Furniture made with your own hands will give the house of individuality and creativity. Making, for example, wall shelves are self-apertured, you can maximize your wishes and preferences in reality, pick up the desired form, color, material and size of the product.

In addition to the fact that they will save the area of \u200b\u200bthe room, freeing it from bulky cabinets, the shelves can also become a highlight of the entire interior. So let's figure it out how to make the shelves on the wall with their own hands.

Wall shelves in the interior

Wall-mounted shelves are an indispensable attribute in any house, it is one of the best ways to diversify the interior and save room space, in addition, they are also very functional. For example, in the living room they will serve for storing books, photos, boxes or other little things. The bathroom is the best place to store detergents and cosmetics. In the hallway, the shelf on the wall will be useful for storing hats, gloves and keys. In addition, wall shelves without problems can be made with their own hands, this will require a little imagination and minimal specific skills. If you are able to drive a nail into the wall, then the regiment on the wall will not be difficult for you.

Types of wall shelves

Many materials, forms and sizes led to the next classification of wall shelves:

  • classic

This type of shelves is most common due to its simplicity, aesthetic appearance and convenience in the installation. They are a huge flight of fantasies: from simple square to creative asymmetric forms.

  • corner

This type of wall shelves is distinguished by the fastening method - is carried out on adjacent adjacent walls. Most often they are mounted in the utility rooms and bathrooms.

  • suspended

This original method of creating a shelf involves fastening of a simple design to the ceiling with cables or vertical racks.

  • outdoor

This wall shelf is a design with an outdoor support. This type of product is especially relevant in the hallways, as well as large rooms, where you do not have to think about the loss of space.

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  • open and closing the shelf on the wall

Wall shelves can be designed, for example, with glass or without it.

Mounts for the shelves on the wall

  • reliable fixation

The mount here is carried out with the help of construction dowels or anchors to the walls. This type of fixation is characterized by great reliability and lifting capacity. The disadvantage is that, if desired, dismantle this wall shelf will arise some problems.

  • removable mount

This fixation is also quite reliable, but here the mount is made with the help of brackets and mounting hooks.

  • modular or movable fixation

Here the lower tier of the wall shelf serves as a support for the top or vice versa. This design allows you to optimally use a vertical or horizontal space.

Wall-mounted materials

  • Tree: Plywood, chipboard, MDF and others. With this material, it is relatively easy to work, it looks beautiful, naturally and effectively, its service life is quite large, especially if we pre-process.

  • Plastic. This material is the most versatile, it can simulate both a tree and a stone, while removing their shortcomings.
  • Metal. Such wall shelves will be very durable, reliable and durable, but in the classic interior they will fit with difficulty. In addition, corrosion can be a problem, so special processing and conditions will be required for metal products.
  • Glass. Transparent wall shelves will create an atmosphere of lightness and coziness in the house. Of course, make with your own hands the glass design will be difficult, but if you, nevertheless, decide to independently do all the work, then with glass will have to work quite a long time and very carefully, especially if various cuts are planned in the shelves design.

Preparation for the creation of shelves

Before making the shelf, each of its creator should clearly think out its plan, so that the end result did not become disappointment. Imagining the form of the product and its location, it will be appropriate to measure the proportionality of the magnitude of the shelf and the place where it will be fixed. After that, we draw a conditional drawing of the manufactured item and already think about each item in the drawing. For initial experience, it is recommended to make a conventional regiment, which will significantly simplify the process and show the main disadvantages of its installation and manufacture, if such.

The process of manufacturing the shelf cannot be called long, but also to short it does not apply. The most pleasant moment in this case is the completion of the installation and checking its functional. In order to finish the work turned out to be disappointment, you should clearly understand what will stand on the product. The same thing in the amount of things or objects may have a completely different weight. Because if you are not sure that it will stand on it or you have several options that are significantly different in weight, it is best to create a shelf for overestimated loads. The reinforced design on the technology of creation is not different from the usual, all the same, only you need to apply more durable materials. Boards, if it is a wooden regiment, you should take the thicker, and the fastening frame is more reliable.

But not each of you wants to make a wooden shelf, since there are many more materials that allow you to create this subject. For example, a metal shelf on a reliability account will benefit from all possible options, but its creation and creation of its attachment is not so simple, since metal, heavier than all materials can be processed.

Tools that may be needed

To create wall shelves, you need:

  • screwdriver;
  • drill
  • sandpaper or grinding machine;
  • level;
  • self-tapping screw;
  • screws or minor nails;
  • pencil and ruler;
  • crosteins;
  • dowels;
  • of course, the consumable shelves (wood boards, metal or plastic).

