Cover Wire Shelves With Wood

Wire shelving makes me want to scream.

Cover wire shelves with wood. Measure cut and sand the first step to making the wood covers for wire shelving is to measure your shelf. Select pine board 1 inch x 4 inch x 6 ft. I just completed an 85 laundry room makeover. Glue together after sanding i wiped down both pieces with a clean rag.

Our hardwood shelf liners are the perfect addition to our wire kitchen carts to create additional counter space and the pvc liners allow you balance heavier or more unusually shaped items without having to worry about the gaps in the wires on your shelves. 3 4 inch x 3 1 2 inch these are for the facing of the. You can make a wood overlay to cover wire shelving. Either 1x4 whitewood boards or 1x6x8 fence pickets you ll need enough to cover the entire length of your wire shelves.

In my heart i knew. It wasn t the real thing. Tool and materials you will need plywood sheathing 1 4 inch x 4 ft x 8 ft. It just wasn t enough.

Then i ran a line of wood glue along. In the past we have made wood overlays to cover the wire shelving in both our laundry room and our front coat closet. Instead of putting up with it we made a wood overlay to cover the wire shelving in our laundry room. Available in translucent polypropylene colored pvc acrylic or even hardwood.

Creating the look of a chunky wood shelf for only 20. I really wanted to switch those bad boy wire shelves out for some custom looking solid wood shelves. And then marking on the wall where the new shelves will go. We started by taking out all the old wire shelving which i plan to donate.

With my brother in law s help to construct the shelf covers i just added these wood covers to five shelves in my pantry and laundry room. Things don t sit quite right and everything falls through the cracks plus it doesn t look great. I painted mine with primer and two coats of semi gloss paint to match the painted cabinets in my house. Such a huge improvement at a very low cost.

I used mostly screws we had left over from other projects all around 3 4 inches something like these that are. Wood glue staple gun. The number of sheets needed will depend on the number of shelves you will be. Paint or stain of your choice you ll also need a drill.

In the residential and commercial world of remodeling we are constantly getting requests from people to tear out wire shelving and replace it with custom wood shelves just like the old days. Anyone else hate wire shelving. And the overlay simply sits on top of the original wire shelf. Things are always falling through the cracks and tipping over on the uneven surface.