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1. #OPEN THIN SHELVES IUNIT N FRONT OF WINDOW HOW TO#
2. #OPEN THIN SHELVES IUNIT N FRONT OF WINDOW FULL#
3. #OPEN THIN SHELVES IUNIT N FRONT OF WINDOW FREE#

My shelves were surrounded on three sides by walls the entire tutorial is pretty much contingent upon that fact alone, so if you are trying to secure these on a wall that isn’t at least surrounded on two sides with studs or a place to put anchors, you may have support issues.

#OPEN THIN SHELVES IUNIT N FRONT OF WINDOW FULL#

utility knife (mine was provided to me by the folks at OLFA, but I seriously LOVE this thing)*įor drilling into tile (see this post for the full tutorial):.Finishing nail gun & air compressor or cordless nail gun.

5mm sanded plywood (for the bottom of each shelf decorative purposes only).1/2″ sanded plywood (for the top of each shelf).So let’s get on with the tutorial, shall we? DIY Long and Thin Floating Shelves Lumber: And a lot better than the whole bodybuilder thing. So, I worked on the idea for a bit and combined tutorial ideas that I spied on Pinterest until I came up with something that worked for me.

#OPEN THIN SHELVES IUNIT N FRONT OF WINDOW HOW TO#

What wasn’t so simple is figuring out how to make something thin support a lot of weight…like chicken legs on bodybuilder. But considering that my laundry room space is really, really tight (and awkwardly shaped), I simply didn’t like the idea of thick, chunky shelves taking up the view. Or some people just like them that way, and that’s good too. The inner structure has to bear the weight, and shelf thickness is often just a byproduct of that. A certain thickness is to be understood for the sake of getting a long, wide shelf to be sturdy enough to last with a reasonable amount of weight on it (and without bowing in the middle over time). I get that it’s a combination of personal taste and function. And some things just aren’t-like peanut butter, Leonardo DiCaprio (sorry #dadbod fans), and my floating shelves. For me, certain things are meant to be chunky-like a baby’s legs and cookie dough ice cream. My biggest issue was that most floating shelves require the frame of the shelving system to be rather thick if they’re going to be as long as I needed mine to be.

Secure. I spent a while looking, but I honestly had a hard time finding one that had all of these in one. Because despite the many tutorials I’ve looked through, I’ve never been able to find the exact combination of features I was looking for. Here’s the thing with these shelves: I’ve been contemplating them for a while. The thin floating shelves in the laundry room are now 100% done. And with these crossed off the list, I can finally start using them-which also means that I can finally make the cluttered floor of “Mount Washmore” a thing of the past and gain some extra storage.

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In this easy tutorial, I share free plans for how to create long and thin floating shelves with inexpensive materials.