Making Floating Shelves From Solid Wood

Hide the screw heads with wood putty that matches the color of your stain.

Making floating shelves from solid wood.

Classic floating shelves the u shape shelves feature a white finish will be a perfect compliment to your bedroom kitchen living room office or more. To build simple floating shelves determine whether you wish to start with traditional solid wood or a hollow core door then cut the wood down to the proper dimensions assemble the pieces and fix the shelf to the wall using a hidden shelf mount. It s very budget friendly d. Functional wall shelves the solid wood shelves help you reduce clutter in a small room by elegantly storing your books vases family pictures and other trinkets on the wall mount shelves.

Next use paint or stain for a lovely dark choco finish. In the wood supplies you need 1 4 2x2s and 1x6s lumber lengths that you can plan to build both the frame and shelf tops. Hide the screw heads. Hold the shelf against the wall and drive 1 5 8 in.

This diy wood floating shelf project is a great one for anyone looking to get into woodworking and for the more advanced alike. While floating shelves are not designed to hold your old set of encyclopedia britannicas this floating shelf is certainly capable of it. Wood screws through the shelf s pilot holes and into the wall cleat. Use non hardening putty so you can dig it out if you decide to remove the shelf someday.

When i was trying to figure out how to hang the live edge floating shelves in our kitchen i had a lot of trouble finding instructions and hardware for how to hang solid wood floating shelves there are plenty of tutorials for diy floating shelves but they re the kind that are built from plywood and have the hardware concealed inside a wood box. No one would believe that a floating shelf is made from plain old lightweight and inexpensive hollow core doors. I think this way of making floating shelves just looks a little more professional and like you are hanging one solid piece of wood on the wall instead of a hollow box even though it is actually a hollow box it s all about perception folks.