We did three shelves.
Creating shelves in closet.
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The shallow shelves make it easier to locate items at or above eye level.
Built in storage is essential in closets these days.
We placed one 10 5 piece with the pockets.
Install the vertical pieces.
If your closet.
All you need is a 4 x 4 ft.
Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration.
How to make storage shelves.
First nail through the sides into the back.
The top four shelves are 11 inches deep.
Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails.
In a perfect world closets would always come with a full functioning effective closet kit but they just don t.
All you need is a 4 x 4 ft.
Determine how many shelves you want to install in the closet.
The width of the shelves depends on how large your closet is and how wide you want the shelves to be.
I can actually walk into my closet now without getting clotheslined by an excessively deep shelf.
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Step 1 the fun part.
In fact bedroom closets are nearly useless when in their builder grade state.
Most closets are equipped with just one rod and a shelf just above it.
Cut your mdf pieces.
You can see more about how i designed the shelf configuration in this post.
We made 2 pockets on the 10.
How to make storage shelves.
Use a measuring tape long level and pencil to mark the location of your shelves.
With the help of our big clamp we dry fitted our pieces together.
Cut the plywood pieces according to the illustration.
Using our kreg jig mini and a small clamp we made pocket holes in the pieces we cut.
Patch any holes in the walls with.
Time to attach the pieces together.
Cut the strips of mdf to the correct length for your shelves.
First nail through the sides into the back.
Instructions remove everything from the closet including old shelves you will no longer be using.
It is easiest to paint all of the pieces of.
Plywood wood glue and a handful of 8d finish nails.
The middle two shelves are installed 12 inches apart and the top two shelves are installed 10 inches apart.
Spread wood glue on the joints then nail them together with 8d finish nails.
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 like mdf instead of plywood because it s never warped it s cheaper than plywood and it.
