Building Your Own Closet Shelves

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

Building your own closet shelves.

Purchase your closet supplies you ll want strong and sturdy shelves so you ll want to buymdf plywood that is 3 4 thick. My husband bought two sheets of 4 8 plywood for our small closet. Leave the top and bottom of the unit open. Install the vertical pieces.

Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails. Cut the strips of mdf to the correct length for your shelves. You can see more about how i designed the shelf configuration in this post. With tips to build your own closet system and shelves.

Cut the side shelves wall cleats for the side shelves closet rod and top shelf image 2. Step 1 the fun part. It made all the difference. You may need more or less depending on how big your closet is.

It is easiest to paint all of the pieces of. If you don t have a power saw you can have all of the. Closetmaid professional design service. Answer a few questions and for just 5 in a few days we ll provide two professional design variations including a product parts list and options for where to buy.

Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration. Collect the dimensions of your closet space and then let a design specialist design a closet for you. Use wood screws or finishing nails to put the center of the organizer together. Space the shelves evenly or according to the height of the items you plan to store.

We like mdf instead of plywood because it s never warped it s cheaper than plywood and it. All you need is a 4 x 4 ft. How to make storage shelves. Just 2 short years ago we made over our master closet for the 100 room challenge.

Diy plywood closet organizer build plans. Instructions remove everything from the closet including old shelves you will no longer be using. If you re planning to install accessories similar to the ones we used for our white closet. Prevent chip out by taping where you will cut the melamine shelving.

Measure and mark the lumber for the two side shelves four wall cleats for the side shelves closet rod and top shelf image 1. Patch any holes in the walls with. Build your own diy closet organizers with these creative and budget friendly closet system ideas. You can also use it as a step to reach the high shelf.

You can cut melamine sheets with a circular saw and. We did three shelves. Cut your mdf pieces. The width of the shelves depends on how large your closet is and how wide you want the shelves to be.

Prime and paint all wood parts after cutting image 3. Measure length wise from one end of the closet to the other to get the length of your shelves.