Shoes, Shoes and more Shoes

OK, so I have a lot of shoes.   Hate me if you want but it's really a passion.  The ones that sit by the back door are usually the ones I wear all the time.  But . . . I have them in every room of the house (well just about every room); I have them at the back door, the stair landing, a closet in my office is dedicated to them, a few in the basement closet and a couple of boxes of boots and cast offs in the dungeon part of the basement. Sad but true, I love them all and really can't part with many . . . so I hoard . . . well maybe not hoard but close . . . alright . . .  after 8 years of a PILE of shoes at the back door and having heard enough from all of those who enter I finally bit the bullet and fixed the problem.

Here's the before.

Before

While I hate self assembly, sometimes the price to do so is a bit more cost efficient; and because I am a "weekend flyer" reader I saw something at JYSK that I thought I would go and have a look at. Once there I "liked" it but didn't LOVE it and was going to settle on something I wasn't 100% happy with when I turned around to start to leave with the "wrong" one and I found this! IT WAS PERFECT . . . and I can paint it . . . 

Product Package

Once home, I open up the box and stack the items to ensure I have everything and get down on my hands and knees on the kitchen floor and start assembling. After 10 minutes I am swearing like a trooper and have been up and down the stairs more than once because it just doesn't "fit" right . . . well perhaps I should have used the proper screws in the proper place and it would have gone faster . . . I have to break for dinner . . . which really means I have to rest because I am sweating so bad . . . and a 1/2 hour later, I'm back at it . . . two hours later and it's done. I think it looks fantastic but I AM going to paint it because I can never leave things as they are!

I added a handle - this one was from my original garage door (the door is now the top of my work bench in my new garage)

And a bit of bling

And it's organized

Some of the shoes in the original picture have gone to winter storage but what's in the shoe storage now is about all I'll be wearing (ok, so I might have to rotate some if I purchase more which I'm trying not to do) but for now it's boots and runners.

TOTAL COST:  $82.00
TOTAL TIME:  2 (and 1/2) hours