How To Change Wire Shelving With DIY Wooden Cabinets | Thrifty Decor Chick

Easy methods to exchange wire linen closet shelving with sturdy wooden cabinets. 

This messy linen closet has been a thorn in my facet for YEARS! I lastly eliminated the wire cabinets and changed them with wooden on this closet makeover. 

Our upstairs linen closet is the place we preserve most of our linens for the home, since we use our downstairs linen closet for extras like paper towels, kitchen towels, rest room paper, and so forth. 

Sure, we’re so fortunate to have tons of storage in our home! It simply would not all the time operate how we want! 🙂 

So let’s lastly repair that. I detest wire cabinets…however we went as cheap as doable in these closets once we constructed. I knew I may exchange the shelving for cheaper. 

I simply thought I’d get it accomplished ahead of virtually seven years later. 😂

Here is the mess we had been coping with: 

More often than not I saved it considerably underneath management, however over the previous six months or so we sort of gave up and simply began stuffing issues in there and shoving the door shut.

Stuffing the pillows in between the door and cabinets good is a particular expertise. 

First, I eliminated the entire linens and pillows, then set to work eradicating the wire cabinets: 

Colby helped, as standard. 

If you happen to attempt to take away these brackets with out taking the pin out first, you may create BIG holes to fill. The holes from these anchors are unhealthy sufficient, however that might create much more injury. 

I am further and thought it could be a fairly accent, so I coated the again wall of the closet:

Is that this half vital? No. Will I see most of it when the closet is full? Nope. Is it fairly and can it make me pleased once I put our sheets and blankets away? YES. 🙂

Subsequent up, I wanted to put in the helps for the wooden cabinets. I like utilizing this small window and door trim as a result of it would not make every shelf too thick ultimately: 

They’re small, however have held up nicely on all of my bookcase and shelf builds. 

One factor to think about although — you have to take some care throughout set up or the screws will break up the wooden. 

I first set up the helps with a nail gun to get them the place I need them, then use a small drill bit to drill by means of the wooden on the studs: 

You are not even imagined to must pre-drill with these screws, however I nonetheless do.

When in search of studs, you possibly can all the time discover them on the corners, so I all the time add a pair screws there: 

I positioned the brand new cabinets on the identical spots because the outdated ones, so I did not must fill lots of the holes from the wire shelving anchors with the brand new helps and shelving.

Be certain to test for stage as you are putting in your whole shelf helps: 

Here is what I ended up with when the helps had been all put in:  

Trying again, this may be the perfect time to fill the screw/nail holes and paint these helps. I will must preserve that in thoughts for subsequent time. 😉 Do not be like me and set up your wooden cabinets on high first. 

One concern I all the time observed once we would put our blankets and linens on the wire cabinets was that they had been all the time a bit too brief. All the things was all the time hanging off the entrance. 

So I prolonged the depth of the cabinets only a bit, from round 16 inches to 22 (together with the trim I added to the entrance):

I did not fill and paint beneath ALL of the cabinets — solely those you might simply see:

If somebody will get down on the bottom and sees the unpainted elements underneath the decrease cabinets…nicely that is their drawback. Ha!

I had my wooden cabinets reduce down at Lowe’s and painted them earlier than putting in. I positioned them on high of the wooden helps and nailed in (with my nail gun) by means of the highest to safe them. 

As a result of they weren’t completely good, I had a whole lot of caulking to do alongside the edges (I did not fill alongside the again of the cabinets). 

After all of it dried I used to be capable of fill the cabinets once more. Here is a have a look at this beautiful linen closet with the brand new shelving and particulars!: 

The deeper cabinets permit for extra room as a result of I can retailer the bedding operating entrance to again, which provides me method extra usable house. 

I decluttered the throw pillows, and saved the remaining in our visitor room closet. However in any other case the comforters, blankets and sheets are all nonetheless there. 

I used these lidded storage bins (from HomeGoods) for our euro and throw pillow covers: 

They work nice! Now we are able to see the gorgeous new closet at evening: 

Now I am unable to wait to deal with our different linen closet and provides it the identical remedy. 

I am unable to TELL you the way a lot a venture like this soothes my soul. I saved opening the closet for no cause after I completed it up, simply to take a look at it. 😃

The areas we dwell in actually do have an effect on our temper and nicely being!