Shelves in the pantry: step by step instruction on manufacturing

Most of the apartments built in Khrushchev's time do not stand out for their spaciousness. However, when constructing such premises, separate and, as a rule, small rooms - pantries - were always provided for. In pantry rooms it was customary to store all kinds of necessary and unnecessary things, clothes and conservation. This tradition has survived to our times, today people equip wardrobes and even workshops from pantries, if the size of the room allows. Compact shelves in the pantry allow you to distribute a lot of different things in a relatively small area.

Calculation of the space

It is rational to use the storage roomcan be by properly placing shelves and shelves in it. The process of making shelves with their own hands does not take much time and does not require additional knowledge, the main thing is a well-organized layout of shelves in the pantry.

You can fill the pantry with different furniture and accessories. When arranging this space, often use shelves, various bedside tables, chests of drawers, mirrors, hanging shelves.

Having organized in your apartment a small closet, it is necessary to decide how correctly to put the shelves in the pantry and thereby save space. Breaking the walls and expanding the room and without that a small apartment is not worth it, better make shelves with your own hands.

If your pantry serves as a storage room for storing preserves and all kinds of jars, then try to make the maximum number of wide and stable shelves from a quality wood with a metal reinforcement that would withstand the load.

For books and other things you can make hanging shelves and shelves with glazing.

In order for the wood material not to rot and not to collapse under the influence of time, it must be covered with stain, varnish or paint when making it.

How to look the standard wooden shelves in the pantry, you can see in the photo below.

Load on shelves

Before making shelves in the pantry, you need to determine the expected load on them. For storage of cans with conservation, strong and stable shelves will fit. But, in general, the load depends on parameters such as:

• board thickness. The more weight of items loaded on the shelf, the thicker the board should be. Optimal thickness - 3 cm;
• mount. To the walls, wooden shelves can be fastened, both with the help of metal appliances, and with wooden blocks. The most qualitative is the fastening to the metal brackets. Plastic in this case is not suitable;
• number of fasteners. The longer the shelf, the more fasteners there are.

Advantages of shelves in the

pantry You can clear your pantry from excess piles of cabinets and shelves by placing shelves in it, as the advantages of these compact structures are obvious:

• saving storage space;
• roomy shelves allow you to hide from sight all unnecessary things;
• shelves in the pantry - this is the rejection of excessively cumbersome furniture;
• rational use of every meter in your apartment.

Tips for making shelf

In order to make the shelf for the pantry correctly, to serve it for a long time, before starting to manufacture, use several important tips:

1. Decide on the appointment of the future shelf. If you plan to store large boxes, sacks and jars in the pantry, you will have to make the shelves spacious and deep.
2. To protect the shelves from damage, the wood must be pretreated with varnish or stain.
3. If your pantry is long and narrow, then the most correct solution is to place the shelves in the form of a letter "P" on three walls.
4. For the production of shelves it is better to use natural wood, and for partitions you can limit yourself to plywood sheets.

Assembly of shelves in the storeroom

Free square meters of your apartment can be rationally used to create a separate room. To decorate the pantry do not need to come up with solid and bulky cabinets or racks, it is enough to arrange in it compact and roomy shelves.

If you agree with this decision, then violate the preparation of the walls. First, inspect the walls for roughness. If there are irregularities, then plaster the walls. It is better to paint surfaces in light colors. Since the pantry itself is a room without windows, the bright walls will remove excess gloom.

For the installation of shelves you will need:

• wooden boards;
• drill or perforator;
• screws;
• brackets;
• building level;
• pencil;
• screwdriver.

When the walls in the pantry are ready for work, first use the pencil and the level to make markings. It is necessary to determine in advance how the shelves will be located, their distance and dimensions. The width of the shelves should allow you to place on them large objects, jars and at the same time, so that the shelves do not block the passage to the room. Dimensions are selected individually, depending on the parameters of the pantry.

Procedure:

1. Screw the brackets to the wall. More durable are metal brackets, since plastic can not withstand heavy loads. Correctly fix the parts to determine the level.
2. Pre-cut boards suitable for the size of your pantry, sand with sandpaper or grinder with a grinding head.
3. Finished shelves treated with stain and varnish.
4. When the boards are completely dry, place them on the brackets and screw them with screws. As a guide, the approximate distance between the shelves should be 0.5 m, and the optimum depth of shelves - 30 cm.
5. When the shelves are fixed to the brackets, you can assume that everything is ready. Such convenient and sturdy shelves in the pantry make it very simple, do not need a lot of materials and special skills.

