On Aug 17, 9:00*am, RicodJour wrote:
On Aug 17, 8:50*am, DerbyDad03 wrote:





I need to mount the corner shelf in this picture on my daughter's dorm
room wall. I am not allowed to drill holes in the wall or damage the
walls in any way.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...lockshelf.jpg/

The shelf is to hold a clock radio. Last year I used strips of Velcro on
the sides and it held for a few months, but eventually the weight of the
clock and it's use (pushing buttons) caused the Velcro to pull off of
the wall.

I then added the dowel (again using Velcro) mounted at a 45 degree angle
below the shelf to support the front and it worked fine, but I didn't
like the look.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to mount the shelf so that it
holds without the dowel? 3M Command strips? Removable Silicon adhesive?

Yes, I am aware that any surface mount that I use could fail because of
the paint on the walls, but let's assume that the paint will hold.

Thanks!

It's probably just the size of the picture and the way the shelf fills
the frame, but the shelf looks thick and heavy. *Is it? *You don't
mention what the wall surface is. *Drywall, concrete block, plaster?

If it's drywall you might think about those Hercules Hook things. *Two
of those would hold it and the holes left would be tiny. *A dab of
toothpaste with a little coloring in it is the usual way for a tenant
to cover up a hole cheaply and quickly.

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The Sharpie was placed there as perspective to help viewers judge the
size, but I guess it didn't work as well as I had hoped. My bad!

The shelf is made from 3/4" veneered pine with 1" high strips of the
same material used as the side rails. The rails are there mainly for
aesthetics and to give me some more surface to add Velcro to. In other
words, the shelf is not very heavy. The sides are 1 3/4" high,
including the rails and the shelf itself, but the rails themselves are
only 3/4" thick. It's hard to tell from the picture, but there is a 1"
gap between the bottom of the shelf and the band saw table because the
shelf is supported by the side rails.

FWIW, the back corner is cut off to allow for the clock's power cord
to hang down behind the shelf when it's mounted in the corner above a
bed.

I have similar shelves for some small speakers in my house and I used
screws and/or toggle bolts through the side rails to mount them to the
walls. Unfortunately, I can't screw into the walls at either of my
girl's colleges, so the shelf must be surface mounted.

The walls are most likely block or plaster since it's an old dorm
building. Definitely not drywall. They are painted, so I know that I'm
at the mercy of how well the paint holds up. As I said, the shelf
worked well last year once I added the dowel as a brace, but it
doesn't look as clean as just the shelf alone.