DIY closet system

My wife and I are expecting our first child in a few months, and we've been using his room for storage, so I decided to redo our bedroom closet and get his room cleared out! This is the first time I've built something like this, and I'm happy with how it came out! The first two pictures are of the finished closet, and the rest are progress pictures. I wanted to feature my wife's wedding dress that her mom got boxed for her so we could see it everyday. The dress is centered in the doorway as you enter the closet. The base is just 2x4's and all of the vertical supports and shelving is 3/4" plywood. The shoe shelving was actually made with dados. Probably overkill, but I wanted to try to make them. They're not perfect, but it is very sturdy! All of the other plywood connections were made with pocket holes. I thought a neat idea was to have the top shelves sitting on vertical supports in every corner, as well as the vertical supports from the shelving. We won't be putting much weight on those shelves, but I'm pretty confident they could hold a lot of weight. There's actually two long vertical supports that are the color of the wall in each back corner as you walk in to help support the top shelves. I used 1.5" pine trim for the front of everything, and used it to make the shelving look like it goes all the way to the ceiling. And I think the baseboards ended up tying everything together really nicely! submitted by /u/HollowKnight-15 [link] [comments]

Mar 22, 2025 - 22:54

My wife and I are expecting our first child in a few months, and we've been using his room for storage, so I decided to redo our bedroom closet and get his room cleared out! This is the first time I've built something like this, and I'm happy with how it came out! The first two pictures are of the finished closet, and the rest are progress pictures.

I wanted to feature my wife's wedding dress that her mom got boxed for her so we could see it everyday. The dress is centered in the doorway as you enter the closet. The base is just 2x4's and all of the vertical supports and shelving is 3/4" plywood. The shoe shelving was actually made with dados. Probably overkill, but I wanted to try to make them. They're not perfect, but it is very sturdy! All of the other plywood connections were made with pocket holes. I thought a neat idea was to have the top shelves sitting on vertical supports in every corner, as well as the vertical supports from the shelving. We won't be putting much weight on those shelves, but I'm pretty confident they could hold a lot of weight. There's actually two long vertical supports that are the color of the wall in each back corner as you walk in to help support the top shelves. I used 1.5" pine trim for the front of everything, and used it to make the shelving look like it goes all the way to the ceiling. And I think the baseboards ended up tying everything together really nicely!

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