Building Shelves In A Small Closet

Build this handy stool in one hour and park it in your closet.

Building shelves in a small closet.

How to make storage shelves. The middle two shelves are installed 12 inches apart and the top two shelves are installed 10 inches apart. All you need is a 4 x 4 ft. All you need is a 4 x 4 ft.

My space was 80 and we wanted four shelf openings and three shelves. Here s how i installed closet shelves into an awkward too small closet nook. Power tools cutting wood drilling into studs a diy project involving any of those tasks completely intimidates me. We made 2 pockets on the 10 5.

To determine where to place the 1 2 s measure the height of your space and divide by the number of shelf openings. Patch any holes in the walls with. And for a small fraction of what we would have paid for custom closet shelving units. I feel like we ve maximized the heck out of this closet.

Diy custom closet shelves completely transform this standard double closets. Using our kreg jig mini and a small clamp we made pocket holes in the pieces we cut. Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails. Here s our cost breakdown.

This is a great use of space and can be done in a day. You can also use it as a step to reach the high shelf. 13 74 1 x6 ripped in half qty 2 1 49 1 x4 side shelves afterthought. The top four shelves are 11 inches deep.

But i did all of those things for this project and i lived to tell the tale. Build this handy stool in one hour and park it in your closet. To continue in the movable aspect of the closet we opted to make open shelves to place clothes on. Ugh can you even imagine.

If you don t have a power saw you can have all of the. Instructions remove everything from the closet including old shelves you will no longer be using. Cut the strips of mdf to the correct length for your shelves. Create another diy shelving bracket out of pine wood scraps to attach to the corner see picture.

Put diy closet side brackets on following steps outlined above. How to build small closet shelves that do not go all the way across the closet. Due to our closet being. 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.

Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails. Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration. There are also custom fabric bins perfect for a kids room. You can also use it as a step to reach the high shelf.

Make the most of a small entryway closet with diy built in shelves for shoes and coats. Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration. 29 99 4 x8 sheet of melamine. You could call it an open shelf bookcase even though we are using it for clothing.