DIY Shoe Storage Bench

Learn how to make a bench to store your shoes in.

This is one of my first furniture projects, but I think it turned out pretty well and I have a couple more planned. I definitely learned a lot while building it.

As always, make sure to follow all safety precautions and become familiar with safe operations before using any tool.

My family is in the practice of taking off our shoes in the house. This helps keep the floors clean, but we ended up with an unsightly pile of shoes right by the front door.

This was basically the first thing people saw when they walked through the door, or a close-up of the floor if they tripped over the shoes.

We decided to clean up the clutter by building a bench that could hold all of the shoes. It's a place where you can sit down and take your shoes off, then slide them in a cubby.

This corner of the house definitely looks a lot nicer now.