Thursday, January 30, 2020

Build & Organize a Corner Shelving System

Unlike how most people think it is, it is not that hard to build and organize a corner shelving system. Given below is a list of items you would need to build and organize a corner shelving system:

ü  Wood planks with width either 7 inches or 12 inches
ü  Polyurethane, Varnish or other finish to seal wood shelves
ü  1/8th of an inch drill bit
ü  Screws to attach standards to the wall
ü  Power Drill
ü  Shelving brackets in length 6 inches and 10 inches
ü  Shelving standards
ü  Wood stain, paint, primer
ü  1/8th of an inch diameter dowels for joinery
ü  Flat fittings and poplar wood

As soon as you have all of these, you can look forward to building one for yourself. For the record, standards are those long white vertical strips on the wall. These can be anything ranging from bookcase strips such as a flat bookcase strip, tonk strips etc. These generally have notches in them meant for hooking in shelf supports, together known as shelving strips and brackets. These standards generally allow home owners to move shelves both up and down without the need to re-drill holes into the wall. Whatever your choice of standards be, be it the tonk strip or the bookcase strip, they must be attached to the wall by drilling screws through the occasionally placed screw holes into wall studs. It is generally advised that whenever one buys bookcase strip shelf supports or bookcase strips and supports, it be of durable quality as the standards have the responsibility of holding onto heavy shelves. They will eventually begin to pull away from the wall if the screws holding up the standards are not anchored into studs. The most sensible thing to do here is to drill the tonk strip adjustable shelving or the bookcase shelving strip or strip shelving directly into a stud if possible.

One must also have a clear idea about the lumber that needs to be purchased. Shelves are generally narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. They can be the other way round as well, with no hard and fast rule applicable. Shorter shelves must be long enough to reach two studs on the wall and in case you happen to be unsure about stud placement, it is advised that you find a stud finder to mark out the exact location of the studs in your wall. After determining the length of the shelves, they must be marked down on a piece of paper. Ideally, shorter ones are 32 inches long whereas longer ones are 48 inches long. As far as the length of the shelves on the shorter wall is concerned, you must proceed by subtracting the width of the shelf to account for where it eventually butts up against the edge of the shelf, on the other end of the corner.

In all probability, you will not be needing more than two standards for each side of the corner wall system, unless of course the shelf is longer than 64 inches. If the latter happens to be true, then it is recommended that three sets of standards and brackets be used. Once the shelves have been installed, the next obvious thing to do is to decorate them. You can start keeping all the books you want to on the shelves and arrange them according to color and size. Not only that, you can rearrange these shelf standards whenever you want and more shelves can be added and removed from the setup. To make the holiday season more exciting, you can add string lights to these for a festive, cozy feel and for the rest of the year, a lamp which lends light to this small yet noticeable corner of your living room.




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