Stages of creating wood shelves

Deciding to make wooden shelves, you should pay special attention to the materials, namely, their preparation. For the durability and reliability of the design, the board with which we will create it should be dry, if on the contrary, then at the moment of drying, the object begins to be eradicted, which will significantly affect the shape and strength. It is best to dry the board in the stacks and with the help of slag blocks located evenly on the surface of the board. If you already have a dried suitable workpiece, then it should be carefully polished. This not only gives your shelf, but will prepare it for the next stage. During the grinding of the board you will be very easy to determine how well it is dried. Quickly clogging emery skar indicates a moisture content of wood fibers.

An example of creating a shelf in the form of bee cooker:

1. Grain saw cutting is set by 30 degrees, which throughout the project will be used.

2. Although a figured stakenik you, to make a rectangular board, cut a decorative element and prepare the first edge.

3. Marking the board, measure 300 mm from the finished edge.

4. In the marked place, take the second cut, subsequently getting the first element of 15.

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5. By manufacture all 15 elements, make sure that they all correspond to each other.

6. After this, you check the joints of the parts, elementary attaching their circle to a friend on the floor.

7. The next step will be a gluing. We apply glue to the edge of the workpiece.

8. For a few seconds we press the details for a while.

9. Now, at an angle of 90 degrees, a drill of 1.2 mm drills a hole to prevent possible cracking and simplification when screwing in screws.

10. Connect the elements among themselves.

11.There all sections, applying paragraphs 7-10.

12. Scheduled all the blocks of the shelf, a number of 2 holes drill, without falling into already twisted screws, and then twist.

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13.The installation of the internal shelves must be measured the distance inside and make the cuts at the appropriate angle, and then fasten.

14. In the end, it is necessary to abandon the edges gently sandpaper.

After grinding comes the moment of coating with paint and varnishes. This will allow not only to give a shelf of the appearance, but also to prevent tree darkening. Many covers wall shelves by Maurilka, because it is possible to preserve the type of wood, but also very in this business is popularly popular, after which the initial look with the gloss effect is also preserved. After all the materials are dried away, you can start assembling the entire design.

Hide the shelf on the wall

The first thing we need is 8 mm or 10 mm drill, with which we drill the wall, and after scoring there a dowel and fasten the bracket for our shelves.

The next step will be the test for the strength of the bracket by impact by force, which will make it clear how firmly the entire object will hold.

In further actions, without an assistant, it will be difficult to do. Wearing a design to a knobbed bracket you need to center the shelf and mark the place under the second hole of the fastening. After that, we remove the shelf and install the second bracket, without forgetting to check it on strength.

At the final stage, we hinder the creation of your hands on the wall and ready.

In conclusion I would like to say about some important nuances.

  • Do not save on an additional material, as then it can play with you a keen joke
  • Double nail dowel should be at least 6 centimeters, but not more than 10
  • Before mounting, any of your products, it is worth studying the wall, namely what kind of material it is. In the brick wall it is worth drilling holes with a diameter of less than the diameter of the dowel-nail. For each coating there are separate dowels and therefore, when buying it is better to turn to a specialist.

Creative shelves on the wall of books

These wall shelves are very original and at the same time requiring minimal financial costs. For their facilities, you need to buy screws, dowels, two large and one small crosteiner. There is still a pencil, a ruler, an electric drill for drilling holes and, of course, books with solid binding. Initially, the wall should be marked by the alleged location of the shelves. Then the knellings are attached - from the bottom of each shelf two large at the distance of the length of the book, and in the middle - a small, distant from the other remaining on the thickness of the book. The shelf is inserted between the fasteners, it should be closely clamped between them.

Such a shelf is unlikely to withstand the overall elements, but it will most like a schoolboy or student in a student's room.

Original shelves on the wall - the second life of old things

If you want to organize in your room the original shelf, look around, for sure you will find many items that are perfect for this role. Old boxes, musical instruments, bottles or other unnecessary things can be used for mercenary purposes.

If you adore music, and you have an exhausted guitar in your house, then why not hang on the wall, and not just, but with benefit. To do this, it will be necessary to "complain" it, but "the game is worth the candle."

If you have an interior in retro style, then, just, the shelf will come from the old TV. Freeing all the inner space, such a shelf will become an excellent receptacle for books and photos.

You have old licks in your house, and you do not know what to do with them. In no case do not throw them away, they will perfectly play the role of wall shelves.

If you organized in your room Country style, then the wall shelf from a small staircase perfectly fit into it. Yes, yes ... it is from the stairs. Only it needs to be placed vertically, but horizontally. If we thoroughly think about it, then additional manipulations will not need so that the items are firmly stood on such a shelf.

The shelves on the wall of the fabric will look very impressive. To do this, you will need a dense material, for example, tapestry or flax, wood sticks and brackets. Sust and tissue pockets, secure them on sticks, and then on the wall.

Having taking such wall shelves from skateboards, the children's room of the boy will turn into his favorite place.

As you can see, when creating wall shelves, you can use the most extraordinary ideas and the most unusual things. Fantasize, experiment, and then you can create the interior to which you and your guests will never be indifferent.