After my recent shoe binge at DSW, I am completely out of room in my shoe closet. I bought two sets of The Container Store’s shoeboxes and only had about 3 empty boxes left so I had to get creative and double up on some of my flats.
I don’t think I’ve shared this setup on my blog yet (my memory is horrible) but here it is. I’m using my old linen closet from my apartment and have stacked them full with plastic shoe boxes. Before this, I kept all of my shoes in their original shoe boxes. This worked great until I stocked up on multiple shoes per brand and soon I was digging through 4-5 boxes to find the right shoe. I was originally going to get a Polaroid camera and take a picture of each pair to put on the side of the box but realized with the price of Polaroid film, that would cost me more than the boxes themselves. So for now, I use the dust bag as a way to “label” the brand and the clear top makes it super easy to identify the right shoe! Now if only there was an easy way to organize my bags…
$25.80 for a set of 20, The Container Store.
10 responses so far ↓
1 Leila // Nov 6, 2009 at 10:16 am
HAHA Great idea.
2 All Women Stalker // Nov 6, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I should do this, too but the prob is where to put the boxes. I got no space. None at all
-meream
3 xA // Nov 6, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Hey, I know what you mean about the appeal for a polaroid for recording your clothing/ shoe collection and it sucks that they’ve stopped making film and the cameras, but there is an iphone application that does fake polaroids on it.
The website for it is http://shakeitphoto.com/
xA
4 CT // Nov 6, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I put my whole shelf in the garage. =) Much prettier than a pile of shoes.
5 jasmine // Nov 6, 2009 at 3:11 pm
i use the same shoeboxes too! i put flats&flip flops together and its easier when you want to find that one pair of shoes that you want to wear for the day (:
6 Mary // Nov 6, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Hi CT!
I am green with envy over your shoe collection
Just a suggestion: Why not search up or take photos of your shoes; resize them on Photoshop (for uniformity); add polaroid borders; and print.
Don’t know how pretty that would be, though.
-Mary
7 Steph // Nov 6, 2009 at 7:53 pm
That’s a good deal on those shoe boxes. Will have to get some.
8 livinglavidarita // Nov 12, 2009 at 7:23 pm
i think a shot of my shoe cabinet will scare the heck outta the living…
it’s an absolute (not hot) mess!!!
9 Goodbye, Small Heart // Dec 2, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Did you get the regular size boxes or the big ones? On the Container Store site it recommends the big ones (I think they’re the men’s size, actually) for athletic shoes and high heels/platforms. Thanks for posting this, it has inspired me to finally do something about my shoe collection, which is small but annoyingly disorganized!
10 Kris Pak // Apr 9, 2010 at 8:46 am
Instead of polaroids, why not find pictures online and print them out?
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