You can have the biggest, best mudroom in the world but without some organization in the form of a closet or compartmentalized unit your mudroom won’t be functional. Let’s make that amazing mudroom space completely functional with locker style cubbies for all the jackets, hats, gloves and gear.
Build these locker style mudroom locker cubbies for your space. With an organized system all the shoes, jackets and things have a place!
I’m back sharing the locker style mudroom build and today it’s the top portion of locker cubbies with two open shelves above.
To refresh your memory I am referring to this DIY locker and bench unit I built for a friend back in July 2012. After a bazillion requests I’ve finally made plans to share with my readers so you can build it yourself.
Last week I shared the shoe cubby bench plans here and this week we will complete the project with the upper locker cubbies.
Materials:
- 3 – ¾” plywood sheets
- 7 – 1x2x8 boards
- 2 – 1x4x8 boards
- 2 – ¼ plywood sheets (or beadboard for backing)
- 1 ¼” pocket hole screws
- wood glue
- 1 ¼” finish nails
Cut List:
- 1 – ¾” plywood @ 80 ½”l x 14 ¾”w (top)
- 6 – ¾” plywood @ 68”l x 13”w (dividers)
- 6 – ¾” plywood @ 14 ¾”l x 13”w (shelves)
- 4 – ¾” plywood @ 15 1/8”l x 13”w (exterior shelves)
- 6 – 1×4 @ 14 3/4”l (cross support)
- 4 – 1×4 @ 15 1/8”l (exterior cross support)
- 1 – 1×2 @ 76”l (top trim)
- 2 – 1×2 @ 68”l (side trim)
- 4 – 1×2 @ 66 ½”l (divider trim)
- 1 – ¼” plywood @ 68”l x 47 1/2”w (backing)
- 1 – ¼” plywood @ 68”l x 31 ½”w (backing)
Step 1: Attach sides to top using pocket holes. Use wood glue and 1 ¼” pocket hole screws. Keep ¾” inset from top edges, ¼” inset from back edge and 1 ½” inset from front edge.
Step 2: Attach shelves to dividers using pocket holes. Use wood glue and 1 ¼” pocket hole screws.
Step 3: Attach cross supports to frame at back. Use wood glue and 1 ¼” pocket hole screws.
Step 4: Attach face frame. Secure to unit using wood glue and 1 ¼” finish nails.
Step 5: Attach interior face frame to dividers. Use wood glue and 1 ¼” finish nails.
Step 6: Attach backing to shelves using wood glue and ¾” finish nails. Use two pieces and keep seam behind one divider.
The top locker cubby unit it secured to the shoe cubbies base using L brackets just on the interior of the vertical face frame at the edges of the locker portion. Mending plates were added on the back as well.
The details and plans for the shoe cubby bench portion can be found here:
Make your mudroom amazing with a locker style unit built to fit your space. Plenty of room for shoe baskets, hanging space for jackets and gear plus two open shelves above for wood bins or baskets for off season storage.
Our Pinteresting Family says
November 2, 2015 at 1:42 AMThese look fantastic!!
jcprime1 says
May 24, 2017 at 12:09 PMThanks Megan. I finally got 'reply' added to my comments – only took me 7 years.
Mike says
January 1, 2017 at 10:22 PMInterested in knowing how this can or should be secured against the wall?
Jesse says
January 4, 2017 at 3:41 AM^^ Mike: You could pop a few 2" screws through the upper 1×4 supports into studs and caulk/paint over the screw heads. If you want something a bit less permanent, get some L-brackets and hide them at the back of the upper shelves in the corners. One side of the bracket against the bottom or side of the upper cubby, one side against the back of the structure with 2" screws going into studs. 2 or 3 should be plenty to prevent tipping.
Jesse says
January 4, 2017 at 3:42 AMOr even put the brackets at the very top of the structure, completely out of sight
Mike says
January 17, 2017 at 12:58 AMAwesome, thanks so much for the helpful suggestions, Jesse!
Mike says
May 23, 2017 at 1:10 AMJust wanted to pass along my 'thanks' for these helpful plans. I managed to complete the locker storage unit and it fits rather well in my newly-renovated mudroom! 🙂
Photo of the completed unit is here:
http://mikelovesjulia.tumblr.com/post/160967339554/mudroom-storage-locker-using-helpful-instructions
jcprime1 says
May 24, 2017 at 12:07 PMMike you are so welcome, thanks for sharing your completed project. Love your hardware choice and that wallpaper is so fun.
jcprime1 says
May 24, 2017 at 12:08 PM3/4" birch plywood and pine boards. The cost varies depending on where you live but estimate about $400 for the whole unit (lockers and bench).
Mark Johnson says
June 12, 2018 at 2:30 PMTime for a new comment on this thread.
I modified the plans slightly, 4 instead of 5 lockers and 1 instead of 2 top cubbies, and added 1×2 to the edge of the top shelf. Overall, it was a fun project. Hard to tell but I finished it with Home Depot Behr Paint in Swiss Coffee Semi-Gloss. For the stain I used 3 coats of Espresso, followed by 3 coats of Semi-Gloss Acrylic on everything with a light 400 grit sand between coats.
For anyone thinking of building this. We bought the baskets first, then designed the width of the lockers based on them (found at Target), also for the pocket holes, make sure you don’t put them back-to-back…the screws will hit each other 😉
Thanks for the plans Jamie
https://imgur.com/a/dGPUulK