Of course she can, in times of extreme neatness, fit everything into the closet, and even get the door to close. But more often than not, there are a couple of pairs of shoes by the front door, yesterday's flats still squashed in the bottom of her gym bag, and a pair of boots in the living room.

In order to corral it all, she's invested in some sleek shoe racks that hold her shoes, and when she mounts the racks a few inches above each other on the back wall of her closet, it creates a sort of shoe sculpture that, if she doesn't say so herself, looks kind of cool.

Girlawhirl found her horizontal shoe racks at designwithinreach.com. They come in both small and large.