This convenient shoe caddy is made from recycled 5-gallon buckets and scrap lumber. It’s great for keeping track of shoes in your garage, mud room, or closet. To make it, all you need is some 5-gallon buckets, scrap lumber, and leftover paint.

Shoe Caddy Materials List

• 6 – 5-gallon recycled buckets
• 1 – 1” x 8” x 12’ scrap lumber
• 1 – 30” x 40” scrap plywood
• 1 – Quart leftover paint

Making a Recycled Shoe Caddy:

• Use a sabre saw to cut the lip off the buckets with the rim of the bucket acting as a guide.
• Sand the cut edges on the bucket smooth.
• Arrange the buckets in a triangular shape (other shapes can be used as well), using spring clamps to hold them in place.
• Cut the plywood to size in a triangular shape so that it doesn’t protrude past the buckets.
• Screw the bottom of the buckets to the plywood.
• Cut the 1” x 8” to size at an angle so it forms a tight fitting frame around the buckets.
• Nail the four pieces of frame together.
• Sand and paint the frame.
• Slide the frame over the buckets, and screw the sides of the buckets to it.

  Cut rim off buckets.           Assemble frame.       Attach buckets to frame.

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