Cedar closet
Cedar closet linings give clothes a clean, woody scent while keeping moths and other insects at bay. You can buy cedar lining kits that consist of tongue and groove planks that you cut to fit the walls, installing them horizontally from the bottom up. The wood is very light and thin, allowing installation with a pin nailer, which shoots small, headless nails and leaves virtually no surface damage. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Find and mark the studs in the wall with an electronic stud finder. Make the wall with vertical lines, from floor to ceiling, at each stud.
2. Mark a horizontal line along the bottom of the wall with your level, making it as high from the floor as the width of a cedar plank, plus half an inch. (Example: If the cedar planks are 4 inches wide, the line should be 4-1/2 inches from the floor.)
3. Measure across one wall. Use a miter saw to cut a plank at that length. Secure the plank under the horizontal line, tongue-side up, shooting in two nails your pin nailer at the crossing point of each stud.
4. Measure, cut and install the next boards above the first, connecting the tongue and groove sides and nailing it at the studs with your pin nailer. Work all the way up the wall, board by board. Use a table saw to cut the final piece lengthwise, so it will fit against the ceiling with a 1/2 inch gap.
5. Cover each wall of the closet in the same manner. Cut and install trim along the bottom and top of the walls to cover the 1/2 inch gaps.
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