These cutouts will help to fix the brackets on the wall and to fix the floating shelf on the brackets. Then I made one 2 cm long channel, starting from each hole. I drilled holes with an 8 mm drill bit: two on each side of 30 cm and one on each side of 20 cm. The space between the sides of the brackets is very small, so they should be screwed manually and the tightening would not be perfect, but safe. Besides all these, we definitely would not have had space for the cordless screwdriver. If I couldn’t find any black screws I was planing to paint them with the same black paint. Aesthetically, it is impossible not to see the heads of the screws, even if I wanted to use black screws. In this way the shelf can be supported on the almost its entire width.Īnother important aspect that we took into account is that we did not want that the screws to be visible (those screws with which the brackets will be fixed on the wall and those screws with which the shelf will be fixed on the brackets). We chose 30 cm for one side of the brackets because on this side will be fixed the oak floating shelf of 31 cm deep. The other side, the hypotenuse had about 36 cm. We cut 3 pieces from the metal bar for each small bracket to form a rectangular triangle with two sides of 30 cm and 20 cm. We chose a very simple model for the metal brackets. The oak wood floating shelf is sanded with 120 grit sandpaper The way that the floating oak wood shelf looks after applying the polyurethane primer and the polyurethane varnish The oak wood floating shelf The edges have been beveled so that there is no sharp edge. The shelf is 100 cm long and 31 cm deep and it was protected with scratch-resistant polyurethane primer and varnish. All we can say is that this floating shelf was made out of 2 cm thickness continuous oak wood planks by using our simple clamping system which tightens and flattens the panel in the same time. So, we will not insist much on the shelf itself. We have build oak countertops and table tops over time and we wrote about them in various articles (other articles will come sooner). The combination of black painted iron and solid oak wood is not only suitable for the tables or for the office desks, but also for the floating shelves installed by using welded metal shelf brackets.
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