At offices or any institutions, shoe racks are ideally placed outside of the door or entrance where people leave their footwear and enter inside. While at homes, it is typically placed near the door inside the entrance or on the porch or right outside the threshold. In Hindu mythology, the vastu shastra dictates that any footwear, shoes or shoe racks have to be placed on the south-west or west corner. It also dictates that never should anyone place a shoe rack in the south-east, east and north directions.