The ideal spot to construct a in a closet is the flooring. Almost no one will observe a trap door in an unlit closet, especially if there are shoes or boxes on top of it. A bit of the present flooring, cut to expose the structural wood beneath, doesn’t require hinges to function as a lid for the compartment. Discreetly put cloth or leather grips enable the cabinet proprietor to open the box.
Tap the floor of the closet systematically from side to side and front to back to find the flooring joists and mark their locations.
Draw a rectangle of the size you desire your compartment. Your compartment will include a few of the spaces between the joists or your choice of one, and your lines for the endings should be an inch or two outside the joists at the edge. Try to opt for an outline that blends following lines from the wood grain, for instance — to minimize the visibility of the opening. In a closet, you can make the full flooring your accessibility cover.
Use the keyhole saw to cut the outline through both the flooring and sub-flooring to show the flooring joists beneath. This is tedious but ensures you wo cut via a floor joist, as you may with a power saw. Cutting a floor joist could harm your house’s structural integrity.
Assess the width and length of the inner space between joists.
Cut a piece of plywood to the width and length of the space between the joists. This will function as the bottom of your own storage box.
Cut four pieces of wood to fit flush together with all four sides of the plywood box bottom.
Lay the four sticks in a rectangle with all the plywood on top and the edges of the flush .
Hold the plywood securely in place and apply the drill to create pilot holes to eight inches apart around the perimeter of the plywood.
Use the Phillips screwdriver to place a wood screw.
Assess the depth of the space that is available or pick the depth you desire. Depth may be limited installations or by constructions beneath the joists. In a second-story closet, the room’s ceiling below will limit depth.
Cut 2 pieces of plywood to the width of the box by the depth measurement by the depth measurement and to the box bottom’s period. These can make the sides of the box up.
Drill pilot holes to eight inches apart through what will be the bottom edge of the side of the 2-by-2 and also every piece of plywood. Secure screws in each hole.
Cut four 2- to 3-inch pieces of 2-by-2.
Fit one into every corner of the surface of the box, drill pilot holes and twist each into position to hold the sides of the box in place.
So it is flush with the surface of the floor joist lower the box to the space between floor joists.
Drill pilot holes to eight inches apart along the length of the box’s top edge and then in the edge of the joist and fasten with screws.
Make and install boxes .
Cut 2 pieces of leather or cloth in an inch wide and 3 inches long and fold them in half.
Use thumbtacks to fasten the ends of the cloth to the underside of the piece of floors in 2 edge locations that would be tough to see.
Drop the piece of flooring back in place with the cloth handles sticking up at the edges where you can use them to pick up the floors and place goodies in your boxes that are concealed. The bit of flooring will rest on the joists and seem just as it did earlier.