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A plywood shoe rack built under a staircase.
The project
What do you do when you have too many shoes and not enough space? Get rid of shoes you don't wear? No, make more space.
Before we bought our house, most previous places we lived in had a wide entrance and therefore having cheap stack-on boards was not a problem: You hide them behind the door and it looks nice and tidy. However, in our house we have stairs, a path to the bottom room and windows on the opposite side to stair wall.
So, what is the solution? You guessed it: break the walls.
After checking and hesitating for some time, we started from the inside of the under-stairs area and found all the studs and construction wood. Then, based on these findings, we removed the plaster from inside and outside and here is the result.
Then the shelf structure was carefully 3D-modelled in Sketch, where later we got the required sizes of each board/wall and the materials we needed.
Off we go to Bunnings to buy some plywood, screws and angle brackets (a lot of angle brackets, I think we got four packets of 20).
Continue the process again and again and you get something like this.
You will ask: "Hmm, these edges don't look very good, what to do?" "No worries, nothing that duct tape or body filler cannot do." After a lot of sanding and applying, sanding and applying over and over and over, it was time to get some paint.
We went to a Bunnings store and grabbed couple of sample papers to compare with our wall. And what a surprise, our wall colour was the most common one.
Back to the store to grab a bucket of the paint and here is the end result.
Kudos to my wife, who did 99 percent of the project.
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Good Afternoon @den1ska
Now that is a better use for sure! Love the way you worked out what you wanted and then took steps to "make it so" 
Also good idea on leaving the support studs for the walls in place. I figure if you dont know what they do then probarly wiser to leave it. Very nice incorporation into your project Has the space overfilled yet? Somehow any horizontal surface attracts "stuff" but getting shoes off the floor and out of the trip zone is a good idea.
Nice work
Dave
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