Put a thin line of wood glue on the back of one of the cleats with holes in it, then clamp it into place on the piece of plywood you are using for one of your end pieces. Measure and mark the piece of plywood where your cleats will attach. As you drive the screw it easily spins through the first piece, then grabs the second piece of wood and pulls it tight to the first piece. This way the screw easily fits through the first piece of wood and the threads of the screw don’t “grab” anything until they hit the second piece of wood. TIP: When you’re attaching two pieces of wood together and you want the screw to pull the two pieces of wood super tight as you drive it, you want to pre-drill a hole in one piece of wood that is ever so slightly larger than your screws. Repeat for five additional 2x2s so that you have six cleats with holes in them. The exact spacing of the holes doesn’t matter, just make sure that you get three holes and that you drill the holes with a drill bit that is just ever so slightly larger than the threads on your 2” screws. Most places like Home Depot or Lowes will cut the pieces down for you when you buy them, so make sure you take the cut list with you when you go shopping!ĭrill three holes all the way through one 2×2 cleat, one hole near each end of the cleat and one hole in the center. The first step is to make sure you have all your lumber cut to the right length. You can use particle board or plywood, whichever you’d prefer it’s all going to be painted and covered up at the end anyway! NOTE: I bought three 8’ sheets of 3/4” particle board and got all of my plywood cuts from those (except the AB piece for the finished top), with a few scraps leftover.
roller frame, roller covers, and roller tray.pipe clamps ( make your own with 3/4” diameter pipe and pipe clamp ends).But if your laundry baskets are a different size or you want a different configuration for your dresser, just adjust the measurements in this tutorial to fit your preferred baskets and configuration!
#Laundry basket how to
My laundry baskets are 2 bushel Sterilite Ultra laundry baskets, and this tutorial will show you how to make a 3×3 dresser that fits these baskets exactly. And now that I have this thing in our basement laundry area, I can’t believe I ever did laundry without it!
Then when Minwax® reached out and asked if I would like to partner with them on a project, I figured it was the perfect opportunity. Today I’m going to show you how to make one yourself, including a cut list so that you can get your lumber pre-cut at the hardware store!īuilding this laundry basket dresser has been on my to-do list for a long time, but I never seemed to get around to it. This laundry basket dresser makes doing laundry so much simpler, and it helps keep our laundry area so much tidier. Once a load is finished in the dryer I can put the clean clothes back on top of the dresser, fold them, and sort them into the “clean clothes” baskets to be taken back upstairs and put away. Now when it’s time to do laundry, I can just dump all the dirty clothes on top of the dresser and then sort them into baskets for darks, colors, whites, etc. Plus, I put a really nice wood top on this dresser so that I can use the top of it as a laundry folding and sorting station. Laundry is a never-ending chore in our house, but I recently built something that makes it SO much easier and more efficient: a laundry basket dresser! It holds nine laundry baskets that slide in and out of the dresser so you can easily put clothes in and take them out.
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