Tall vs Wide Hallway Shoe Cabinets: Making the Most of Your Floor Plan

Choosing between a tall and a wide shoe cabinet is really a question about your hallway's floor plan. Tall cabinets store more pairs on a small footprint and fit the short stretches of wall found between doors, radiators and stairs. Wide, low cabinets give you a useful top surface for keys and a lamp, keep the upper wall open and sit neatly beneath windows. In this guide we explain how to sketch your hallway before you look at furniture, and what each shape offers along with the trade offs to consider. We look at when using both shapes together makes sense, why depth is the measurement that matters most, and how hallway shapes tend to differ in Victorian terraces, interwar semis, new build houses and flats. We also cover visual proportion, styling each shape, living with the cabinet day to day and the practical checks worth making before you place an order....