How to Build Cubical-Type Storage Shelves

Cubical-type storage offers versatile and attractive organization, due to the storage unit's ability to work as a standard shelf, hold removable baskets or be customized to a variety of designs. These units are perfect for children's rooms, living rooms or laundry rooms. Because there is no back on the units, they can be used as room dividers of any size, accessed from the front or the back, and still allow vision through the shelving, provided the shelving has not been filled with objects.

4 boards, 1/2-by-12-by-24-inch
2 boards, 1/2-by-12-by-36-inch
Drill
Drill bits
Wood screws, 2-inch
3 boards, 1/2-by-11 1/3-by-12-inch
Pegs

Instructions

- 1
  Set two 1/2-by-12-by-24-inch boards upright on their small ends, parallel to each other. Hold these side boards in place with another person, and set a 1/2-by-12-by-36-inch top board across them. Adjust the alignment so the edges of the boards line up evenly, and drill four holes down through the top board into each side board.
- 2
  Put 2-inch wood screws in those holes and completely fasten the boards together by tightening those screws with a drill. Repeat the process for another 1/2-by-12-by-36-inch board on the bottom of the unit.
- 3
  Stand the unit on its side so that an open rectangle is facing upward. Position two 1/2-by-12-by-24-inch vertical support boards evenly within the frame, parallel to the side boards. Drill two holes through the top and bottom boards of the frame and into each end of the vertical support boards. Attach the boards to the frame with 2-inch wood screws.
- 4
  Stand the unit upright. Insert 1/2-by-11 1/3-by-12-inch shelf boards into positions within the frame. Mark their locations on the side boards and the vertical support boards. Drill two holes into the side boards and support boards at these markings and put pegs in the holes. Set the shelves on top of the pegs.

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