Shoes by the door

What do you put your shoes in at the front door? I want to find something nicer than the plastic tub thing my DH has going on.

Shoes by the front door? 
I don't leave them by the door... i walk into the bedroom, take them off and put them away on a wooden shoe rack/bench thingy.  Ikea sells lots of different styles of shoe racks, so maybe check there for something that would look good by your front door?

Yep, we leave all ours at the front door under our hall table and use an Ikea shoe rack.

Shoe rack as well.

We have this: http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/products/80169561/

So, another Ikea

It works really well for us, the bottom drawer thing has towels to clean the dog when we get in from walks, and there's room for the phone, keys, etc. on the top. Convenient for just inside the door.

I kick them off as soon as I get in, and they stay where they lay (kitchen, living room, hall, stairs, spare room) until one of us (normally the boy) decides to pick them up and put them on the shelves in my wardrobe 

Mine sit on an old scrap of carpet on top of the carpet.  But I only have 2 pairs by the door- work shoes and trainers (which in the winter will be my boots)
I am not a shoe fiend. 

Ours are all piled up at the front door on a mat. We don't wear shoes in the house. My flip flops for out in the garden are at the back door. I would LOVE to have a rack or some type of storage at the front door...but we honestly have NO room, just a space big enough for a pile of shoes  

I've seen racks that hang on the back of the door... would that work for you at all?

I think my DH has been telling me falsehoods!   He said NOBODY wears their shoes indoors in the UK. I guess "nobody" translates to "some people". LOL!

The carpeting is only about 4 years old (that light-coloured 'builder's' carpeting that comes with new homes). We want to get a bit more wear out of it until we can afford to put down better quality, darker, stain resistant stuff.

We take our shoes off in the (very small) foyer and put on our slippers.  I need something that sits on the floor and won't block the stairs. This is just for the shoes we wore that day/came in from outdoors in. All our other shoes are in our wardrobes.

I think maybe just a nice mat would look best.

Ikea shoe racks are amazing and come in lots of sizes/styles.

Do you wear heels? There is this idea: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2012/04/high-heels-hanger-with-bygel.html

Ikea Hackers is an amazing site for ideas! 

We leave our shoes by the door as well, but we don't have a rack or anything. DH was also of the opinion that no one wears their shoes in the house in the UK.

DH was also of the opinion that no one wears their shoes in the house in the UK.

I don't wear shoes in the house, but my man does.

DH was also of the opinion that no one wears their shoes in the house in the UK.

Quite a lot of people in the UK are the same - I was raised to believe that it was rude/bad manners to wear your shoes in the house and that when you are a guest in someone else's home, you should leave your shoes by the door (partly because of the possibility of getting dirt from your shoes on the floors and carpets).

Not everyone is the same, but it is quite common not to wear shoes in the house and to leave them by the door instead.

In the US I always asked unless I knew specifically if they did things one way or the other. In my parent's house, guests left their shoes on for parties and things, but when we came home, we took our shoes off at the door and took them to our own rooms to put away.