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I've made a pantry addition with large coffee cans. It looks industrial and stores a lot.
Thanks for featuring another great project.
Andrea

this type of design (or at least this execution) has rows of odd numbers -- total number of openings is 27. Back to the drawing board... Good early attempt though.

genius!!! I need to make this for my disfunctional closet immediately

Cool idea! I don't have a space for something like this, but I'll keep it in mind if I ever land somewhere bigger!

That looks really cool!

And it totally reminds me of those little shoe cubbies where you left your shoes when you went to frolick in the McDonalds Playland, or whatever. Minus (hopefully) the sweaty odor...

It's one of these ... you know ... "how come nobody had thought of that before"?!

@CrowNology: That sounds really cool! Do you have any pictures? What do you store in it? How tall is it? Where do you keep it - in the cabinets or outside? Are they stacked like the pipes above or vertically?

Cute! And cardboard mailing tubes are even cheaper, and can be held together with brads.

@ krunkinator

the reason it has 27 is because the design is not symmetrical. probably this was on purpose to give the structure more stability on the floor. if you added the bottom row of 3 pipes you would have an even 30, but then the structure would only be resting on 3 pipes, so more likely to fall over. the inventor could add a simple stand or something to the bottom for stabilization.

I like this idea ... it seems like it could work well for wine bottles too!

ahh i love this, with my tiny shoes i could fit both in each spot too!! project time.

if you have a huge assortment of flip flops that dont weigh much, maybe plastic soda bottles could work if you're not able to cut glass safely on wine bottles.

White PVC pipes glued together, perfect solution and very chic too!

Hi scoot,
Symmetry has nothing to do with it.
If it were 5,6,5,4 pipes, it'd still be symetrical, and have an even number for complete pairs of shoes --
But my beef is that there is an odd row anywhere. We store shoes in pairs, NEXT to eachother. We don't play the memory or matching game with shoes. This would be fine for wine or honeybees or anything that doesn't rely on pairs.

Use the 27th space for your shoe shining supplies.

Or, the 27th space clearly has 2 pairs of flipflops in the picture.

make the top functional by adding a 1x10 board of primed pine or nice oak if lucky enough to find scraps at your local lumberyard. will still be able to strap with tension belt. will then tuck nicely underneath hanging shirts in your closet too.

This is a cool idea. I wonder if heels and boots would feel left out though :(

I think this is a great idea. I think this would look especially cool in a industrial loft setting.

Very cool!

I think it's a great idea, and perfect for me with my many, many pairs of flats and sandals that can easily be stored together.

I think Krunkinator has taken this a little too seriously. What does it matter that it's odd, if it's functional and looks good? Seems a little nit-picky to me. I, for one, don't like to store shoes in neighbouring compartments, but in the same compartment. For me, storing them in neighbouring compartments just takes up too much space.

Love the idea, however, there are only 27 tubes. Adding three more at the top would create 30. Enough for 15 pairs of shoes.

Yep, I'm cursed with the way I view things. :>)

I think this would also be a nice idea for a wine rack, if you gave it a coat of paint. You could do something like this inside of one of those cheap cube bookcases maybe.

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