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For this stud the bottom screw was right on the edge so there's a chance I would have missed it, leading me to check all the studs. Of these 2 methods the first is much faster and proved to be fairly accurate on every stud except one, which happened to be the first stud I tested it on. But this way you know for sure exactly where the stud is. These holes will be covered by the molding so don't worry about them.

Once you've found the top and bottom of the stud use a finish nail to tap holes below the horizontal line. Once I found the stud on the upper part of the wall, I did similar for the same stud on the lower part of the wall and used the level as a straight edge to make tic marks above each line I drew. It actually finds the screws that are driven into the stud (which may or may not be well centered). I have a little magnetic "stud finder" I bought on Amazon for $7 and it works just as well or better than any stud finder I've ever used. You can see our measurements in brackets to make our finished boxes 19.5 inches long x 9.75 inches wide x 15 inches deep.There are 2 methods of doing this: 1. He cut his 2 long pieces for the sides (19.5 inches x 15 inches), 2 shorter pieces for the ends (8.25 inches x 15 inches) and 2 small pieces for the back (this is what you’ll use to mount your boxes to the wall – 8.25 inches x 2.75 inches). Thanks to the helpful HD staff, it didn’t take long to fill up the back of the truck with everything we needed…īrady got right to work building his first box. Seriously y’all, we love the amazing service & great prices – Home Depot is always our go-to for tools, project supplies and even DIY advice! With everything all planned out, we headed to our favourite home improvement store to stock up on supplies. I swear, this box system made for such easy planning! And the beauty of it all is the ability to tailor the box size to whatever sized closet you’re working with! We also tucked a few extra shelves into the middle of some boxes for even more customized storage. We chose to create some shelf towers by stacking several boxes on top of one another, which still left us with plenty of room for some closet rods to give us some hanging space as well. The beauty of this system is the ability to easily customize just by changing the configuration and layout of the boxes. With the length of our boxes decided, the width was sort of an automatic – we wanted to be able to stack two boxes on their sides and have them perfectly match up to the length of another, which meant that the width of a box had to add up to exactly half of the length. This allowed us to place three boxes along the top of of our closet, stretching all the way from one end of the closet to the other on both sides.

Taking into account the length of our closet, the amount of shelving we wanted to see and the height we wanted it all to be, in the end, we decided on a measurement of 19.5 inches long x 9 3/4 inches wide x 15 inches deep. Previously, it was easy to buy a 1×12 pine board for a standard shelf depth. With lumber prices being at an all-time high, building shelves is a little trickier.

Building closet shelves how to#

Brady, being the engineer that he is, drew everything out to scale on some graph paper, which was such a huge help in figuring out just how big we wanted each box to be. Heres a step by step tutorial on how to build linen closet shelves - the easy way Want to make your linen closet more beautiful AND.

We started by measuring out our closet space, planning out exactly where we wanted our shelves to be and how big we wanted to make them. Now, I cannot wait to show y’all how we created it! This really was the most brilliant idea! *All credit to hubs – I had planned a pretty basic, white build that would have had far less wow factor!*Ī little turn here and a few extra shelves tucked in there and we had ourselves a perfect custom closet, tailored to exactly what we needed. Even better, each box is the exact same size, which makes this the easiest custom closet design EVER! Here’s the thing, this closet organizer was built entirely with boxes.