The Stroll-In Closet Island Construct Is Underway!

Right here’s what I’ve been anxious to see for some time now. That is the scale of the island, and what it seems to be like within the room.

To construct this, I began with the lengthy piece for the underside, reduce to twenty-eight″ x 70.5″, and to that piece, I nailed after which screwed on the aspect items, that are 30″ excessive and 28″ vast.

Right here’s one other view of that, with the underside of the island in direction of the underside of the image.

I don’t know why I made a decision to do it this manner, however I nailed after which screwed the aspect items into the sting of the underside piece. In hindsight, I want I had made the aspect items 3/4″ shorter, and the underside piece 3/4″ wider on all sides, after which nailed and screwed the items collectively in order that the aspect items had been on high of the underside piece. Both means will work, although.

I nailed the items collectively first simply because it’s a lot simpler to carry them collectively and nail them to get them lined up, after which I adopted up with 1.5″ #8 Spax cupboard screws, which don’t require pre-drilling the holes and gained’t cut up the wooden.

I repeated that on the opposite aspect after which added the middle divider. This piece was reduce 3/4″ shorter than the aspect items because it was hooked up on high of the underside piece. I measured and marked the middle of the underside piece, lined up the plywood divider, and nailed it into place.

After which I adopted up with the Spax screws by means of the underside piece and into the sting of the middle divider to safe it.

And that was it with the essential field. Fairly easy!

Then I added a “body” utilizing 1×3’s across the backside. The aim for these items was to present just a little extra depth to the wooden in these areas the place the toes can be hooked up, and likewise give me one thing to connect backside trim to. I hooked up these items solely utilizing 1.25″ 16-gauge nails. There was no want to make use of screws for these items.

I flipped the piece over to connect the body to the opposite aspect as a result of I needed to make sure it was lined up completely with the sting of the plywood backside, after which I hooked up 1×3 items to every aspect to finish that body. I didn’t want these aspect items to connect the toes, however once more, the underside trim will go all the way in which across the island, and this offers me one thing to nail that trim to.

To connect the toes (turned wooden toes which are 4.5″ excessive and three.5″ vast, from Lowe’s), I drilled holes for the threaded bolts on the toes. I didn’t hassle shopping for these steel plates that the bolts screw into as a result of that may have simply added extra top to the toes that I’d should subtract from the drawer space, and I need to squeeze ever fraction of an inch I can out of the general 36-inch island top for the drawers. Plus, they’re simply not wanted on a undertaking like this. So after measuring and marking how far again the toes would want to go for the underside trim to not hit the toes, I drilled the holes for the furnishings toes bolts.

After which I used fairly a little bit of wooden glue on the highest of the furnishings toes…

And positioned the threaded bolts into the holes I had drilled. I did three toes on one aspect, gave it a little bit of time for that wooden glue to set, flipped the island over, and did the opposite three toes on the opposite aspect.

That’s so far as I bought, nevertheless it was far sufficient for me to face the island carcass upright and get an thought of what it was going to appear to be within the heart of the room.

I believe it’s going to be nice! The scale is ideal. It’s large enough to have eight drawers on the hanging garments aspect of the room, and 4 drawers and two cupboard doorways on the equipment aspect of the room. Every drawer and cupboard part might be about 34 inches vast.

And that leaves me 36 inches of flooring area on all sides of the island.

That is the aspect that can have eight drawers. I nonetheless have to work out the precise top of every drawer. That’ll be a “determine it out as I’m going alongside” sort of factor.

However it’ll look one thing like this…

Right here’s a large angle view of it from this aspect…

After which this aspect will the one with the 4 drawers on the left and cupboard doorways on the appropriate.

So it can appear to be this…

And right here’s a closing view trying from the washer/dryer space again in direction of the doorway to the closet.

I want I had began on this earlier within the day in order that I may have gotten additional alongside on the undertaking, however at the very least I bought it to the purpose the place I may truly visualize the scale of the island within the closet. Hopefully I could make an entire lot extra progress on this over the following two days! I hope to have much more island progress to share with y’all on Monday.

Aspect be aware: I apologize to all of you neat freaks who’re in all probability feeling an unbelievable quantity of hysteria taking a look at these footage of me engaged on this undertaking earlier than cleansing up my messes from earlier initiatives. 😂 Typically I overlook that not everybody’s work course of is like mine, the place I can simply shove every little thing to the aspect and leap into one thing new. And I promise you that my flooring is okay. I’ll attempt to take a while this weekend and get issues cleaned up so all of you organized individuals don’t should really feel anxious trying on the progress footage on Monday. 😀