wine box shoe shelf

The storage at our house is very different from our apartment. We used to have an Ikea shoe shelf on the wall in our apartment, but since we don't know what we're doing with the living room yet, we haven't put it up. I had my shoes stuffed on a shelf in the closet, but I realized I need that shelf space for other things. I thought about having DH install the Ikea shoe cabinet on the wall in front of our room, but again, I wanted to avoid unnecessary holes in the wall since we might just move the shoe cabinet later.

Since we had a few spare wine boxes lying around, I decided to stack them together against the wall to create a place for my shoes. I haven't attached them together in any way yet, but I might in the future; wood glue would probably be best since the wood is too thin for nails or screws. I also steamed the labels off and scrub the boxes a little, but they look better without them.

I wear a fairly small shoe size, and my overlapping sneakers shows that this would not work for someone with larger feet -- my husband shoe size is more than double mine, so we can't store his shoes this way. But it's a good, inexpensive storage solution that looks nice and has a little personality. I might use these a bookshelf in the future or hang them on the wall and use them as crafty storage when I get my studio set up.