Balancing on One Foot While Wearing Heels

While “no shirts/no shoes/no service” might be the rule in retail, at home the “no shoes” rule means shoes are not to be worn in the home. Practically speaking, how does this rule play out? Some homeowners resort to keeping most shoes in the garage (cold, and who know what may have crawled into the shoes.) Others have shoes piling up by (and sometimes blocking) the door from the garage. A better design is to include a seat or bench in the rear foyer transition space leading in from the garage. Guys don’t think much about balancing on one foot while slipping off the other shoe. But when you’re wearing heels…

Having a seat is great for sitting down to untie shoes, but if the space beneath the seat is open, it becomes a natural shoe storage area. (Note-if the area below the bench is open for shoe storage, leaving it flush with the floor makes easy work of sliding kids’ shoes under the bench as you walk by!)