Properly equipped for carpet protection
My new apartment has very light colored carpet that was installed earlier this week and my roommate and I agreed that we should endeavor to keep it looking as nice as possible. We will therefore graciously enforce a shoes off rule. In order to facilitate such a request easily, I purchased a shoe rack to go by the front door. This is useful for a few reasons. We can keep shoes that we wear most often by the door for easy access and allow a place for guests to place their shoes. It will also help maintain a much neater look than just piling shoes by the door. It was not expensive and will provide excellent assistance to our efforts to maintain clean floors and a neat apartment.