Underbed and Space Saving Shoe Storage Ideas

The extra space under your bed often goes to waste. It presents a great opportunity for sorting all kinds of clutter, of which shoes are a primary candidate. Keep reading to learn our five favourite shoe storage tips and let clutter be a thing of the past.

Finding extra space to store your belongings can be a frustrating task, so consider how to best utilise the space you already have. For example, under bed shoe storage is an ideal way to avoid that extra footwear filling up the bottom of your wardrobe.

Keeping style and design at the forefront of your mind, these five storage solutions will help you make the most of the space under your bed.

1. Slide-Out Storage Boxes

Perhaps the most obvious storage option, boxes under the bed can be a classy way to organise your excess items. Slide-out drawers are a perfect way of creating cost-effective under bed shoe storage if you’re not yet ready to invest in a bed that features extra storage options.

As a perk of being its own product rather than an integrated feature, these storage boxes are also conveniently removable if you ever decide to swap them out for a more streamlined look to your bedroom.

The modern underbed storage box from Get Laid Beds is a solution to under bed shoe storage with wheels, and comes in a range of sizes so that you can tailor your storage needs to whatever best fits your pre-existing furniture.

2. Shoe Organiser Bags

A classic option, organisational canvas bags are widely available for storing your shoes. These come with pre-existing dividers that stop your shoes getting muddled in the process of moving them around, and the excess space under your bed is perfect for storing such bags.

Whilst convenient, these bags and cases are a little less subtle than other options due to their material and soft structure. This just means they might look like less of a permanent fixture to your bedroom aesthetic, so if this isn’t for you, keep reading for some of our more integrated under bed shoe storage ideas.

3. Flush drawers

Many of our beds come with built-in drawers if you prefer a flush, discreet look to your storage solutions. In the case of shoes, drawers are a great way to separate by style or occasion.

Two drawer bed styles like our platform storage bed provide the ability to keep casual styles in one and formals in the other. Alternatively, our London storage bed has one large sliding drawer so that you can keep everything together.

In either case, flush drawers are a great way to organise your shoes in a perfectly customisable and subtle way.

4. Open Shelving

Open shelving is a stylish alternative to boxes and drawers, especially if you’re keep to flaunt an illustrious shoe collection. This method is perfect for if you just have a few pairs too many for your usual storage, so that you can keep your proudest pairs facing out into the room.

Interspersing shoes with a potted plant or two would really tie this display together, making it a statement as well as a convenient design.

5. Ottoman Storage

This style is the opposite to open shelving and therefore comes with its own set of perks. Whilst an ottoman storage bed may make its contents less immediately accessible, they are the most discreet of all storage options. 

Ideal for storing those special occasion shoes, ottoman storage keeps your belongings hidden from children or pets, keeping them in pristine condition. Our ottoman beds can be sized to meet your needs, but some of our most popular choices include single ottoman beds, double ottoman beds and king size ottoman beds.

Space-Saving Shoe Storage Ideas

Have you exhausted all the space under your bed? While it does present a big opportunity, underbed storage isn’t infinite. So, at some point, you’ll need to think outside the box. If you’re wondering how to store shoes in a small space, keep reading for more ideas:

Narrow Cabinets

While adding extra furniture to a small space may feel counterintuitive, it’s important to make a distinction between functional and non-functional furniture. Decorative pieces, by their name, are purely to be used for decorative purposes, like adding character or filling voids. When space is limited, your furniture is best chosen on a practical basis first, and then designed around.

Narrow cabinets present a great opportunity when it comes to organising your shoes. Slimmer than your average cabinet, narrow cabinets provide just enough room for your shoes to be stacked at a slight angle, making the most of any vertical space you have left over. 

Combining multiple cabinets can provide you with the same effective surface area as a traditionally sized one, albeit with the added benefit of additional shoe storage built-in.

DIY PVC Shoe Racks

Who doesn’t love a bit of DIY? When trying to fix your shoe storage woes, why not take to the shed to whip up a solution that you can truly call your own?

Wide diameter PVC piping makes for great, modern-looking shoe storage. Simply find some piping with an inner diameter that’s larger than two pairs of shoes stacked on top of each other, measure your largest pair of shoes, and cut your pipe to the same length to ensure a snug fit for even your smaller pairs.

Then, arrange the pipes in a staggered, stacked pattern to create your very own adaptive piece of furniture that you can customise to fit your own needs. Need more storage? Simply add more off-cuts.

Floating Shelves

Floating shelves aren’t just decorative. While they do a good job of holding onto your trinkets, they also provide functionality benefits, especially when arranged creatively.

If you have loads of shoes, one shelf doesn’t cut it. Like with the PVC piping, setting up multiple floating shelves in and amongst each other helps to create the illusion of one piece of furniture, all while offering a high level of customisation. 

Over-Door Organisers

When thinking about storage, your room’s doors aren’t usually where our first thoughts go. Doors are the entryway to our rooms and are quite tricky when it comes to storage, right?

Wrong. Thanks to some clever products, like over-door organisers, you can make the most of this otherwise unutilised spaced to be able to store your shoes in an ingenious, easily accessible location. That’s right, no additional furniture, no drilling or assembly, just simply hang the organiser over your door and fill it with your shoes.

Find Shoe Storage Solutions, Here

Have we given you that much needed injection of inspiration? In which case, check out all our underbed storage bed options and get a start on decluttering your bedroom.

For more information about all our products, talk to the team today.