Shoes rack (Taobao)

Completion date: January 30, 2019

There are around 20-24 pairs of shoes (in the household) and my existing 4-tier shoe rack (used for 9 years) was long overloaded. I looked on Taobao and one of the things this delivery was a brand new 10-tier shoe rack...and I get to assemble them. Yes!

It's not a creation, but it's one of the "toolwoman's" fantasy to assemble new stuff! Anyways, this shoe rack comes with 16cm per tier, but I asked for 2 other different heights, 21cm and 35cm (if I remembered correctly). The original design was to have a fabric installed on each tier, but I really don't think it's necessary. I think it would be bad to install it personally.

It was really easy to install, I didn't even use the little wooden hammer nor the gloves provided by the shop. So the top 2 tiers are for the shoe boxes (about 10). The rack was RMB $108.

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