Shoe Closets

Over Door Shoe Rack

Finding an organized way to store shoes is a challenge for nearly everyone without a huge house and a maid or two. For those with small closets and budgets to match, an over door shoe rack may be your best option. (College students come to mind.) There are several styles and options to choose from depending on your preferences, closet size and door options. Most come in white, but there are chrome finishes and combos of both with 12 to 36 - pair or more shoe capacity. Some feature accessory hangers and adjustable spacing to accommodate high tops or boots.

An over door shoe rack is most practical for a swing open door, but some can be wall mounted for people with wall space in a walk-in closet. For over-door mounts there are some models that require no tools at all – just assembly and hanging. The pocket style works best for this mostly because as you open and close the door, the shoe organizer tends to swing out a bit. Pockets keep the shoes from falling to the floor.

Over door shoe racks where the shoes sit on a bar type design may not always come with additional mounting brackets, but for the reason mentioned above, it's a good idea to configure a way to fasten them directly to the door and not rely entirely on the over-door brackets. Those of you noy terribly handy at improvised home improvements may want to impose on a friend or relative who is. Some models of this type have adjustable angle bars that will help mitigate the tendency of shoes to fall off when the door is opened and closed, but it's still advisable to affix
the rack securely to the door, unless the door it's mounted on is always kept open.

One type of over door shoe rack that will store shoes more securely provides rounded wire frames that fit in the toe of each individual shoe. If you have a lot of open-toed shoes or sandals, however, this may not be your best choice, though for men's shoes this may be the most secure and practical method.

An over door shoe rack organizes and stores shoes while making use of otherwise wasted space – a feature that the efficiency-minded find most appealing. And with prices ranging from $10 - $40 this is an inexpensive solution to the challenge of shoe storage for the budget-minded as well.

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