Shelves in the storeroom of planed boards

Before you start making shelves, stock up on the necessary tools and special metal fasteners. Drills for the perforator should be chosen for wood or concrete, and the thickness of the planed boards for shelves should be equal to 20 cm.

For work you will need:

• jigsaw electric;
• perforator;
• plane;
• screwdriver;
• knife;
• measuring tape;
• pencil;
• self-tapping screws;
• glue PVA;
• sandpaper.

The length of the shelves is chosen individually, depending on the size of your pantry. In addition to planed boards, you will also need long blocks of wood( 4.5 x 4.5 cm), plywood( 8 mm thick).Treat the tree with stain and then varnish.

Manufacturing technology:

1. Before starting work, make a drawing of future shelves. For this sketch on the walls on both sides, design the placement of the shelves.
2. Screw the wooden blocks to the walls with self-tapping screws, which will then fasten the shelves between each other. Thus, you should get a skeleton from the bars.
3. To fit the shelves more conveniently, attach the transverse bars between the longitudinal bars. The distance and height between them should be determined by yourself.
4. Next, from the scraped wood with a jigsaw, cut out the shelves that fit the dimensions of your frame and place them on the cross bars. They should be imposed, as they say, "in the paw" or in each other. Fix them with PVA glue and screws.
5. Make the first and fourth shelves solid, and two medium ones - divide the plywood with each other. In this way, sections are obtained.
6. The number of shelves on both sides can not be limited. Having spent a minimum of free time, you will design the most usual, but very sturdy shelves in the pantry for storing all sorts of things.

Wooden shelf for pantry

To make shelves in the pantry with your own hands, you need 25-30 mm thick boards, 20x30 mm bars. If the width of the pantry allows, then a metal bracket or a piece of pipe is useful.

For work you will need:

• wood( pine) or finished boards;
• self-tapping screws;
• fret saw;
• sandpaper;
• level;
• pencil;
• metal pipes;
• flanges.

Before starting work, make a marking on the wall of the pantry. The most acceptable variant of the installation of shelves is a step of 30 cm. In this case, cans on the shelf can accommodate 3-liter cans and shoe boxes.

Manufacturing technology:

1. Use the construction level and a pencil to mark horizontal lines, both on the side walls of the pantry, and on the rear.
2. Preliminarily cut to the desired size wooden bars attach to the walls. On the sides - bars length 30 cm( this is the depth of the shelf).Fasten each bar to 2 solid screws under the hexagon. Long horizontal bars fix with three screws.
3. Shelves are made from a board that you need to pre-process.
4. Cut out the size of the boards by sanding them with sandpaper or using a grinder with a special nozzle.
5. Finished sanded and hand-treated wooden shelves are laid on the bars and screwed with screws. To do this, you need self-tapping wood for a length of 35-40 mm.
6. When the shelves are in place, it is necessary to strengthen the structure so that the shelves do not bend or break under the weight of the load. In advance, purchase a tube for furniture and 2 flanges per shelf.
7. Trim the first piece of pipe. Its size is the height from the floor to the first shelf. Insert the pipe between the shelf and the floor and attach it with flanges.
8. Try to ensure that the vertical pipe between the shelves is on the same vertical line. In this case, you can achieve maximum stability.

Suspended shelf for pantry

This is not a difficult example of how to make a hinged shelf, it will help you decide on the set of necessary tools and technology of manufacturing shelves in the pantry.

For work you will need:

• wooden board with a thickness of 1.5x2 cm, width - 20 cm;
• wood screws or furniture confitures;
• fret saw;
• drill;
• screwdriver;
• Bulgarian;
• pencil;
• ruler.

First, prepare the tree for work. Cut the length of the board with a jig saw. You will need two boards of 80 cm and two boards of 25 cm each. When the boards are cut off, grind them from all sides with a grinder with a special nozzle. Align the wood surface until it is perfectly smooth.

Manufacturing technology:

1. When the boards are ready, start assembling them. To do this, connect all 4 boards together in such a way that the box comes out. Drill the holes and twist the Confirms.
2. When the box is assembled, on the back side screws screw metal hooks for furniture.
3. Wood cover with stain and then it can be painted in any color or varnished.
4. When the coating dries, a ready-made hanging shelf can be attached to the wall.

You can see the process of manufacturing a wooden shelf on video.