Shoe Rack Plans??

[Tim Plantz]

Just had a customer ask if I could build her a shoe rack for her "hundreds" of shoes. Does anyone have/or know where I could look at some plans?
Any and all suggestions would be appreciated!

[John Schreiber]

I just did a Google Images Search for Shoe Rack and it showed lots of ideas. Some of them pretty innovative. No plans, but most look quite straight forward.

[Tim Plantz]

Thanks John! Those are the type of ideas/pictures I needed to get started.

[Jamie Buxton]

Here's something simple I've done in a walk-in closet. The closet had lots of height-adjustable shelves. They were done with the 32mm columns of holes for shelf-support pegs. If you set the rear pair of pegs higher than the front pair, you have a tilted shelf -- just what folks seem to want for shoe storage. To prevent the tilted shelves from slipping forward, I put a simple groove on the bottom of the shelf where the shelf pins are. These shelves were plywood, which I needed to edge-band anyhow, so I made the solid-lumber edge-band taller so it serves as a lip. Simple, but effective.

One nice effect of this approach is that the homeowner can use the shelves either horizontal or tilted, for shoes or other kinds of clothes.

[Tim Plantz]

Good idea! I was dreading having to cut all those dados, not to mention the time involved in making a jig(angled) to cut them all. This will be much simplier

[Jamie Buxton]

For extra credit, please explain to me why people want to store shoes on a tilt. Storing shoes on a horizontal shelf is apparently not acceptable, but I've never understood why.

[John Schreiber]

For extra credit, please explain to me why people want to store shoes on a tilt. Storing shoes on a horizontal shelf is apparently not acceptable, but I've never understood why.

Extra extra credit . . . who could need more than five pairs of shoes?

[Jeremy Thompson]

For extra credit, please explain to me why people want to store shoes on a tilt. Storing shoes on a horizontal shelf is apparently not acceptable, but I've never understood why.

I'm going to guess here...

I bet it's because you can see the shoes better when they are on a tilt.

If you do it like this: http://www.aclosetcase.com/Images/cl...hoe%20rack.jpg

You can obviously see how that allows for better view of the shows. If it's just a box, it's covered by the one above it.

Again, total guess.

[Jamie Buxton]

You can obviously see how that allows for better view of the shows.

Look at the bottom shelf in that pic. If it were not tilted, you'd have a better view of the whole shoe.

[Jeremy Thompson]

Look at the bottom shelf in that pic. If it were not tilted, you'd have a better view of the whole shoe.

That's a bit silly. One shelf doesn't = a whole design aspect. Also, No, I can't agree that you'd have a better view at foot level of something that isn't at an angle. It would be totally covered by the shelf above it! You'd only see the back of the shoe. The slant allows you to see all the way to the laces.