So we picked up these 2 inch metal angle brackets. These worked perfect, because they were short enough to hide behind the 2.5 inch boards, but strong enough to hold the weight without bending. The blade wasn’t big enough to cut through the whole board (wah wahhh), so Chris cut half, flipped the board, lined up the blade with the first cut, and finished cutting through.Įven though we wanted the shelves to look like they were floating (ie, no visible brackets), we knew that would be difficult to achieve with the size of boards we were dealing with. Even still, the ends were a little rough and uneven, which we expected, so the first step was to square the edges and cut them to fit on the wall exactly. We were pleasantly surprised at how inexpensive they were. We special ordered the boards because we wanted them a little thicker, and we wanted squared edges. (We special ordered these from our local lumber yard for $33 each)Ĥ0–3/4″ screws (came with the inside corner braces we bought from Ace) And why wouldn’t you!?Ĥ–10 3/4″ deep x 2 1/2″ thick x 10′ long boards of Douglas Fir. We are so pleased with the results! Of course, now we can fill them up with books and some accessories, but before we do that we wanted to give you a full breakdown of what we used and what we did in case you wanted to do something similar in your home. We really wanted wall-to-wall thicker solid wood shelves that maybe looked like they were floating, but not necessarily are–since you can’t very easily achieve that with solid wood.
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