Building Your Own Closet Shelves

You can cut melamine sheets with a circular saw and regular woodcutting blade but its brittle faces are prone to chipping out.

Building your own closet shelves.

You can buy this awesome dowel kit that provides the support. Use dowels as a support for your shelves. If you are building simple shelves rather than cubbies you also need to add a long shelf support along the back wall of the closet. A hacksaw will work but a bolt cutter will make for smoother easier cuts.

Simply cut another 1 x2 board to the length of your shelves minus three inches. To create the cubby dividers cut more mdf to size. To avoid marring closet sidewalls cut full length shelves at least 1 2 in. Make sure it is level and then screw this support to the studs along the back wall.

Just 2 short years ago we made over our master closet for the 100 room challenge it made all the difference. Some other supplies that you ll need for your custom built diy closet are listed below. I m sorry for taking so long to share the tutorial of how we built the custom shelves in my closet. You could call it an open shelf bookcase even though we are using it for clothing.

To minimize this problem use a 60 tooth carbide tipped blade and apply masking tape to the top side of your workpiece wherever you make a cut. With a handful of dowels a quartet of closet rods and a single sheet of plywood ana white created this diy closet organizer and you can too using the woodworking plans she provides free. Use a bolt cutter rather than a hacksaw the manufacturer s instructions suggest using a hacksaw to cut wire shelving. Because this is a bedroom we use formaldehyde free plywood and no voc primer a.

The honest truth is that when we were building these i thought intensive construction tutorials would just not be your thang so i didn t take awesome photos at the time. Shorter than the length of the closet. This closet organizer project makes the best use of the space in the closet.