How do you organize shoes?

beenbizzy

DS is almost 4 and DD is almost 9 months.  DS has play shoes, good shoes, boots, sandals, blah blah blah. DD has a pair of robeez and a pair of tennis shoes that she sometimes keeps on.  We come into the house from the garage and it enters directly into the kitchen.  There is a wall rack for coats and backpacks and I have used a small basket for shoes.  Well, the basket is overflowing now.  Plus, DD loves to pull every shoe out as play.  Not a big deal, but I feel like I am either picking up shoes all day in the kitchen or tripping over them. 

Their bedrooms are down the hall on carpet and we've taught DS no shoes on the carpet, so they would need to take them off and get carried to their room if we put them there. 

 Any ideas for organizing?

KathrynMD

I keep DD's every day shoes (basically sneakers and either mary janes or sandals) near the door.  The rest of her shoes live in her room and come out as needed.  I try to keep all the shoes (mine and DH's) near the door, but they all migrate.

lmdbww

I keep one or two pairs of her shoes in the living room by the door (on a boot tray) and the rest go in a basket in her room by the door.

Now that flip flop season is almost over, her shoe collection will be cut by over half when I put them away so it wont look as messy.

howleyshell

We're lucky that we have a fairly large "mud room" at our garage entry point.

We have these:

https://www.target.com/p/itso-1x1-Cube-with-Shelf-White/-/A-10802013

Each person (5 of us) has a "cubbie" and my kids know to put their shoes in their cubbie when they take them off.

Not sure I'd want something this cheap looking (they're plastic and stackable) in my kitchen but maybe if you could find something nicer that fit the bill?

Dcubed

We too have the kids put the shoes in a basket near the door and it too was overflowing and DD2 would play in it.  I have recently moved the basket to the garage and they are to take their shoes off before they come in and leave them in the basket.  If it is overflowing not as much of an eyesore in the garage as it would be in the house.  These are the everyday shoes/sandels.  Now with the colder weather summer shoes are coming out of the basket and it will only have the sneakers.