How to Build Your Own Floating Shelves

There are 2 principal type of opened upward shelves that everyone wants inward their homes: built-in shelving together with floating shelves. Since nosotros did both DIYs inward our recent modern bath renovation, I wanted to percentage the tutorials. Last calendar week I shared the Built-In Shelving secrets, together with this calendar week I’m showing y'all had nosotros built our ain floating shelves.

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If y'all already stimulate got a saw together with a duad of clamps, it costs side yesteryear side to zip to construct your ain shelves! You can’t e'er purchase shelves that agree perfectly into your infinite either, simply this is a agency to ensure that your shelves are the perfect size!

Materials: 

2×2 forest boards

Wood Stain of Your Choice

Polycrylic

Pine shelf board (or MDF)

Painters Tape

Screws

Drywall Anchors (if y'all don’t stimulate got studs)

Caulking

Wood Putty

Tools: 

Table Saw

Mitre Saw

Nail Gun together with Finish Nails

Clamps

How exercise y'all Build Floating Shelves?

The outset stair is to decide place on wall together with score out using painters tape.

Locate the wall studs together with score out your studs on painters tape. If y'all don’t stimulate got a stud intersecting amongst the place of the shelf on all 3 of your walls y'all tin role drywall anchors.  Ensure that y'all stimulate got at to the lowest degree 2 studs or a drywall anchors on each wall for a minimum of 2 connector points (6 inward total). If y'all conception to identify heavy objects on the floating shelves y'all may consider having to a greater extent than connector points.

Measure the width of the wall behind the floating shelves, accept this measuring together with subtract 1/4″ (this volition allow 1/8″ of gap betwixt the shelf together with wall on each side). Then decide the depth of the shelf, nosotros went amongst 8″. Build a 2×2 rectangular frame using these measurements.

Install your 2×2 bracing at the right height. Ensure that y'all stimulate got a screw connector to a stud or drywall anchor on each destination of the 2x2s. Check that your brace is degree prior to attaching it to the wall.

We wanted a natural wood hold off thus nosotros used pino shelving boards that nosotros could stain; however, if y'all conception to pigment your shelves y'all tin role MDF. Cut your 3 boards for the top, front, together with bottom of your shelf. Cut the overstep together with bottom boards to the width above, simply add together the thickness of the fabric y'all are using to your measurements. The front end board volition hold upward the exterior dimensions of your shelf (including thickness of the overstep together with bottom materials).

For the overstep together with bottom boards cutting a 45 deg mitre at the destination that meets the front end board. For the front end board cutting a 45 deg mitre on the overstep of bottom (you tin reckon the pocket-sized front end board, amongst 2 45 deg mitres inward the 2d row inward the photograph above).

We stained our boards amongst my favourite natural stain, together with thus protected them with Polycrylic.

Install your finished boards to the 2x2s, using a smash gun together with complete nails. Once the shelf is installed, role forest putty to create amount the smash holes together with whatever gaps betwixt your mitres. Use caulking to create amount whatever gaps betwixt the wall together with shelf.

Fill upward those shelves together with bask your novel modern floating shelves!

These shelves are just what I wanted! You can’t honour custom built shelves similar this anywhere! I’m SO happy amongst how the projection turned out :)

You tin too larn how to easily brand Built-In Shelves!

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