adding closet shelves

Peg board is a good idea. Hadn't thought of that when I made mine!

I used peg board. No drilling holes at all.

Cut the two sides and put them against each side wall.

Cut two shelves and use the peg board clips.

The shelves fit tight and hold the sides against the wall.

(I only cut the side boards as high as the top shelf I needed)

Use 1" x1" cleats glued and screwed with short screws into the closet walls. Or, if your closet walls are paper thin, just use glue and tape the cleats in place until the glue hardens. An alternative, if your closet walls are 1/2" thick or greater, is to use shelf pins. You should use a drill stop so the holes you drill for the shelf pins do not become a through hole in the closet walls. Shelf pins will be the cheapest way to support the shelves.

Prodacy, how did you attach the shelves?

We added wire shelves like Dutchman did, but turned them upside down so that each one has a lip to keep things from sliding off.

Along with the frame idea how about building what amounts to a book case with legs that transfer the weight to the bottom of the closet. It should be easy to attach it to a vertical surface in a couple of spots to avoid it tipping over.

thanks for all the ideas! I really wanted to go with the command hooks, since that plus wire shelves i could do on my own. but they are sooo expensive, and need close to 30...

In our previous camper, I added several shelves. I used the wire version from Lowe's, I cut the wire to the right length with a bolt cutter. Easy to do. When we sold the camper, I left them all there.














In my current camper, we are using self-standing wire shelves now, they stack on top of each other, so no drilling holes. Sorry, no photos of those.

This is how I added shelves to our closets. Posting from my phone so hopefully the link will work!

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/26746238/gotomsg/27855234.cfm#27855234

Anytime you hang a shelf, that will have to support some weight, you need to be concerns about the "meat" of the support wood. There's not much of that in our Class C. Your's may differ.

But here are some suggestions:
- build a frame. That's what I did for the shelves that sit next to the pantry in our wardrobe. There should be a post with pictures called "Pantry" in the Class C forum.
- rip some wood down to 1x1" and attach it to the sides/rear of the compartment. Glue and screws. This will create a bracket for your (now unadjustable) shelf to sit on