![]() Once the shelves were dry to the touch, we placed them in the closet… I didn’t paint the edges of the pine because I didn’t want them to get thicker and not fit in the closet properly – and on the front we were going to be putting a facing so it didn’t need to be painted. It dried pretty quickly so I was able to paint one side, dry, flip it and paint the other side, etc. I painted one coat of primer and two coats on each side of the pine shelves that I bought at the hardware store – I used our dining room table with a drop cloth as a surface, and used a foam roller. I sanded off the walls and gave the closet two coats of bright white paint. Next, a few things happened that I don’t have great pictures of! We first attached it on the outer side (into the drywall anchor) and then used the level to make sure the brackets were straight.Īnd lastly we screwed it into the corner stud… Next, it was time to actually screw the open shelves in. Then he predrilled on the one side, where the shelves would not go into a stud and we needed to add a drywall anchor.Īnd we put in a drywall anchor to hold the screw on that side of the bracket. The other screw is hidden but you can see it peeking out underneath my husbands right thumb in the picture below: That screw is on an angle because we wanted to screw it into the stud in the corner of the closet wall. We predrilled and added screws to the 1×2 – as you can see in the corner. We used our mitre saw to make the cuts, but you could use any saw, even a hand saw to cut these pieces to length. We used pieces of 1×2 that had been cut to the length that we wanted the shelves to be (depth). Hubs used a level and marked on the wall where the shelves would go. We also filled all the old holes from the previous wire shelving hardware with wall filler. I just stayed with the same spacing because it had worked before, but this is the perfect time to switch up your shelf spacing if you want to. We started by taking out all the old wire shelving (which I plan to donate) and then marking on the wall where the new custom shelves will go. I really wanted to switch those bad-boy wire shelves out for some custom looking solid wood shelves. The one advantage it had was in giving us a solid shelf surface in our linen closet. But I knew. In my heart, I knew. I had disliked that wire shelving so much that a few year’s ago I had used foam board and contact paper to cover it. Okay, actually, it really looked like this: Our linen closet looked like this when we started… For painting, I used Kilz Primer and Simply White Paint by Benjamin Moore. We also used drywall filler, a putty knife, DAP, our caulking gun, our (Dad’s) nail gun and air compressor, 1.5″ wood screws, a small level, our drill, and our mitre saw. I also purchased two 8′ lengths of 1×2 to use as the shelf support brackets on each side and then two 8′ lengths of a thin trim board to beef up the look up the shelves along their fronts. To build these custom shelves, I went to my local hardware / wood store and purchases two 8′ lengths of solid pine shelving (16″ deep), and had it cut into 32″ lengths (the width of our closet). ![]() So once again, the organization project got just that little bit bigger…īut it was totally worth it, don’t you think? So once I got started on our linen closet organizational makeover and had everything out of the closet and sitting in the hallway… I realized, that what I really wanted was new shelving. It leaves marks on your clothes and linens. Because truly, it’s my least favourite storage solution of all the choices. Our whole house was full of wire shelving. To provide a service to you in your daily life of storage needs.īut functional or not, I really can’t stand wire shelving. Sometimes it’s the little things that make a big difference. I will show you how replacing your wire shelves with custom wood shelving can make a big difference!
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