Get Organized with Homemade Shelves
Organize your kitchen cabinets
Your kitchen cabinets come with vertical lines of holes, known as shelf pin holes. Though you likely have a few shelves supported by means of these holes already, you may wish to get better organized with more homemade shelves.
Simply visit your home improvement store and buy angle shelf supports in the same diameter as the holes in your cabinets. Next, buy shelves that match the width of your cabinets and do not exceed the depth. When you get home, slip the angle shelf supports into the holes, then suspend a shelf over them.
Organize your closets with more shelves
If you want more shelving space in your closet, you can easily achieve this by adding homemade shelves. At a home improvement store buy shelf support brackets (the cheapest ones will do). Next buy a wooden shelf that does not exceed the width and depth of your closet.
Attach the shelf support brackets at a distance equal to the length of the shelf. If the shelf is long, it’s a good idea to add another support bracket in the middle. Further, for extra-strength, consider using toggle bolts instead of ordinary screws to attach your brackets to the wall. Once attached, simply screw your shelf into the holes in the brackets.
Organize your closets with more hanging space
If you’d like to trade a few shelves for more hanging space, consider organizing your closet with closet rod brackets. Simple rod brackets will support a rod alone. Alternatively, you can buy shelf rod support brackets, which can support a shelf above and will still provide you with the hook on which to suspend a rod.
Consider exchanging the existing shelf support brackets in your closet for ones that will support a rod as well. You’ll find rods at your home improvement store. And you can always use the store’s cutting services to fit the rod to your closet.
Organize your closets with partial shelves
Metal shelving also offers a simple way to organize your closet. The shelves are supported on metal stands that reach to the floor. Simultaneously, you can create partial shelves in the middle of closet and support the metal shelves above (see picture).
Simply buy shelf rod support brackets and install a shelf that goes halfway across your closet width. Next suspend a short rod on the rod support, to hang garments. Finally, cut the metal support leg of the metal shelving above and rest it atop the short wood shelf you installed blow.
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