Wire Shelving

Wire shelving is a great way to organize your home or work environment. You'll often see it in restaurants as it provides strong, industrial looking storage. Wherever it is, wire shelving provides an opportunity to neatly and conveniently stow away anything from tools and towels to food items and cookware, hobby and craft materials, and even toys and athletic equipment. Additional uses include: bulk purchases, clothing, shoes, books and papers, and many other items that you just need stowed away. Wire shelving in homes is most popularly employed in closets.

Ready to Assemble Wire Shelving

While you can buy ready-to-assemble wire shelving kits for your home closets, you can easily build one from scratch if you have intermediate home improvement skills. In a few hours, you can have a closet customized to your specifications. You can provide for ample clothing, shoe and accessory storage. Besides the materials, the only tools you need are a tape measure, drill/driver and drill bits, bolt cutters or a hacksaw, a hammer, a level, and a pencil.

Prepackaged kits are good options for those not inclined to be so handy. They can also be rather economical. Kits usually include everything you might need for a five to eight foot wide closet. Extra components and shelving can also be purchased. Adjustable height rods and shelves can expand your options. You can easily move these around as your storage needs change. Installation with ready-to-assemble kits usually requires no more than a drill, screwdriver and hammer.

How to Purchase Wire Shelving

Whether or not you decide to build your own wire shelving, it's important to figure out just exactly what your storage needs are. While you're at it, you might as well get rid of a few things you no longer have use for and don't need to factor into your planning stage.

Planning and measuring in detail the space where you'd like wire shelving is crucial. Decide how much and what kind of space you need. Figure out a layout and take measurements. Graph paper and a pencil will come in handy. Shelving will probably include some space for rods in addition to traditional shelving. Some wire shelf kits have continuous sliding rods included.

Wire Shelving Accessories

Accessories for wire shelving include support poles. These should be used instead of braces when you've got stacks of three or more shelves. These poles should be placed every three inches along your shelving. Shoe shelves can be made easily by just turning a shelf piece upside down. Corners for shelving can also be built. Drawers and baskets can be purchased or made easily.

By Aadika Singh