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OK...so Tony didn't love making this broom closet. He said it would have been much easier in a shop but he did a great job.
Here's the opening for the space. It's approximately 9-1/2" of dead space. Well...we cannot have dead spacein my kitchen. Plus, it was bugging me that I wasn't going to have a broom and dustpan somewhere close to where most of the messes would be made.
Using plywood, Tony constructed a box that fits in the space. A box with no floor. It basically went along the side of the fridge, along the top at approximately the same height as the fridge and then along the wall.
Then he constructed the box for the pull-out. That box was a rectangular cube with one side open like this. The yellow shaded area represents the open part. This box was also made out of plywood.
He cut a tall cover panel (88", in our case) to make the front of the closet. He also cut down cover panels (and toe kicks) to go along the top of the box and along the bottom. He also reinforced the box by placing more plywood cross-wise along the short section of the box at the top and bottom. He attached the peg board to the plywood box.
He ended up having to use heavy duty drawer slides along the bottom and top of the box because it's pretty heavy.
The closed closet. He was originally planning on having the closet lie flush with the wall but the wall was very wavy. He ended up cutting some more off the cover panel to make a small return for the box. It covers the wavy wall and finishes off the box.
It's certainly not pretty when it's open and when I get a chance, I'll prime and paint theplywood so it looks better but it sure is functional!
wow! wicked awesome. I want one. It finishes off that space perfectly.I love the peg board idea. You are a brilliant blogger, documenting each step for us. Thanks!
WOW! It looks GREAT! I can't wait to show
DH
what you did... we're working on ours this weekend. Thank you for sharing the pictures and details and tell Tony he did good!
Stacy
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You know, Tony's starting to get a little fan club here
LOL
You should mention that to him...he'll probably do all sorts of fantastic carpentry things for you!
I Love it .. wish I had spare space to use for a pullout broom closet!!! Very cool... and looks like Tony did a great job of creating that .... I want to hire Tony... does he want to come to california and do some work for me ???
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Weee....I don't think Tony wants to see another Ikea kitchen for as long as he lives This week as been particularly rough for him with things going wrong at every turn.
He's coming tomorrow to finish up work and he wanted to know if it would be alright to have his wife come by to take a look at the kitchen -
LOL
. Brian just sympathized with him...
I WANT ONE!!! Really nice job. I'm definitely getting one of those in my laundry room (now I just have to inform
dh
). It looks really good surrounding the frig.
Laurie
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This week as been particularly rough for him with things going wrong at every turn.
I WANT ONE!!! Really nice job. I'm definitely getting one of those in my laundry room (now I just have to inform
