With the help of our big clamp we dry fitted our pieces together.
Creating shelves in closet.
Cut your mdf pieces.
The shallow shelves make it easier to locate items at or above eye level.
I can actually walk into my closet now without getting clotheslined by an excessively deep shelf.
It is easiest to paint all of the pieces of.
If your closet.
Step 1 the fun part.
Cut the strips of mdf to the correct length for your shelves.
Using our kreg jig mini and a small clamp we made pocket holes in the pieces we cut.
Instructions remove everything from the closet including old shelves you will no longer be using.
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.
All you need is a 4 x 4 ft.
We made 2 pockets on the 10.
We were slightly worried that adding shelves on the sides would make the closet seem smaller but after having cut the original shelf down to 1 depth instead of 2 it actually opens things up a lot.
We placed one 10 5 piece with the pockets.
How to make storage shelves.
Measure length wise from one end of the closet to the other to get the length of your shelves.
First nail through the sides into the back.
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You can see more about how i designed the shelf configuration in this post.
Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails.
Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration.
How to make storage shelves.
In a perfect world closets would always come with a full functioning effective closet kit but they just don t.
Patch any holes in the walls with.
First nail through the sides into the back.
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Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails.
Use a measuring tape long level and pencil to mark the location of your shelves.
If you don t have a power saw you can have all of the.
Determine how many shelves you want to install in the closet.
Spread wood glue on the joints then nail them together with 8d finish nails.
Install the vertical pieces.
In fact bedroom closets are nearly useless when in their builder grade state.
Time to attach the pieces together.
The width of the shelves depends on how large your closet is and how wide you want the shelves to be.
We did three shelves.
Most closets are equipped with just one rod and a shelf just above it.
The middle two shelves are installed 12 inches apart and the top two shelves are installed 10 inches apart.
The top four shelves are 11 inches deep.
