Guides
These pages describe the rack the designer draws: two wood frames, front and back, tied together by lip supports so a plastic bin can slide in and sit on its lip. Read them with the designer open. The numbers on your screen are the numbers to build from. The articles explain what those numbers mean.
Do this in order
- Measure the bin you actually own, or start from a preset and then check it with a tape.
- In the designer, set how many bins across and how many high. Read the outer width, height, and depth, and fix any warning before you buy wood.
- Use the cut list. Then follow how the frame goes together so the cleats land where the lips need to sit.
What this rack is
Each bay is a slot. The bin’s body hangs between two cleats. The lip, the wide rim at the top, rests on those cleats. Front and back are matching rectangular frames of 2×4, with the narrow 1½ inch face toward you as you slide a bin in. The cleats run the full depth of the rack and screw to the front upright and the back upright.
It is a specific pattern. It is not a French-cleat wall, a wire shelf, or a metal pallet rack. If your bin has no lip to sit on, this design does not have a shelf for the bottom of the bin to rest on.
Bin presets
The dropdown starts from published sizes plus lip measurements we use as defaults. A preset locks the outer depth, width, and height until you change bins. Confirm them. Names and SKUs identify a product. We are not the store or the manufacturer.
- How to measure a bin Depth, width, lip, and the slack fields, in the same order as the form.
- How the rack goes together Frames, uprights, cleats, screws, and a sensible build order.
- 27 gallon tote Costco SKU 718262. The largest preset, and the designer’s default.
- 12.9 quart Iris bin Costco SKU 1410571. A smaller lip and a shorter bay.
- 6 quart Brightroom box Target TCIN 93327180. The smallest preset.