Hey friends! Ash and I are SO pumped to share our very first YouTube video tutorial with you guys today! When choosing which project to tackle on video first, we found it fitting to start with our most popular build…. The floating shelf. We have built a ton of these bad boys, in different sizes and materials. Today’s floating shelf we built are super inexpensive and easy to create. First, check out our Floating Shelf Video! Just click the play button below!
Here are the overall finished dimensions of our shelf…
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First step…. Make your cuts. We used a miter saw to make our cuts. The hardwood plywood comes in bigger sheets at the hardware store. You can have the guys there cut it down for you to make it easier to get home.
Here are the cuts for 1 floating shelf.
Second step…Build your box. This shelf uses hardwood plywood and 1×6 to create the box. For this box, we used wood glue and 1.25″ finish nails to attach all of our pieces. Build the 4 sides first, and then glue and nail the top piece to that.
We finished our box and stained it. While it was drying we built the wall cleat.
This is made from a 2×4. We made our cuts and then used our Kreg Jig to create 1.5″ pocket holes into each of the 3 smaller pieces.
We attached each of those three pieces to the longer 2×4 using wood glue and 2.5″ pocket hole screws.
Once we had the wall support assembled, we attached it to the wall using 3″ screws. We used a stud finder to mark the studs in the walls and then drove the screws through the wall support and into the studs of the wall. We often get asked how much weight these shelves will hold. If you build and attach them correctly, they are strong! 🙂
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEpPuoZy5As/Our final step is fitting the shelf over the support. The box just slides over the wall support. We used 1.5″ screws through the top of the box and into the support to hold it in place.
Finished! These hold just about anything… I found the arrow bookends at Pottery Barn, but they no longer carry them BUT I found almost an exact match (and cheaper) on Amazon HERE!
Hope we made that easy for you! Be sure to check out the video tutorial HERE on YouTube and subscribe to our channel so you don’t miss anything! We will be sharing new videos regularly!
Let us know if you have any questions at all and HAPPY BUILDING!
