These benches have amazing hinges!  They are sturdy and heavy but seems like the bottom won’t hold much weight.  We bought 2 and use them for toy storage behind our couch in the living room.  I am nervous my kids or their cousins will try to crawl in them during hide and seek and break the bottom out.  
We have stored two large boxes of magnet tiles, kickballs, need guns, stuffed animals.  

The shoe inserts just slide right out.

We love them. 

Oh!  The blue is a deep blue.  The images done do it justice.  It’s darker than online