I call it the shoe rack because I hope it helps to keep the bazillion pairs of my kids shoes from collecting in front of the door going from the garage into the house. It's really just more storage area....and a good place to put shoes. It utilizes the French Cleat wall I perviously built
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| I used pocket screws and biscuits to attache the sides to the back. Working with 8 foot sections proved to be a bit of a pain as the plywood warped enough to cause issues. |
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| I drilled the holes for the adjustable shelves before fixing the sides to the back. |
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| These Kreg Clamps help a lot when trying to put these together. If you are going to use pocket holes, I'd highly recommending getting at least one of these, two is better. |
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| The sides were glued and screwed and the biscuits were more for helping with alignment. I have trouble keeping things aligned when I use pocket holes so I use biscuits or a shallow dado/rabbet. |
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| Just using screws did not pull everything together so I had to use clamps. |
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| After the glue had dried, it was time to put the top and bottom pieces in place. Well, I found out the the sides were not square to the back and the top edge (as pictured above) bowed in in the middle of the cabinet) So instead of having maybe one fixed shelf in the middle, I had to put in 3 fixed shelves to keep the sides spread to the proper width. These were just glued into place as they will never be supporting a significant amount of weight. I also used 1/4 inch poplar for the edge banding. I used a scrap of the ply to set the spicing between the table saw blade and the fence. I glued and nailed the trim in place. |
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| This side faces out to the garage so I wanted to have some decorative aspect. I used 1/4 inch poplar, 1 1/2 inches wide to do this. |
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| The cabinet is 8 feet tall and the inside width is 9 inches and about 10 1/2 deep. |
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| The decorative moulding on the left side over laps the edge banning, making it look wider. |
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| Just a different view |
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| I had to custom cut each piece of edge banding for the fixed shelves to make sure the fit properly. I then gulled and nailed and clamped them in place. |
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| I added some cross pieces of moulding at the level of each fixed shelf. I may go back and slightly round the inside edges over with my trim router. Not sure if I will do this or not. |
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| These are the screws I used to drill the French Cleat to the top of the cabinet - stainless steel should be used. Never dry wall screws in this type of situation. They do not have the sheer strength of stainless and could fail. |
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| The cleat was glued and clamped and then screwed in place. |
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| Here it is mounted on my "French Cleat" wall system. I only have the one cleat at the top of the cabinet. I used the same stainless screws to fixe the cleats to the studs in the wall. The opening is on the right side. I just need to make a few adjustable shelves, paint it to finish up. Now to figure out what else I need to put on this wall. |
