Like almost all of the women I know I love buying shoes, they always fit me no matter how much I’ve been eating. However, finding shoe storage for wardrobes is difficult, there’s not a lot of choice in most ready made standard wardrobes & I’m not keen on any of the separate options available (am I actually going to put my shoes away in plastic boxes & take them out every time I use them?) Which is why wardrobes from Italy are my current obsession, with their truly fabulous storage options.
I’ve seen three different kinds of shoe storage so far & my favourite is the one that comes with walk in wardrobes from Tempo – a shoe cupboard with a mirrored door. They take up a fair amount of room (they are about 2 & a half feet wide & 5 ft tall), but inside are rows of specially built shelves where your shoes are all nicely lined up. The door is mirrored, so you can see what they look like on!
I also really like the new shoe drawers from Europeo. They are lightweight metal ‘drawers’ with 3 angled rows, & at about 2-3 feet wide & 2 feet deep is about 4-6 pairs of shoes x 3. I would definitely need 2 drawers, but they are an elegant way to keep everything tidy & very easy to use, & shoes are easy to see & get out/put away. The last option is really useful if you haven’t got that much room, & is just basically pull out wire chromed racks that are fastened to the inside of your wardrobe, down near the bottom in the space where clothes are hanging.
Each rack has 3 rows of 60cm (the depth of the wardrobe) & you pull them out to see the rows of shoes. Any of these options are miles ahead of the rubbish shoe storage that is widely available, so I’m saving up for a posh wardrobe..shoes are expensive & having them jumbled in the bottom of my current wardrobe is not good for them!