tips for walk in wardrobe and shoe storage

[hamster88]

Hi I'm new to the forum and Im looking for general suggestions for building walk in wardrobe shelves and a shoe storage bench .

Our walk in wardrobe shelving rail area will be a L shaped section. Should I just baton the wall and put mdf on top. Will this support the rail with heavy clothes on ? I want to give it a more floating shelf sort of look and not a wardrobe in a room look.

I have bought a kreg jig to make joins for the shoe storage bench. Will this be good enough ?

thanks

 

[MatthewRedStars]

Yep, I'd make an nice thick (40mm?) MDF box shelf with a groove at the rear and sides... and push this onto battens screwed to the wall.

Will be bulletproof.

 

[custard]

Our walk in wardrobe shelving rail area will be a L shaped section.

Do you mean that the shelves will only be supported on two sides?

 

[hamster88]

Shelves are only going on 2 walls. i.e a L shape section. just havent figured out the layout and how to support yet.

 

[custard]

Support on two sides is tricky. I've made suspended shelves for kitchens and bathrooms which are supported on only one side, but you can make the shelf fairly shallow so that whatever's on it can't exert too much leverage, also I made them about 70mm thick so there's a huge torsion box section actually taking the load.

A wardrobe shelf or hanging rail on the other hand can get very heavily loaded indeed. I'd be wary about this design, sinking big metal pegs into the wall to carry the load might be secure, but it's likely to be expensive and complicated to install, personally I'd be thinking about incorporating a post at the unsupported corner to carry the weight. But then again, maybe I'm a wuss who likes to sleep at night knowing my designs are bomb proof!

Good luck!