Small Utility Room Shelving Solution & the Best Way to Organize Paint Supplies

Having a fully finished basement adds a lot of livable square footage to our house, but it also means that there’s almost no storage space. But you know I love a good challenge, so we worked our magic and managed to squeeze in some much needed utility room shelving and organized every available inch of space.

HOW TO ADD SHELVING TO A SMALL UTILITY ROOM

Utility rooms generally aren’t the most storage friendly spaces, and the pipes running floor to ceiling in the middle of ours made it just that much harder to work with.

When we first moved in, we bought a narrow shelf unit for the corner of the utility room. The dimensions were small enough to fit behind the pipes, but the floor in the utility room slopes so drastically toward the drain in the middle of the room that even the adjustable feet on the unit were not enough to make the shelves stand level and steady in the space.

For a while we were resolved to the fact that our tiny utility room couldn’t effectively be used for any kind of storage. Finally it occurred to us that while the sloped floor meant we couldn’t have a free standing shelving unit, we had no shortage of studs to which we could attach shelf brackets.

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To ensure that the shelves weren’t going anywhere, Scott also secured the brackets to the underside of the shelves with short screws. As you can see, Scott was working in pretty tight quarters while installing these shelves.

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