Does anyone know how to create floating shelves. I know I can buy them from
such as Ikea but is there anywhere I can get the necessary brackets (assuming
some special brackets are necessary) so that I can do them myself with wood
that matches the rest of the room better.


Thanks


David

DCMyers1 wrote:
Does anyone know how to create floating shelves. I know I can buy them from
such as Ikea but is there anywhere I can get the necessary brackets (assuming
some special brackets are necessary) so that I can do them myself with wood
that matches the rest of the room better.

The real problem is that most houses don't have the needed headroom to
put the flotation balloons.

"DCMyers1" wrote in message
...
Does anyone know how to create floating shelves. I know I can buy them
from
such as Ikea but is there anywhere I can get the necessary brackets
(assuming
some special brackets are necessary) so that I can do them myself with
wood
that matches the rest of the room better.


Thanks


David

Saw some in Ikea down in their "market place"

On 12 Sep 2004 06:48:58 GMT, (DCMyers1) wrote:

Does anyone know how to create floating shelves.

Dead easy. The hard part is usually attaching them to the wall - an
invisible fixing needs a very shallow vertical attachment and that's
putting a lot of bending force onto the screws, even if they're into
brickwork.

For the shelf itself, I use a steel inner frame - 1" square tube
welded to another square box across the back. The shelf slips over
these supports. It's made from a sandwich of 6mm MDF top, 4mm MDF
bottom and egg-crate construction between (or softwood battens).
Leave channels for the steelwork. Hold it on place over the steel
with a couple of self-tappers from beneath.

For a plasterboard wall, I'd use a flat steel plate below, above or
both. If you chamfer the edges, blend them in with filler, wallpaper
and paint over them they're pretty invisible.
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