with a good forced ventilation system), you can use a small amount of usable space for installing several shelves for shoes.

Open shelves for storing shoes in the attic with a complex architecture and many bevels are the best way to use the space.It is not easy to equip a living room in the attic, and premises that are complex in terms of geometry are great for storing an extensive wardrobe. The regiment here can be placed even on walls with a large bevel.

If in your home there is no possibility of providing a separate room for arranging the dressing room (and this is exactly what happens in most Russian apartments), you can arrange storage systems directly in the bedroom. For a bachelor or a married couple without children and with a small assortment of shoes, this option may be optimal.

In the spacious bedroom, you can use a partition (for example, dividing the sleeping area and the work) for the arrangement of a rack with shelves for shoes. Save space and ease of use of storage systems provided.

Using the space around the stairs (most often underneath it) is a special art of obtaining additional space for organizing storage systems. If the arrangement of sliding or built-in shelves under the stairs is more or less clear, then the use of flights of stairs, platforms between floors and racks of screw structures is the destiny of professionals who will help you organize an organized storage system in those places that you did not even think of as useful square meters.

The traditional way of making shelves for shoes in the dressing room is the use of wood (fiberboard, particleboard, MDF, chipboard - depending on the financial capabilities of the owners). Obviously, when using wood to make a dressing room furniture ensemble, a similar material is used for open shoe shelves.

If we talk about the color schemes of shelves for shoes in dressing rooms, then all the shades of white have gained the greatest popularity. A clean, fresh and visually light image of even a large shelving unit with shelves is provided to you. Not to mention the fact that the white color always contributes to the visual expansion of space and for small pantries, dressing rooms of modest sizes (most often without windows) can be an excellent opportunity to create an easy, from the point of view of psychological perception, interior.

If you want to bring notes of brightness to the design of the dressing room or any other space in which the storage systems are located - use a colorful background for open shelves. Your shoes deserve a luxurious look.

The second most popular color for the execution of open shelves for shoes in the dressing room is a natural pattern of wood, from which all other storage systems are made. Nothing brings as much respectability and chic into the interior as natural materials can convey to the room. Against the background of light walls, dark woods will look especially expressive and accent.

Shelves for shoes, which are more like cells where each pair of shoes or sneakers has their own personal space, allows you to create the most optimized storage system. True, more places will be needed for such a performance (in comparison with regular shelves), but the result will please you with your appearance and the ability to save time for many years. Only in the manufacture of the cells it is necessary to take into account that not all shoes have a small height and provide storage systems for high boots.

In order for all pairs of shoes, and even those that are on the upper shelves, to be perfectly visible, it is advisable to mount the storage surface. But at the same time, another problem arises - it is necessary that your sandals and boots do not move off the shelves - low sides or metal strings will help to solve this issue.

Metal racks with divisions, to which shoe shelves are attached, is not only the most durable installation of storage systems, but also the ability to control the distance between them.If you need to store not only low shoes, but also high models such as boots and boots, just simply rearrange the shelf to a higher position of the tripod and no additional holes in the walls.

You can do it at all only with metal parts. Tripods on which thin metal rods are mounted look modern and weightless. Even a large number of pairs of shoes will not visually press on the entire image of the room - the models seem to freeze in the air.

Glass shelves for shoes look luxurious. The transparency of the material creates a completely weightless appearance even of a large shelf with shelves. Glass open shelves harmoniously fit into any interior of the dressing room or bedroom. And the built-in backlight will not only help you make the right choice of the right pair, but also give the whole ensemble respectability and chic. Of course, glass shelves will cost a lot, but the durability of the material and the attractive appearance of the resulting composition will more than pay off all the costs.

Special rotating stands with shelves for shoes will help not only organize storage in the corner of the dressing room, but also bring originality to its interior. Of course, such devices are not for modest-sized storage rooms, but their high capacity and ease of use are able to push the owners to expand the area of ​​the utility room.

Shelves with sides are perfect for organizing storage systems in the hallway. Rubber mats can be used to protect the surface from moisture and dirt. This way you keep the shelves clean and save yourself from having to completely clean your shoes before placing them on the surface of storage systems.

The traditional use of shelves for storing shoes in Russian apartments and households is portable racks, which are installed in the hallway closer to the entrance to the dwelling. Most often, such models are well-ventilated storage systems made of metal, plastic or wood (treated with special antiseptics and protective varnishes). The obvious advantage of using plastic is its low cost and ease of maintenance. But such designs are most often not very stable, easily scratched with metal heels and look rustic. Wooden products are perfect for any style of interior decoration, but are more expensive and more difficult to care for. Metal shelves will not cause any trouble at all, the main thing is that the coloring of the surfaces does not disappoint.

There is always room for creativity in design. Leave the idea with the usual shelves for shoes, if your taste preferences and the size of the hallway allow - use original design solutions. Unusual wooden "snake" m with different distances between shelves for shoes of all kinds of models will be the highlight of your interior.