First, I decided on a size for our shelving. Our basement isn’t finished yet, but we do have a pretty good idea for the floor plan down there, so we built the shelving to fit the space that will be for my fruit room, or also known as the cold storage room. Because we basically knew where the walls would go when we finish the basement, the size of our shelving unit fits into those specifications. If you use this tutorial as a guide, feel free to adjust the size.
To get the most use out of the shelving, I wanted them to be in a “L” shape. Not only did it fit the “room” best, but it would provide ample storage space, which made me extremely excited. For the small part of the shelf, we made it 4′ wide x 32″ deep x 77″ tall. For the long side piece, we decided on 10′ wide x 32″ deep x 77″ tall.
Here’s how we made them…
Anthony started by making the actual frame for each shelf. This picture only shows one middle bracing for the shelving support, but he went back through and added two more on each side for extra support.
When he had all of the shelves put together, we began building the shelving unit in our basement. We started with the small shelf first, adding the top and bottom shelf. We used two 2″ x 4″ boards, cut to length, as the actual “frame”.
Anthony pre-drilled all of the screw holes…
Once we had all of the shelves in place, we were left with this…
With the small side done, we started working on the large side. Carrying the huge shelves down into our basement is a memory I want to forget. It was partly brutal, partly exhilarating, and partly exciting…. but if I had to pick one to stick with, it would be brutal.
We followed the same steps as the small section of shelving, but this was definitely more time consuming.
We added the side boards and screwed them in place…
Once they were attached, we added the bottom shelf first, using clamps to help hold the shelves in place while Anthony attached them with screws. No pictures of this step, because I was holding onto the other end of the shelf for dear life…
The picture below shows how we used the clamps as a “bracket” to keep the shelves in place. Thank goodness for those!
Oh man. This is such a beautiful sight!
For some extra support on the large shelves, Anthony cut extra pieces of 2″ x 4″ to stick in the middle of each shelf…
At some point, Anthony and I will probably install some fronts & sides to each shelf, that way jars won’t slide off, but for now we’re calling them done.
I couldn’t wait to start adding to them! Total happy dance moment!
I have plenty of space to keep adding, and after I had all of the jars out of boxes and placed in an orderly fashion (I was lucky enough to get the old jars from two of my great grandmothers!), I found three more boxes in our garage. …sigh…. So back to organizing I went.
I just love that I have extra space to keep adding to our food storage, and pantry items.
I mean, anything is better than this, right?
At any point, a few jars could have fallen off…
I’ll take my new shelves any day over those!
So, I’m on my way to meeting one of my goals for this year. The next thing we need to do, is build my raised garden boxes. I’ll also do a happy dance for those.
ENROLL TODAY!
April 2016
Original article and pictures take http://www.thewoodgraincottage.com/2016/04/04/diy-basement-shelving/ site
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