I hear the price of plywood has doubled due the the hurricanes (and I'm in the Midwest). The pricing for mine was much higher, around 95$, and I didn't even buy as much plywood. I made these today-thanks for the plans!! What do you think? Where do you store your kids’ toys? Do you have a system? I’d love to hear what works for you! Check out the shelves in our basement playroom on this post on how to keep the toys from taking over. Update 3/14: The shelves are still working great. This has worked out great for us so far and keeps the mess upstairs to a minimum. You might think that I’m the bad dad because I store their toys in the basement, but trust me, there is no possible way they can play with every toy at one time. Screw them to the back using the 1” screws and you have this: I used 8 screws per shelf.Īt this time you should have 1.5 sheets of plywood remaining. Screw the plywood down using the 1” screws. If you would like to add plywood on the top, you will need to purchase another sheet (I chose not to because we’re already at our ceiling height). The reason I used 2 feet deep, is because the plywood is 4 feet wide (only one cut). The reason I used 8 feet wide is because the plywood is 8 feet long (no cuts). If you used my dimensions, it should be very easy – just cut the plywood in half, and nook out a few spots for the vertical supports beams (see picture on right). Now you add the plywood shelves at each level. Then you add the 19.5” supports at the remaining 3 levels and add an additional vertical support in the back: You will drill 4 of them to the frame (as shown on left) then attach the other part of the frame (as shown on right). You need to cut most of the remaining 2x4’s into 19.5” pieces. Now you will need to do a bit of cutting. You will need to make another of these only boards “1” and “2” will need to be on top this time. Once completed, this is half of the frame for your shelf. Since we have some larger toys to store, I made some larger shelves. The spacing of the boards will end up as the height of the shelves. You can use the spacing I used, or make up your own spacing. Then drill boards “5” and “6” to the frame using the same stagger method. Be sure to stagger the screws as shown below so to help prevent the wood from splitting. This was the best method for us since our basement floor is not level to begin with.ĭrill boards “1”, “2”, “3”, & “4” together in the corners using the 2.5” screws. I didn’t use an actual level when making this I just made sure everything was square. If you skip making it square, you will have issues with your shelf not being level. You can also pull out a formula from 8 th grade algebra to determine the appropriate diagonal length: It should measure the same diagonally each way. To make it square, you measure diagonally from one corner to the next. Before drilling them together, you will need to make sure they are square. These will need to be cut to 6½ feet lengths. Here's how to make a basement storage shelf.įirst, you lay out boards “1” and “2”. So after an impromptu trip to Menards (their lumber is decent and their prices are good) and an evening of work, we finally have a place to put them. So here’s the deal – the kids got a ton of toys for Christmas, plus we already had way too many toys in this house.
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