
There is no such thing as having too many shoes, especially if you have really good storage possibilities. The advantage to building your own Electric Shoes Cabinet is obvious: you have complete control over the look and the size of the final unit. In fact, you can create cabinets for every place in the house where people leave shoes, like inside the foyer and the entrance from the garage. Don’t forget to leave room for next season’s additions.
1 Measure the space for your shoes. An unused nook next to your front door or right inside a large closet works well. Measure the width of the space, and plan to have the cabinet stop at about waist-height. This should hold a lot of shoes.
2 Draw a rectangle matching your measurements onto your particle board with a pencil and a carpenter’s square.
3 Cut the rectangle out with your electric handsaw. Bring the saw through the board slowly, and keep your fingers out of the way of the blade.
4 Count how many shoes you plan to store, and line them up to see how many you can fit across the width of your board. In 2 feet of space, you may be able to fit about four pairs of shoes. If you have 20 pairs of shoes to store, you’ll need five shelves in your Mobile Cabinet.
5 Cut one 2-inch wide board and one 4-inch board for each of your shoe shelves. The boards should be 2 feet, 11 inches long, in this case.
6 Run a bead of liquid nails across the edge of your 2-inch board. Press it into your board about 2 inches from the top of the board. Glue a 4-inch board about 2 inches below that.
7 Glue another set of boards about 3 inches below the first set. Continue this way until all of your boards are glued on the board’s rectangle. Let the glue dry overnight.
8 Measure the length of the longest shoe you plan to store. Men’s shoes are usually longer than women’s; if you have men in the house, measure their shoes. A safe length in most cases is around 12 inches.
9 Draw and cut two rectangles that are 2 feet long and 12 inches wide, in this example, for the top and bottom of the cabinet. For the sides, cut two rectangles 12 inches wide and 2 feet, 11 inches long.
10 Run a bead of liquid nails along the edge of one of your 2-foot boards. Press the board into the top edge of your board backing. Repeat with a 2-foot, 11-inch board, and glue it into the left side of the backing and the left edge of the top board. Glue in the bottom of the cabinet and the right side the same way. Let the liquid nails dry overnight.
11 Slide the toes of each pair of shoes between the sets of 2-inch and 4-inch wide shelves inside the cabinet. You’ll be able to see all of your shoes and grab them with ease.
The article comes from File Cabinet.
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