If your house has niches in the premises, then it would be right to arrange a closet in them with your own hands in order to save usable space. Of course, this activity is quite laborious, but real. Since the niche often has non-standard sizes, it will not work just to buy a cabinet in a furniture store. The built-in wardrobe provides for its location in height from the floor to the ceiling itself, but the width will be determined by the width of the niche. Do-it-yourself wardrobe here will be smart and efficient.
So, let's go directly to the question of how to make a built-in wardrobe. First of all, you need to measure the dimensions of your niche (height, width, depth). Please note that dimensions must be taken with maximum accuracy.
The next important point is the design and manufacture of drawings. In fact, the internal content of this type of furniture depends only on your personal desires, but I want to say that your future closet should be both a place for storing outerwear and have shelves for storing it.
To make drawings, you can use specially created software for this, or you can do it manually by drawing your future furniture on a piece of paper. But it should be noted that the shelves of the cabinet are reduced in depth by a distance that is equal to the width of the upper guide of the sliding system. As a rule, this is 90 mm. The advantage of the software is that you instantly get not only all the necessary dimensions of the parts, but also the fact that the program will show you where and how to fasten the parts.
Next, we decide on the material for the cabinet. Usually for this they take laminated sheetschipboard, which have dimensions (2050 × 1830 × 16 mm). Sawing chipboard, and gluing edging material is best done at enterprises specializing in this type of work. You can, of course, cut chipboard and glue the edge yourself, but trust me, you will not be able to produce parts of the same quality as special machines for gluing and sawing material.
When creating a wardrobe with your own hands, you should not forget about the sliding system for it, which can also be ordered at these enterprises. When ordering, some nuances should be taken into account: the width of the sliding system will be the niche width minus 32 mm, where 32 is the total thickness of the right and left sidewalls of the manufactured furniture. If the cabinet does not have a top and bottom, then the height of the sliding system will be equal to the height of the niche, but if there is both a "bottom" and a "ceiling", then it is necessary to subtract 32 mm from the height again.
After receiving all the necessary parts, you can begin to assemble the cabinet. First of all, with the help of confirmations, we connect the bottom, roof and sidewalls of our structure. The role of the bottom and roof can be played by the top and bottom shelves of the cabinet. This is provided that you have a sliding system attached to the floor and ceiling. To make holes for confirmations, you will need a special drill, which can be purchased at any hardware store. After assembling the case, install it in a niche. Next, we fix the shelves in our design. You can do this in several ways: using shelf holders or metal (plastic) corners. The end result of your work will be the installation of a sliding system. To do this, we fix the upper and lower guides and insert the compartment doors into them.
That's all, the cabinet is made and installed by hand - and this does not require much time and money.
