bovagoods top ten: #6

{i am taking the remainder of 2011 to count down the all-time top ten posts here on bovagoods}

 

Sixth Place:   "organized goods: the shoe corner is no more!"

if there is one thing i would change about my house it's that we don't have a mud room or a downstairs laundry room. we have a tiny coat closet and some peg boards that my husband crafted, but that is it. the door from the garage enters right-smack-dab into our kitchen. we typically take our shoes off when we come inside and it ends up looking like this:

this is our "shoe corner". it's barely even a corner and resides in the main traffic area of our kitchen/family room. you can see that i made an attempt with a cute market tote but alas...the shoes end up spilling over onto the floor. the other day i was at wal-mart and spotted this. a basic over-the-door shoe rack. (it's cheaper in the store than online.) why didn't i think of this before? brilliant! now our shoes are nicely organized and hidden away in the coat closet. i love this solution because it doesn't take up floor space, the shoes are easily accessible- no more digging through the market tote looking for a lost shoe, they are hidden away from sight, and our children can easily reach their shoes on the bottom four rows. when our youngest walked in the door from school the other day she yelled, "what happened to the shoe corner?" i was happy to tell her it is no more!