Help design my airing cupboard!

[Mandoidi]

Does anyone else have an airing cupboard like mine, with space at the top but only on one side for shelves? What did you do?

Or does anyone have any ideas?

I want at least a couple of decent sized slatted shelves in there for towels/bedding. I just can't quite work out the best way to do it.
It's a new build so it's stud walls there which may make it even more tricky, and I want it to be easily removed if we need to for plumbing maintenence 😬

Probably the standard slatted shelves solution is the easiest? Something like this, where the shelves rest on batons so they’re removable, with gaps cut for the pipes.

www.roomix.com/products/wooden-slatted-shelves

I can't go all the way across because of the expansion vessel.

Or maybe I could, but the shelf would be very very shallow (and useless).

So I'm looking for a solution that makes the most of the corner

Brackets on both the walls you can reach. Shelf screwed to the brackets

You can go all the way across here - you just need to cut out of the shelf to accommodate the pipe

You can shelve up the corner if you use removable slats type solution. Wall batons and some slats across.

That's quite a lot of equipment in the airing cupboard. Air pump? Do you have any floor space in front? We just went from an old boiler in kitchen chimney and cylinder in airing cupboard to combi in airing cupboard. We have space for 3 shelves at the side of the combi and floor space in front of everything. We used to keep all bedding and towels in there plus air some items. We've not had the shelves done yet. I have a pop up cloth linen basket and an oblong wicker basket in there on the floor and they easily accommodate the all the towels and allow space for airing items. I moved all the bedding to an ottoman in the spare bedroom.

We've gained a cupboard in the kitchen chimney breast. We plan removable shelving in there as there's some pipework for system flush etc. For now I've relocated box stored mixer, blender etc. in there just on the tiled floor. Cupboard already had doors that match kitchen.

Theres no real useable space at the bottom, the cylinder fillls it up. The boiler is in the garage.

Batons on just the two sides means it's gonna have to be much more fixed in place, so not exactly what I was hoping for.
Something that spans the full width probably won't make best use of the depth, so that's not fully ticking my boxes either.

Still interested to see if anyone has solved this exact problem though, but i might have to do some kind of combo of the two ideas above.

Thanks for the suggestions so far!

Also I think I'd be happier if there was a bit more clearance, I don't want to over crowd the cylinder

Why wouldn’t you have a shelf spanning the full width and depth?

You wouldn’t fix a slatted shelf to the batons - it rests on top of the batons so you can lift it out on the once in a blue moon time you need access.

Slatted shelves allow for airflow round the cupboard/equipment.

I don’t understand how this is different to any other airing cupboard in the UK?

We have a large water tank in our airing cupboard, and no space for shelves. The only solution I’ve found for airing clothes is to fit a telescopic shower rail across the width at the front and use that with hangers.
Theres no way that any shelving would fit in and it’s so frustrating not having a usable airing cupboard - my son has two, both without tanks, in his new build and one even has a radiator inside. I’m so envious.

We have a similar airing cupboard.

We have slatted shelves on battens. The facecloths live in a narrow fridge-organiser type box in front of the expansion vessel. There is space for towels next to the vessel. I can reach the facecloths box, but the top of the stack of towels is too high for me so we put the infrequently-used towels up there.

Originally there was another shelf, which had to go when the new tank was installed. The batten is still on the wall, so we have screwed hooks into it and hang things like a torch, the stick that opens the loft hatch, and a loo-roll tidy with spare loo roll.

Fix baton to the three walls. Build a secondary frame with slats on top that fits into the space and remove slats where needed. The wall batons stay in place, the secondary frame can just lift up (lift the right hand side) and be removed for maintenance.

Or something like this. The buttons can just be lifted from the wall mounts individually.

www.wickes.co.uk/ideas-advice/airing-cupboard-storage