Building Closet Shelves With Melamine

One board can make two 48 side panels.

Building closet shelves with melamine.

Whether you re working on cabinets or building a melamine closet system you will need to have adjustable shelves. 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. If you re planning to install accessories similar to the ones we used for our white closet. You can cut melamine sheets with a circular saw and.

And for a small fraction of what we would have paid for custom closet shelving units. That s a significant difference just to get a brand name and a few holes. Fyi the 19 melamine boards also come with shelf holes predrilled for a cost of 27. 29 99 4 x8 sheet of melamine.

By far and large the best tool for getting pin holes for adjustable shelving is to use a pin hole jig. Building closet shelves with melamine. This would give us the finished look we were after. We took a melamine board and laid it on each brace.

Closetmaid style 14 in. Build your own melamine closet organizer choose your hardware first. 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. Prevent chip out by taping where you will cut the melamine shelving.

Building closet shelves if you are wondering how to build a shelf quickly easily and inexpensively read on. Ugh can you even imagine. Here s our cost breakdown. 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.

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. 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. Build your own melamine closet organizer. D x 17 in.

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. 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. Prime paint already had.