Too many shoes in my appartment entry.

Free space available in one wall to make a shoe-rack with several layers.

Specification

Wall dimension: 64 cm

Height before electric plug: 95 cm

Optimal depth for shoes: 30 cm

Thickness of common wood: 1.8mm

So, here is the diagram of the project, with 5 levels (can contains up to 15 pairs of shoes)

Prices

Price list:

• Wood + cut: 35.70 + 5 = 40.70
• Varnish: 23.90
• Screw (pack of 100, 4.5 diam x 40mm length): 14.50

Total: 79.1€ (excluding human work, gazoline, etc.)

Varnish References

In case I forgot,

• Brand 3V3
• Type: Varnish
• Finish: Satin Cité
• Color: Chene foncé (the result is much lighter than the image)
• Reference: I218
• Volume: 0.5L (6m2 one layer), water based (was the correct fit, a bit left, but would represent less than one layer)

Steps

1. Measuring and drawing hole location on Inner faces when it applies
2. Drilling the holes
3. Sanding (I did 80 then 180, wanted to be quick)
4. Removing the dust
5. For tablets, I cutted the border to make “vintage effect”. Used a saw from tree branches (not adapted, but OK for that). Then, sanded with 80 to have a smooth finish, then 180.
6. Varnishing upper faces x 2
7. Varnishing lower faces x 2
8. Screwing when dried

It took me one full day: went at 11am to buy the elements, finished at 11pm, with 4 hour breaks (eating + playing with my child) (did not wait fully 2 hours between layers, nor 24h after final layers.)

Tools available: dremel (sanding done by hand, main cut done by the wood shop, tablet cut done by hand).

Process

Raw materials

Preparing location of the holes

Drilling

Varnishing

0 -> 1 layer

1 (left) -> 2 (right) layers

Edging

Cutting with bias the tablets

Sanding

Assembly

Adding the tablets

Before, stack of shoes

Final result