Easy Modern DIY Shelf:
If you have a small bathroom like us it’s hard to find room for storage. Build your own modern bathroom towel shelf with these easy woodworking plans and organize your bathroom! After installing the shelf we decided to add hooks on the bottom to hang towels for even more storage.
Tools:
Circular Saw (With Diablo fine finsh blade)
Miter Saw
Orbital Sander
Kreg Pocket Hole Jig
Drill
Clamps
Glue
Nail Gun
Polyurethane Spray
Stud Finder
Materials:
Wood: For this project we picked up some really cool 3/4″ wormy maple on marketplace for $30. You can also use pine, maple or any wood of your choice from you local hardware store
Hooks: https://www.homedepot.com/p/OOK-2-1-4-in-White-Vinyl-Cup-Hook-10-Pack-534267/301942174
Dimensions:
The shelf was designed to fit 4 folded towels on the lower shelf. To get the perfect size we folded our towels and used the measurements to design the shelf.
Cut List:
Side Pieces 2x: 8.5″ x 7″
Top + Bottom Pieces 2x: 32″ x 7″
The trusty Dewalt circular saw was use rip the board to 7in and the boards were cut to length with a miter saw.
Assembly:
The nice part about the wormy maple was that it allowed us to hide brad nails to hold the shelf together. We glued the edges, clamped the shelf together, and added a brad nail at each corner. After the glue dried we used spray-on clear polyurathane to protect the shelf since it would be in the bathroom and exposed to a decent amount of moisture. To fasten the shelf to the wall we decided to use pocket hole screws on the top and bottom of the shelf since the top of the shelf is too high for most people to see and the bottom too low.
Installation:
Since the top and bottom of the shelf was mainly hidden from view we opted to go the easy route and mount the shelf with pocket holes on the top and bottom of the shelf. We held the shelf up where we wanted it to go and used a stud finder to find the studs and mark their locations on the top and board. The Kreg Pocket Hole Jig was used to create pocket holes which we used to screw the shelf into the wall with 3″ screws. We fastened one of the sides of the shelf first and used a level to make sure the self war level then used the remaing 3 pocket holes to fasten the shelf securly to the wall. You can’t even tell that there are pocket holes in the shelf! You can always use pocket hole plugs if you are able to see the holes on your shelf.
After we installed the shelf we decided to add hooks to the bottom so we could hang towels. We ended up adding 4 hooks.
