almut has a very narrow hall and was looking for storage to fit shoes, scrafs, gloves, umbrellas, sunglasses etc.
what a floating shoe rack
wendy from vancouver, bc, fell in love with this slot-style shoe rack from design within reach and made her own version with a few ikea items.
"it was small enough to fit in behind my door without preventing it from swinging open, however at $110, it wasn’t so within reach. so, i took a trip to ikea to find the raw materials that could help me build something similar.
basically i hung the klang wall shelf (with drywall anchors – i have heavy shoes), and then mounted both strecket cabinet handles about 6 cm (2 1/2") above it (using drywall anchors again).
actually, "Almut" is a girl's name...
ReplyDeletevery cleaver grasshopper ...Maj
ReplyDeleteoops, Jany, thanks for letting me know. will make the correction.
ReplyDeleteThe Klang shelf was out of stock and discontinued at IKEA (White Marsh, MD (Baltimore area)) when I checked today.
ReplyDeletethe perspective inthe photo might be weird but do the shoes get in the way of the door opening all the way?
ReplyDeleteThe door can open almost all the way with the shoes in, however both the shoes and my little drawer unit prevent it from opening that last 20 degrees. Small sacrifice - when the shoes were on the floor, I often had a hard time opening the door at all. Plus this solution allows my robotic vacuum (Roomba) to clean the area unimpeded.
ReplyDeleteHere is another DIY cheap version of that same shoe rack & you can paint it your favorite color
ReplyDeletehttp://www.notmartha.org/tomake/shoerack/
classy looking shoes
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