The Walk-In Closet Island Build Is Underway!

Right here’s what I’ve been anxious to see for some time now. That is the dimensions 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, lower to twenty-eight″ x 70.5″, and to that piece, I nailed after which screwed on the facet items, that are 30″ excessive and 28″ broad.

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

I don’t know why I made a decision to do it this fashion, however I nailed after which screwed the facet items into the sting of the underside piece. In hindsight, I want I had made the facet 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 facet items have been on high of the underside piece. Both manner 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 break up the wooden.

I repeated that on the opposite facet after which added the middle divider. This piece was lower 3/4″ shorter than the facet items because it was connected 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 via 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 provide just a little extra depth to the wooden in these areas the place the toes can be connected, and likewise give me one thing to connect backside trim to. I connected 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 facet as a result of I wished to make sure it was lined up completely with the sting of the plywood backside, after which I connected 1×3 items to every facet to finish that body. I didn’t want these facet items to connect the toes, however once more, the underside trim will go all the best way 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″ broad, from Lowe’s), I drilled holes for the threaded bolts on the toes. I didn’t hassle shopping for these metallic plates that the bolts screw into as a result of that might have simply added extra top to the toes that I’d must subtract from the drawer space, and I wish 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 mission 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 facet, 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 facet.

That’s so far as I acquired, however it was far sufficient for me to face the island carcass upright and get an concept of what it was going to appear to be within the middle of the room.

I feel it’s going to be nice! The dimensions is ideal. It’s sufficiently big to have eight drawers on the hanging garments facet of the room, and 4 drawers and two cupboard doorways on the equipment facet of the room. Every drawer and cupboard part will likely be about 34 inches broad.

And that leaves me 36 inches of ground house on all sides of the island.

That is the facet that may have eight drawers. I nonetheless must work out the precise top of every drawer. That’ll be a “determine it out as I am going alongside” form of factor.

Nevertheless it’ll look one thing like this…

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

After which this facet will the one with the 4 drawers on the left and cupboard doorways on the suitable.

So it’ll appear to be this…

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

I want I had began on this earlier within the day in order that I might have gotten additional alongside on the mission, however no less than I acquired it to the purpose the place I might really visualize the dimensions of the island within the closet. Hopefully I could make a complete 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.

Facet observe: I apologize to all of you neat freaks who’re in all probability feeling an unbelievable quantity of tension taking a look at these photos of me engaged on this mission earlier than cleansing up my messes from earlier initiatives. 😂 Typically I neglect that not everybody’s work course of is like mine, the place I can simply shove all the things to the facet and bounce into one thing new. And I promise you that my ground is okay. I’ll attempt to take a while this weekend and get issues cleaned up so all of you organized individuals don’t must really feel anxious wanting on the progress photos on Monday. 😀