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Old 02-02-2014, 01:25 PM   #21
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I took a non-permanent approach and used two wire rolling carts (wheels removed) to create shelf space in my closet. The narrower cart (with its bottom shelf removed) sits on a piece of plexiglass (left over from redoing the fridge door) on the bottom cart's top shelf. The plexiglass prevents the legs from falling through the spaces, and helps me see what's sitting in the back of the bottom cart's shelves. Carts are readily available at discount and big box building supply stores.

I also zip-tied a length of PVC pipe (another leftover from making kayak dollies) to the bottom of the top shelf of the top cart. This gives me a small amount of space to hang my rain jacket. This floor-to-ceiling space can also hold awning poles, broom and other long/tall objects.

I've seen pics of people using PVC pipe to construct a framework that sits snugly in the closet, then plywood shelves placed on top. I thought that was pretty clever, with no need to drill holes in the fiberglass wall.

I do like the idea of cutting an access through the floor of the closet to get to the unused space below.
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Old 02-02-2014, 01:27 PM   #22
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I custom fit the shelf for a single location. Was not interested in having adjustable shelving.
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Old 02-02-2014, 01:49 PM   #23
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We just added a hanging shoe and a hanging sweater wardrobe over the clothes hanger bar. We mostly use them for clothes, shoes, and wine bottles. For heavier pantry items I built a floor storage just in front of the bump-up floor (you can see this if you click on our avitar and go to albums).
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Old 02-02-2014, 06:55 PM   #24
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I'm toying with the adjustable idea still. I'm considering mounting the tracks to the left and right side of the cabinet door. The tracks would be on the front. This is backwards as usually the track is mounted on the rear wall (in a traditional home closet). The advantage is that it gets around the "curved shape" issue. Can anyone see any disadvantage to doing this? I do plan to reinforce the fiberglass with wood.

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PS. I considered the side mounting but then you have to work around the brackets as the brackets will partially block the shelf.
PPS. Which tracks? See home depot link in a previous post on this thread.
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Old 02-03-2014, 05:35 PM   #25
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Has anyone come up with a way to install shelves that can be pulled out? Wire shelfs seem to be the most handy if you want to see what's on the shelves.
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Has anyone come up with a way to install shelves that can be pulled out? Wire shelfs seem to be the most handy if you want to see what's on the shelves.
In our Uhaul the closet door opening is narrower than the closet interior width, so to make pull out shelves would cause wasted space. Camping World does sell a shelf on slides, expensive at $40 plus. I did install one in the space where the furnace was.
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Old 02-03-2014, 08:04 PM   #27
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I put in adjustable wire shelves full width. Was very happy I made them adjustable as over time I have adjusted them a few times as I changed the storage location of several items to come up with a system that works best for me.

Pull outs would be great but I personally wouldn't put them in as I think you would loose a great deal of storage space to allow the slides to work.
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