It is the entrance hall that creates the initial impression of the whole apartment. After all, any guest, crossing the threshold of the apartment, immediately appears in the hallway. And its arrangement can say a lot. For this reason, they attach great importance to the creation of comfort and order in the hallway. The main problem of the hallway is to determine the optimal conditions for storing outerwear and shoes. Of course, a lot depends on the size and shape of the room, the availability of equipped furniture and the material capabilities of the owners.
Wardrobe
An ideal option when the entrance hall is so large that you can allocate a place for a specially equipped dressing room, where traditionally the lower shelves or entire cabinets will be identified for storing shoes. In this case, you should calculate the whole system with different heights and depths of shelves, prudently convenient for the location of both high boots and miniature sandals. Seasonal shoes can be placed in drawers, such drawers can significantly save space.
It is desirable that they are divided into compartments, so that each pair is stored separately.
Small rooms
Keeping shoes in a small hallway is much more difficult. The options for its placement depend largely on the characters and even the hobbies of the hosts.
- Minimalists can use ordinary metal open shelving, which will store shoes for this season. If there is not much of it, it is even easier to ensure order in the corridor using plastic or metal trays such as trays in which food is served. Such a tray can be painted in colors that are in harmony with the interior of the hallway.
Thanks to the tray, the dirt from the shoes will not spread on the floor, the tray is easy to move away during cleaning, and the shoes are compact and neat.
- Lovers of the loft and Scandinavian style use auxiliary materials for shoe shelves - construction pallets painted with white paint. The resulting shelves look very attractive in combination with floral arrangements and decorative figures.
For small corridors, a horn shelf, on which shoes are placed vertically, is ideal. Accordingly, such shelves are very narrow and take up little space. When every centimeter of the room is expensive, you can use cabinet doors and their walls to store shoes by placing rails, hanging pockets or plastic holders on them.
A bench with shoe shelves under the seat is very convenient and practical to use. Such a bench can be either wooden or forged.
If cabinets are installed in the corridor, their lower part can also be used to store shoes. This can be either regular shelves or rods with hangers, on which clips for attaching boots are placed.
Shoes and hobbies of the owners
Ideas for storing shoes in the hallway can be connected with the hobbies of the owners of the house.
For some fashionistas, a beautiful wardrobe is a kind of fetish. They are proud of their collections of varied shoes. For such cases with multiple shoe pairs, stainless steel tiered open shelving will do. For particularly expensive collection items, you can arrange glazed cells for each individual pair.
For example, riding enthusiasts who have in their wardrobe more than one pair of beautiful cowboy boots can make forged or wooden shelves made to order in the corridor.
Such a corner, complemented by other attributes associated with cowboys, will look like a decorative element of the interior, telling about the owner’s hobby.
Useful Tips
So that the shoes are always in order it’s enough to store it correctly and follow simple rules.
- Shoes of other seasons are best removed for long-term storage in separate containers. And if there is not enough space in the hallway, choose another room.
- Shoes hidden for long-term storage should be easy to find, therefore it is recommended to store them either in transparent containers, or when kept in boxes, make an accompanying signature on it or even place a photo of the shoe pair. This will save a lot of time searching.
- Shoes identified for storage should be thoroughly cleaned of dirt and dried.
Nowadays, trade offers numerous options for organizers for storing shoes that can be stacked on top of each other. They look beautiful and help save space. A mess in the corridor can spoil the first impression of the owners of the apartment, an opinion will be formed about their lack of assembly, carelessness. The theater begins with a coat rack, and the house with a hallway, cozy, beautiful and creative.
Budget ways to store shoes in the hallway, see the next video.
