How To Make A White Wall Mounted Shoe Organzier! The Best Solution For A Messy Front Entrance.
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In our new home we have a small entry way with no closet – cue the piles of shoes from the 5 of us. It was not a pretty sight! So I planned for our second wood DIY project to be a white wall mounted shoe organizer.
I had this large mirror waiting in storage and I knew I wanted it in our home’s entry way but did not know what we were going to do to organize the mess of shoes.
The front entrance gets beautiful, natural light all day long so I wanted to keep the look light and bright – I wanted something white and off the ground for storage. I may ask Matt to build a mini version of the wall mounted storage bins because it would be awesome for storing mittens, hats, scarves, etc for the girls to grab on the way outside.
We like to wing it when it comes to DIY projects, but I found exactly the design I wanted to use from the DIY blog Remodelholic and was so thankful that they had figured out all the supplies for us to follow along. Then I sent Matt on his way to buy wood, cut the wood, screw it together, and then I helped him paint it.
Our home is old, it’s from the 1960’s and the dry wall is fragile. Naturally we had to screw and anchor the DIY shoe organizer into the studs – this was a really interesting experience for us since our stud finder was on the fritz and was telling us the entire wall was a stud… so we had to go out and buy a new one that actually works.
We used 3 screws for each DIY organizer when putting it on the wall, 2 at the top and 1 through the middle of the bottom. We did it that way so we hit a stud with each screw, we did not want any accidents because our kids are not gentle or careful with things.
Then Matt was concerned that the warped wood and the screws showing would make the whole DIY project look bad, but I wasn’t because those are superficial things I could deal with. Once we painted it white I was really happy with the look and functionality!
We ended up painting the wood after we put it together with white exterior paint so that we would could wipe down the shoe organizer when it got dirty from shoes, because it’s inevitable that it will get dirty.
How do you like it? I am in love with no clutter and being super organized!
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