Building Closet Shelves With Melamine

Ugh can you even imagine.

Building closet shelves with melamine.

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. One board can make two 48 side panels. We took a melamine board and laid it on each brace. 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.

Prevent chip out by taping where you will cut the melamine shelving. That s a significant difference just to get a brand name and a few holes. 29 99 4 x8 sheet of melamine. Build your own melamine closet organizer choose your hardware first.

Build your own melamine closet organizer. Fyi the 19 melamine boards also come with shelf holes predrilled for a cost of 27. 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. Building closet shelves with melamine.

W x 82 25 in. 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. By far and large the best tool for getting pin holes for adjustable shelving is to use a pin hole jig. 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.

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. Closetmaid style 14 in. D x 17 in. This would give us the finished look we were after.

If you re planning to install accessories similar to the ones we used for our white closet. Whether you re working on cabinets or building a melamine closet system you will need to have adjustable shelves. Here s our cost breakdown. Building closet shelves if you are wondering how to build a shelf quickly easily and inexpensively read on.

We notched it so that 3 4 of it s thickness was uncut because we planned to finish off the shelves with a 1 x 3 on the front. Prime paint already had. And for a small fraction of what we would have paid for custom closet shelving units.