Creating a DIY broom closet: a practical guide

Create a DIY broom closet: if you are tired of seeing around the house everything you need for cleaning floors, including rags, brooms, various cleaning solutions and attached dust, then the right time has come to create a DIY broom closet. Find out with us, step by step, how to make your own.

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Self you need extra space to store your brooms and do not keep them around the house making it always look dirty and messy, we at Pianeta Design have a nice project suitable for you. Put the dust at the door: you just a few tools, the right material and lots of manual skills: are you ready to find out more?

If you are fascinated by the idea of having one space dedicated to cleaning products, don’t waste any more time: grab a pen and paper and start taking notes. Another nice one DIY project waiting for you!

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First of all, let’s take the measurements

First, before starting, we must have the project in mind to carry on, how we have the idea of making it and the space it will occupy.

How to get the right measures? Starting right from your broom: how much measure? Add a few more inches in height and you will get the base to start from. Now let’s see what you need to proceed.

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2. What tools do you need?

A decisive step for the success of your project is linked to preparation of the toolbox: what to put in it? Let’s see it together:

a meter
there nailer
some screws
different nails
a glue
there sand paper
a drill
a sander
some hooks
4 hinges

Now that everything is ready, let’s move on to the practical part and more creative: the realization real. You are ready?

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Creating a DIY broom closet: step by step

To make your own broom locker a few days of work will be enough, even just a weekend, for an amazing result to say the least. Let’s get to work right away. First we have chosen wood as a material to be used in our project and this, for its resistance and versatility. Pine, walnut, maple or even teak if you think of an outdoor installation: you choose! Anyhow they will need:

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1 plywood of 8/10 cm for the rear
1 plywood of about 15 cm for the rest sides.

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Let’s proceed with i cuts:

for the upper part: 160 x 67 cm
for each side: 160 cm
cut it the doors
make the holes
set the internal stops

Once this is done we begin create the box that will contain the brooms, our allies in daily cleaning! How to proceed? Wear the right protection, gloves and protective goggles, then jigsaw to the hand we begin to to cut according to the measures indicated and ad screw putting together a kind of box made of plywood.

Once you have completed it, you will move on to doors to be screwed with hinges to the rest of the structure. Et voilà the bulk is done: let’s move on to the finishes!

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A matter of details: the finishing touches

Smooth the structure well that you just made with the help of sandpaper or, if you prefer to speed up times, with a manual sander: it is a necessary operation to have one good base on which to apply the paint. At this point you will have need a brush and a can of paint: choose the one that best suits your style needs and make sure you don’t neglect any area!

What do you think of customize the doors with cute stencils?

Regarding the handlesfinally choose them carefully and attention so that they can be as functional as possible but that aesthetically complete your useful wardrobe. The ideal is a handle with an essential design and ergonomic with an extra touch of color!

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And where do I put the wardrobe?

Once the work is complete, all that remains is to bring your creation into the house and decide where to place themto. Which is the most suitable place? Do you have a forgotten corner? It would be perfect for this! In kitchen, corridor or entrance given the size you can place it really anywhere: an interesting and very popular proposal is that of put your broom closet behind the door. Let’s try?

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What are the costs to be faced

To give you an idea of the cost to face and assuming that you already have all the right tools, you will only need the wooden plywood the right size. What is the market price? We tell you right away by pointing out that depending on the material there will be a variation of price. It starts from 5-6 euros up to 24-25 euros, per square meter means, for panels of greater thickness.

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Create a DIY broom closet: pictures and photos

If reading our article has inspired you, don’t waste any more time and run to get your broom. Start making your wardrobe project around it for brooms, vacuum cleaners, rags and so on and so forth. But not before having taken a last look at the gallery of images that follows: we have collected many other ideas for you to copy!