12 Simple Storage Shelving Ideas For Small Spaces

Shelves are a great storage solution, but sometimes you don’t have enough available. Fortunately, you can DIY storage shelves for any room!

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Heavy-Duty Utility Shelves

Store-bought shelving units are either flimsy, hard to assemble or awfully expensive. Here’s a better solution. These shelves are strong and easy to build.

We sized this sturdy shelf unit to hold standard records storage boxes ($4 each). If you want deeper storage, build the shelves 24 inches deep and buy 24-inch-deep boxes. If you prefer to use plastic storage bins, measure the size of the containers and modify the box shelf and upright spacing to fit.

Refer to the dimensions shown to mark the location of the horizontal 2×2 on the back of four 2x4s. Also mark the position of the 2×4 uprights on the 2x2s. Then simply line up the marks and screw the 2x2s to the 2x4s with pairs of 2-1/2-in. wood screws. Be sure to keep the 2x2s and 2x4s at right angles.

Rip a 4 x 8-ft. sheet of 1/2-in. medium-density fibreboard (MDF), plywood or oriented strand board (OSB) into 16-in.-wide strips and screw it to the 2x2s to connect the two frames and form the shelving unit.