Building Shelves In A Small Closet

How to make storage shelves.

Building shelves in a small closet.

Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails. Power tools cutting wood drilling into studs a diy project involving any of those tasks completely intimidates me. Here s our cost breakdown. We made 2 pockets on the 10 5.

Here s how i installed closet shelves into an awkward too small closet nook. Cut the strips of mdf to the correct length for your shelves. It is easiest to paint all of the pieces of. Create another diy shelving bracket out of pine wood scraps to attach to the corner see picture.

But i did all of those things for this project and i lived to tell the tale. To determine where to place the 1 2 s measure the height of your space and divide by the number of shelf openings. Due to our closet being. You can also use it as a step to reach the high shelf.

Instructions remove everything from the closet including old shelves you will no longer be using. How to build closet shelving. If you don t have a power saw you can have all of the. Make the most of a small entryway closet with diy built in shelves for shoes and coats.

Put diy closet side brackets on following steps outlined above. I feel like we ve maximized the heck out of this closet. Using our kreg jig mini and a small clamp we made pocket holes in the pieces we cut. Ugh can you even imagine.

My space was 80 and we wanted four shelf openings and three shelves. The middle two shelves are installed 12 inches apart and the top two shelves are installed 10 inches apart. Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration. All you need is a 4 x 4 ft.

You could call it an open shelf bookcase even though we are using it for clothing. Patch any holes in the walls with. 29 99 4 x8 sheet of melamine. This is a great use of space and can be done in a day.

Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration. To continue in the movable aspect of the closet we opted to make open shelves to place clothes on. I placed the bottom of the 1 2 s every 20 inches creating three shelves and four openings 20 inches apart. Build this handy stool in one hour and park it in your closet.

And for a small fraction of what we would have paid for custom closet shelving units. You can also use it as a step to reach the high shelf. Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails. We installed two 15 inch deep shelves at the bottom and left 16 18 inches of shelf space between each shelf for storing large items like cereal boxes tall bottles and small appliances.

Build this handy stool in one hour and park it in your closet. Diy custom closet shelves completely transform this standard double closets. How to build small closet shelves that do not go all the way across the closet. 13 74 1 x6 ripped in half qty 2 1 49 1 x4 side shelves afterthought.