Closet Rollout

This is a piece I’m building to make use of a deep, narrow closet. The closet is six feet deep and only two feet wide. It has a hanger bar running from the front to back, but the customer wants to be able to use it to store more than just hanging clothes. Simply stacking boxes in the closet is impractical, as the only way to get to boxes in the back would be to empty the closet. The solution is this rollout, which allows the entire stack of boxes to be pulled out of the closet at once.

 The rollout is designed around a set of 1’x1’x8” storage boxes the customer has. The boxes sit on 2x3s and are kept aligned by a frame made of 1x2s. It rolls on 2” casters attached to its underside. A pull bar about a foot from the top allows the rollout to be easily maneuvered.

Materials and labor - which includes accessing the problem, coming up with a solution, designing the piece, building the rollout, and assembling it at the customer’s home – comes to $150.

[Rollout was designed using Google Sketchup]


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Update 02/23/11

Some pictures of the finished rollout in front of the closet it was designed for.