I came to your site looking for plans like this and poof there they were, right when I needed them. My closets in the house require  some serious decluttering and these shelves are just perfect. The same thing happened with another plan, the plan came out the very day I needed it.  Love the new site btw.

WOW Ana!!! I am so excited about these plans that I had a dream about them last night.  My garage is desparate for organization with all the things I'm building from your site and here you are offering me an alternative to the stacks and stacks of stuff piling up in the garage.  It will be a duanting task to clean it up, but these plans have me more motivated than ever.  I'm going to build an entire wall on one side which of course I will have to determine the full board length and a smallerish one on the other so I will have wall-to-wall shelving for all my many items.  Also a good excuse to throw out stuff that's been there for years.

Excited to start!

All that storage for $170 is a steal!

Hi, new to all of this. How did you securely attach the selves to the wall? 

I've been refurbishing my home and have one room that I've kept my tools and materials in. That will be the last room to be done. It was a mess! These shelves are perfect! They're temporary for this room, but once I build my small shed, they'll be resized for that. This was easy peezy! Fast too! My son helped me and didn't think we could get it done by the time he had to leave. Ha! 3 hours, 2 shelving units. One is 5 feet long and the other 7. Did I mention it only took us 3 hours?!

Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I built some shelves from these plans. We had to make due with what we had so we used rescued lumber. I look forward to making another set. 

This was an easy project that just me and my 14 year old were able to complete in one afternoon. The plans were easy to follow and it was a great bonding time for us as well. Thank you for the plans. 

I have been living in my new home for the last 13 months and I still had a big mess in my garage from the move (can any one relate to this?). So it was time to put some plan into action to organize it before I was kicked out of the house ;-) and looking around for simple but sturdy solutions to build I stumbled upon this website and its wonderful array of plans for all skill levels so I went ahead bought the wood and started building and I couldn't be any happier with the results I got. Thanks Ana for taking the time to creating and maintaining this website for all of us newbie woodworkers and also big thanks to the community for their participation!

Ana, I know from reading some of your other plans that you're a big fan of the Kreg jig and pocket hole screws (as am I).  Is there a reason you decided NOT to use them here?

Just a guess, but probably because this is a utilitarian design and the looks don't matter much. The main benefit of pocket holes is to hide joints so that furniture looks more polished and "professional", but that's not really a concern here.

i made similar one in my garage, i used osb board for shelving

I can't wait to get started on this project and clean up all the junk in the garage. Thank you so much for the video and plans.

I can't wait to build about 4 sets of these things! I just need to figure out how to get 20' long boards home from Home Depot in my Minivan!

It seems my basement floor is a bit uneven, I'm assuming to allow for draining purposes.. How would you adjust these shelves to account for that?

Just the plans I was looking. Made such an approvement to my garage

I made these shelves for the top of my work bench to keep from going insane,,,,they are 57" tall with shelves every 14", 8 feet long and 16" deep. I had to loose 2-18" deep shelves to accomodate my drill press.

So I never built anything like this before and you made it look so easy so I went out and got the wood.. I had all the tools except a table saw instead I used two donkeys and laid the board on top to cut with the circular saw. My garage is weird, I have a door and I could only got 15 feet and 6 inches so I got the 10 foot wood and the 16 foot wood and well it looks pretty good thanks for the amazing plans next thing i plan to make is shelfs for the pantry area in the house I hope you have plans for those.

How did you attach them to the walls?  Is this something I should consider when I'm building the shelves?  Maybe attach a 2x4 to the backside of the 2nd to top shelf at a 90 degree angle so it can be screwed into the wall studs?

How did you attach your shelves to the wall?

Should I attach another 2x4 to the wall side of the 2nd shelf down at a 90 degree angle on each end of the unit so I can attach the unit to the wall studs>

I just downloaded the plans for this shelving project. One thing I have noticed in most, if not all, garages is the floors are sloped either toward the middle where there is a floor drain, or they are sloped downwards toward the over head door. You make no mention of this or how to measure and cut for the slopes. If compensation isn't made for those slopes then the shelving unit will not look level, because they will not be level. Do you have advice on that?

Can anyone provide me the actual depth once the shelf is completed INCLUDING where the 2x4 leg supports jut out? I only have 17.5" to work with (we have a small one car garage). I know 2x4's don't equate to exactly 2x4, so I'm seeing if I need to modify these plans or not. I need as much of that 17.5" as I can get!

Thanks in advance.

Can someone please tell me what size bins work best with the plans as they are presented? The totes look big and don't waste space.

Last week I took this project and came up really good.

Your plans rock, as they show materials list and cut list

One issue with this design is that the weight of the shelves is completely supported by the screws of the uprights. To solve this just double up the upright 2x4s by adding another behind to go between the shelves. One to support the first shelf from the floor. Another to support the second shelf from the first. Etc.

Would an 8' span require a middle leg support or would one on each end be enough?

Maybe I’m missing it, but is there a way to print off the instructions and materials list? I have a really hard time doing projects like this on the phone with the ads popping up and the need to scroll. Is there a way to find a pdf version?  I really wanna try to build this  :) 

Thanks Ana for posting this project.

This was my first project and I spent less than $180 to get this done.

It was very easy.

Thank you!!

Thanks for sharing. I'm about to tackle this next week but I was wondering, can I substitute the 2x4s of the shelving for 2x8? I would maintain the leg supports exactly as you use in this plan.

Thanks!

I have made several of these for my garage. Two of them are exactly these dimensions for the sides of the garage, but in the back of one side, i made a set that were double deep to allow for the Christmas boxes and more stuff. It worked like a champ. Also, on one set of shelves, where I knew there would be greater load, I put scrap pieces of 2x4 underneath each of the support ladder joints with glue and screws.

This is so informative!