Building Closet Shelves With Melamine

Building closet shelves if you are wondering how to build a shelf quickly easily and inexpensively read on.

Building closet shelves with melamine. If the idea of taking two pieces of wood screwing them together and create something useful might seem just a little bit like an impossible dream. H coastal teak wood floor mount 6 shelf closet kit with hang rods model 3269 view the closetmaid style series. D x 17 in. Building cabinets and shelving units from double sided melamine sheets are perfect for many home renos and diy projects and in this episode i am showing one.

You can cut melamine sheets with a circular saw and. I always use my kreg shelf pin jig however for melamine i switch over to a 1 4 brad tip bit and use the collar that came with the jig to set my depth. If you re planning to install accessories similar to the ones we used for our white closet. 29 99 4 x8 sheet of melamine.

W x 82 25 in. Prevent chip out by taping where you will cut the melamine shelving. 13 74 1 x6 ripped in half qty 2 1 49 1 x4 side shelves afterthought 10 88 white melamine edge banding 25ft qty 2 0 79 l bracket. Prime paint already had.

We took a melamine board and laid it on each brace. One board can make two 48 side panels. Walk through the closet aisle at any home center and you ll see lots of closet organizers everything from wire shelving systems to ones that look like real wood cabinetry with all kinds of fancy accessories. If i bought a set of premade closet panels of the same length it would cost around 55 give or take a dollar for brand choice.

Here s our cost breakdown. Build your own melamine closet organizer choose your hardware first. That s a significant difference just to get a brand name and a few holes. By far and large the best tool for getting pin holes for adjustable shelving is to use a pin hole jig.

To make a center support between the two shelves notch out a 2 x 2 x 8 so that each shelf will rest on the notch. This would give us the finished look we were after. Building closet shelves with melamine. Closetmaid style 14 in.

And for a small fraction of what we would have paid for custom closet shelving units. Whether you re working on cabinets or building a melamine closet system you will need to have adjustable shelves. Ugh can you even imagine.