Today’s tutorial is best suited for linen or coat closets! If you’re making really deep shelves or you’re going to be storing heavy item, this closet shelving option is the way to go. She covered her wire shelves with plywood to get a very similar look! Instead of sticking with the unoptimized spacing that was in our current setup, we were able to adjust the shelf spacing and add in TWO more shelves.īut if you’re happy with the current number of shelves in your linen closet, check out Within the Grove’s faux floating shelves tutorial. Third, we got to add more storage ( and who doesn’t need more storage). Seriously…I considered permanently removing the closet door once we were done installing them.
Second, these plywood shelves are SO pretty. First, I don’t have to worry about everything falling over and slipping through the wire shelves. Rather than live in frustration and complete chaos all the days of my life, I decided to swap out the builder-grade shelves for some simple plywood shelves.īuilding shelves in our linen closet is a win-win-win. Everything constantly falls over and you have to strategically and carefully place every single item to avoid a domino of everything else on the shelf. Wire shelves in linen closets drive me BANANAS. It took some searching in every dark corner, but I came up with the perfect number of pieces – both 3/4-inch for the frame and 1/2-inch for the shelves.Ugh. I really wanted to make the closet storage shelf unit from scrap plywood – I just hoped I had enough. I went down to the basement to survey my wood supply. With that, we’d have room for two 9 3/8-inch hanger rods on either side of the closet storage shelves for Handan’s vests. Since I was planning on using 3/4-inch plywood for the cabinet, that would make the overall width 12 1/2 inches. That’s just enough space to fit the Bissell Barfinator and the storage baskets. We decided that 21 inches was a good depth, and we settled on an 11-inch width for the shelves. That would mean we’d have to move the main coat bar and top shelf up from where they were, but that would be perfectly fine. We measured the space in the closet to see how tall I’d need to make the shelf cabinet to be able to hang Handan’s impressive vest collection without them brushing the floor and determined that 35 inches would do it.
I was merely tapped to bring her vision to reality. Ok, the truth of the matter is that the idea and design are all Handan’s. If nothing else, it was due for a coat of cleansing paint. If you recall from the Coat Closet Makeover Plan post, the closet was a scuffed up mess with one wretched wire shelf. Regardless, we’ve got a coat problem, and the only solution is to more efficiently utilize the coat closet space we’ve been given. So it’s infinitely bewildering to me that when we terminated six years in the bleak and frigid wilds of central Connecticut to take up residence in sunny Georgia (a place where spring starts in February!), we didn’t immediately burn our winter paraphernalia in a celebratory bonfire in the back yard!Įither she knows something the rest of us don’t vis-à vis a second Ice Age or she’s been spending a little too much time on the banana farm. If anyone on this insane ball of rock and water is better suited to hot weather than my babes, I haven’t seen or heard of them. Which is kinda weird, ya know? This is a woman who was born and bred in the hot and humid Mediterranean, who lived and worked in the scorching deserts of The Middle East, who flourished in the tropical hothouse of Vietnam and who laughed at the roaring Indian Monsoons. The whole reason behind this coat closet makeover is her refusal to give up the trappings of The North. Our DIY coat closet storage shelves gave us a little more storage room in a small space and allowed us to add two additional hanger bars to hold more coats.
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