I live with two roommates in a room the size of a freshman double (senior luxury lyfe). I don’t have many shoes, but we have very little space for anything, so here’s what my “shoe shelf” looks like:
In pondering a solution for my dilemma, I noticed that my lizard brain method of “shove shoes in whatever space is available” had already discovered the ingenious solution to my bottleneck by making use of the excess vertical space offered by my shoe shelf. I used my CAD skills to whip up a quick model:
So I measured how long the top of the shelf was and got to work. I started by cutting some planks of wood to the length I wanted the shelf to be, then I made 2 shorter crossbeams of guesstimated length.
I laid it out on a table to see how it looked
After laying my shoe on top I arbitrarily decided my crossbeams were too long and guesstimated a new length for them
Much better. Time to screw them together, which consisted of spending 20 minutes digging through the scrap pit to find 8 screws that looked the same, and 5 minutes of screwing those screws in.
Once all the screws were in, it was time to drill the holes for the legs of Shelf 2.5. Because the wood screws I did by hand were obviously super duper straight and not wonky at all, I opted to use the drill press. Only because I wanted to learn a new tool and definitely not to avoid table legs halfway through the chacha slide.
For the legs, I used 3/4 inch dowels fitted to the holes. I didn’t glue them in so I could take the table apart and make it easier to transport.
Alright, time for the final step, the photo of my shoes elegantly arranged on the beautiful shelf…
Throwback to my third paragraph of this journal
I measured how long the top of the shelf was…
Turns out the top part of the shelf is different from the inside part of the shelf where Shelf 2.5 is supposed to go. Easy fix though, back to the saw to lop off an inch from each side. We’ll see if I remember to add the finished photo to this.