There was always a need for a proper place to store my several pairs of sport shoes. It had to be in the veranda. Visiting www.pinterest.com gave me some clues, but I adapted my own when I did. It was directly connected with the available 'junk'.
I needed two long 1x3 pieces of wood, 69 inches long, lots of patience and a large bagful of time. And something to make the racks. I got them all today.
I looked for wooden beading pieces for the racks but there were not many. So wrote it off. Then a Eureka moment. Two ten-feet lengths of aluminium double channels which I did not need were posing problems of storage as they were rendered useless. These were the one that would suit.
That is the place I wanted to have the rack. The boxes are removed for this picture - for pre-cleaning.
I cut the channels as per planned measurements and folded the pieces at two places. These would serve as racks. This was a better way of 'getting rid of them' as taking to the shop for refund or exchange was not feasible - due to its 10-feet. They had come with other materials in a goods vehicle last year but only two other channels were of use and these two were left overs.
Wok in progress. The racks are being nailed to the wood. I gave a slight slant backwards so that when the shoe box is kept, it would stay in place properly.
Rack in place. I secured the rack to the mesh behind it with wires.
There, that is my space saver shoe rack.
'....available junk...' That says it all! I'm glad you saved the pic of the finished rack till the last part of the blog entry; this kept my mind abuzz with thoughts like 'Now, how is he going to use this as a rack?' What fun. Thanks for another wonderful project/story, Dinu!
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