Building Wooden Shelves In A Closet

For example if your shelving material is a full 16 inches wide keep the top shelf at that width and rip the supporting partitions to 15 3 4 inches.

Building wooden shelves in a closet.

If you are building straightforward shelves you also need to add wood supports along the back wall of the closet. Consider how deep you want them to be and what materials you ll need to buy in order to make them deeper. Put wood glue on the diy brackets drill pilot hole near the back corner of pine wood board and diy shelving bracket. To assemble the shelving together start from the bottom working upwards and use 1 25 screws in the remaining pocket holes 1 1 8 from the edge.

Again don t forget the level. If you want deeper closet shelves you ll either need to stack boards together to make it wider or you ll need to buy a large sheet of 4 x 8 plywood and cut out the size you want. One quarter inch is a good reveal at each level of the closet. Our top shelves are 40 across the back of the closet.

Put all side diy pine shelving brackets on following steps 6 10 12. Cut down shelves that tie into the partitions to 15 1 2 inches wide. Cut 1 x 12 pine board to desired length equal to the width of your closet.