To welcome a New Year, I decided to get organized, starting with my closet. This SUPER space saving and surprisingly sturdy DIY shoe rack is the result of that.
The biggest “Aha!” behind the design of this DIY shoe rack is – we do not need to see BOTH shoes on a shoe storage rack! They can be placed one behind the other, so we can utilize the depth of a standard closet!
I can honestly say that this DIY shoe rack has made such a huge difference! I really enjoy using it, and the look isn’t too bad for something made from… cardboard! Here’s our fun and easy tutorial…
You probably know that I am inspired by modular geometric designs from this post – DIY concrete geometric planters.
We are utilizing the modular geometric quality of the equal sided triangle again! Each module here is a triangular tube, the length and size of the module depends on your shoe size! (My shoe size is US 7, so the modules I made are 7″ on the sides, and 24″ long each.)
We start by creating a module for our DIY shoe rack:
Cut a piece of cardboard to the size you need, mine is about 21″x24″. Score it into 3 equal sides.
Use a piece of duct tape and tape the piece into a triangular tube like shown above.
Now we have the first module, repeat to create more modules for this DIY shoe rack: one for each pair of shoes.
I wanted an alternating stacking rows of 4,5, 4, so I made 13 modules total. 
Glue or tape each row onto thick cardboard so they stay together.
Stack each row up, slide each pair of shoes in a triangular opening, one in front of the other.
I also put an extra piece of thick cardboard on top of the shoe storage rack to put some odd sized boots.
Now we have a cool and compact DIY shoe rack that holds more shoes in a small area than most shoe storage rack you can buy! Plus it fits inside our closet perfectly.
I love the possibilities of cardboard as a creative material! Like this set of furniture made with cardboard and duct tape! 
And this useful seed organization box made from 2 shoe boxes- 
Have a lovely week!
Hello Ananda ,
this is a very cool idea !
I made a shoe rack from a pallet.
You can see it here: http://mydiyol.blog.de/2014/01/30/palettenschuhregal-17665301/
That was the beginning of my blogs, so even a small picture.
many Greetings
Uwe
that’s such a great way to use pallet! thank you uwe as always!! =)
This is a really cool idea. The options for decorating that rack are endless — tape, paint, adhesive drawer-lining paper, etc. That’s such a neat idea, especially for people who move around a lot, or students.
thank you abria! =)
What a neat idea! We have so many shoes and such this would be a great idea! I’d have to make a few but I love it!
This is such a great idea. We have so much cardboard sitting around, too!
This is brilliant! I’m always looking for better organization methods. Thank you!
lol I had to laugh when I saw the photo of the laptop desk at the beach… lol love the show rack idea as well.. thanks for sharing
So gonna make my roommates do this for me!
What a cool idea! We definitely could use some better storage options for our shoes!
That’s such a fun idea! I love reusing materials!
Great shoe rack. My daughter needs one. She has a shoe obsession.
I can’t believe those are cardboard! They are totally cool! Love the beach chair but I am thinking they will disintegrate if the water hits it!
That is such a cool #DIY post! I love it! I need to see if my kid and I can do this together. We need to organize our shoes! LOL!
This is pretty rad! I have a ton of cardboard that I’ve been trying to find a use for.
This is awesome! What a killer DIY idea!
totally pinning this to do it in my insanely messy closet!! Thank you so much!
thank you shanon!! =)
I need to run home and make this immediately. Our shoe situation is getting out of control!
yay! have fun with it debi! =)
How neat! And simple enough for us less crafty inclined people. 🙂
What an amazing way to organize and reuse cardboard! Thank you for sharing!
What a fab idea.
Rosie
http://www.rosedogandco.blogspot.com.au
This is so awesome I am so amazed
This is a cool idea! So easy to make and very easy on the budget! Actually we were looking for a shoe rack since the year started but cannot find the right one.
awesome!! thx for sharing
This is so creative, I love it!
very nice, I’ll make this
As many boxes the UPS man drops at my house, I can definitely make use of them. I love the shoe rack and the desk!
that’s actually modern and cool!
What a great idea! I would’ve never thought to use cardboard!
Really interesting idea! thanks for sharing and love the way you take photos! artistic
This is absolutely brilliant, but I wish I’d seen it earlier. Two days ago I threw out a super large ikea box.. now I will have to wait to accumulate more boxes to get started on this one 🙁
thank you arpita! i too always wish i had cardboard as soon as we recycle some ! =)
Love this shoe rack, thanks for the instructions! I’m in the process of making it now and thought I’d give people a heads up about a problem I ran into. After an hour or so the duct tape on the first triangles I made started pulling up and I had to go back over parts of it with ‘packaging tape’. You may want to keep some packaging tape on hand when making this.
Just moved and have ALOT of moving boxes. Definitely need more space for my shoes even with an over the door shoe rack I still have spillage. This is going to be a weekend project. Thank you!
What a great idea, love it, now just have to chase up some cardboard!!!!!