Build Shelves in a Closet

Although, you can purchase any of the suitable closet system from a large range of varieties, but building one for your own is a great way to get a closet system of your choice. Building shelves in a closet is an easy, economical and simple way to add storage to your room. You can build shelves with simple tools and a little bit of effort.

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Required Items

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Following articles are required to build a closet shelves:

- Glue
- Shelf pins
- Plywood strips
- Brackets
- Tape measure
- 3/4 inch melamine sheets
- Pencil
- Screw-hole caps
- Saw
- Drill
- Self sinking screws
- Closet rails
- Edge banding
- Graph paper

Steps

1. The size of shelves is normally depends on the things you want to store in closet. Normally shelves are 12 inches deep depending on the closet design. For shirts and pants you may need an area 40 inches in height while for over coats and dresses it will be nearly 65 inches. Make certain that you have got all the measurement right.

2. Make a blueprint for your design. Take a pencil and graph paper and make a rough plan of your closet design on it. The design must include the number of shelves, distance between them, depth of each shelf and all the required information. For a full length shelf, leave a space of about 12 inches on the top of the closet. Utilize all the space that would be handy in coming time. Make sure that you can access the corners easily while designing your shelves.

3. To avoid any injury, use goggles and gloves.

4. Take a melamine and cut it to the required length. You have to do it slowly to avoid any chip on the surface of melamine.

5. Now edge band the front part of the melamine to give it a finer look. Edge banding is not required on the sides or back because those parts would not be visible.

6. Install the brackets on the surface of the closet and secure each bracket with screws.

7. Taking help from templates and jigs, drill holes for shelves. The drill bit used must be equal to the size of shelf pins.

8. Fasten the melamine to the walls of the closet, and then fix the closet rods. In the end install the shelves on their right slots.

Tips
- Use mineral spirits or paint thinner to remove the excess glue from edge banding.
- If you don't want to do cutting work, you can seek help from local cabinet shop. You can inquire about the pricing and have your cut work done easily.

Build Shelves in a Closet

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