Install Shelves By Yourself – It’s An Easy DIY Project

  By admin | 2011/04/04 - 4:29 pm | Uncategorized Leave a comment

Wall mounted shelves offer the convenience of providing additional storage in a room. These could be of wood or metal with supporting brackets or you may have even floating shelves and use the available vertical space in the room, more so in case of smaller rooms. Perhaps, the best feature of vertical shelves is their easy installation. Here’s how to go about their installation:

1. You need a stud finder to locate the position of studs on the wall. Slide that along the surface of the wall and depending upon the model of the stud finder, you’ll get an audio or visual signal as it reaches the edge of wall stud. Using a pencil put a mark on that point. Starting from the opposite side, now slide the stud finder in the direction of the mark you already made till you get a signal of its having located the other end of the stud. Mark this point too.

If you move by about thirty-two inches and repeat the above process, you’ll locate the second stud. If the shelf isn’t too large to hit both the studs, you need not repeat the procedure. Just use wall plugs for supporting brackets, which need no drilling into the studs.

2. Position one of the brackets at the point you like to hang that. Using your pencil mark the position of the screw hole. Make sure that you’re beginning at the stud. Now, drill a pilot hole on the already marked point. If the bracket has two holes, you need to drill two pilot holes.

3. While keeping the bracket aligned with the screw holes above the pilot holes, drill or screw the correct sized screw in the pilot holes. See that it just embraces the area and leave it there without tightening it any further.

4. With the help of a level, align the other bracket alongside the wall to mark the position of its screw holes. Drill pilot holes and put in wall plugs. Next, screw down the brackets in the wall plugs. The wall plugs provide a good hold with the wall when you are unable to use studs for holing the brackets securely.

5. Finally, you tighten all the screws and fasten the wall shelf with the brackets. Using the level, ensure that it is balanced correctly.

So, you see installation of wall-mounted shelves is an easy affair and you wouldn’t take more than an hour to complete it. Yes, now is the time to sit back and benefit from your better-organized room.

Corner Wall Shelf – A Sophisticated Choice

  By admin | 2011/04/04 - 3:29 pm | Corner Shelving Leave a comment

Including a corner wall shelf is an excellent way to add a touch of style to any room. The most interesting feature of having corner wall shelf is that it enables you to create additional space in the room, while adding to the overall environment of the room. The space available in the corners of most rooms is even otherwise wasted. Having specially designed shelves for the corners of the room makes it more inviting and facilitates storage of quite many items.

One room that always seems to be falling short of space is the living room. Often, you have to look for some appropriate arrangement or accessory enabling you have a tasteful display of some of your valued possessions. An easy way out of this dilemma is to include some comer wall shelves. The space offered by the corner shelves allows you to bring out your family heirlooms and such from the boxes and share the pleasure and pride of beautiful items with others.

Perhaps the present arrangement in your home comprises of some pieces of furniture in the corner. That should not pose any problem of installing corner shelves as long as the furniture is of low height. You can still fix corner shelf at a slightly higher level than the furniture. And, why not have shelves in opposite corners or even in all the corners of the room to create enough space.

You could even consider having a corner wall shelf in your child’s room. Keeping it at an appropriate height allows you to store items that you wouldn’t want the child to meddle with. Depending on the size and number of items that you want to keep away from the child’s reach you can have a number of corner shelves in that room. This is the perfect way to store breakable items in a child’s room.

One factor that you need to keep in mind while shopping around for a corner shelf is to know the size and existing layout of the room wherein you would like to include the shelf. May be the room already has stains. You should also be considering the color of paint used in that room. That helps you to choose an appropriate arrangement that would go along well with the room and blends with its present décor.

The Best Memorabilia Display Shelves

  By admin | 2011/01/16 - 10:21 am | General Leave a comment

It’s no pleasant experience for a hobbyist to collect memorable items but not to find an appropriate way of displaying their expensive wares. The very desire to display their collection is prompting for them follow this hobby. There are quite a few styles of differently designed shelves for the purpose of making your pricey collection to stand out. The shelves that create an element of interest to the onlooker and prompt them to have a second look are really the best of all.

One of the very popular kinds of shelving piece is known as the curio. This design of display case comes with a few shelves positioned at different levels within it and has antique looks of a grandfather clock. But, in lieu of the normal clock and pendulum arrangement, it has glass windows on all the three sides with a mirror forming its back. That means you can view the stored collectibles from all 360 degrees.

Staggered shelves, which are in fact attached to form one big free standing piece, can get very noticeable if they occupy the right position in the room. Generally made of metal or wood, staggered shelf frames are also made from glass at times. At times, these kinds of display shelves are given the shape of a pyramid so that the not so important collectibles can be kept at its bottom with the most prized ones coming to the top.

Those who just like to have their items on the walls would even find the basic wall shelves to solve the purpose. On the other hand, collectors wanting to make an attractive display for the purpose of selling the items would better keep them secured. Certainly, it would be safer to position these at a higher level on the wall, disabling children and pets from reaching out to these. Moreover, the material used for their construction should be pleasing and aesthetically designed to catch attention of onlookers.

And, then we do get shelves that are just fun and prove quite decorative because of fun element. Quite often you may find sports enthusiasts to have especially made memorabilia cases for displaying their achievements. The glass container itself takes the shape of the collectible and thus prevents others from really touching it. A good example will be that of displaying your Dallas Cowboys in a case fashioned in the style of a cowboy.

Display shelves made from glass may be positioned high on the walls or these could just be appropriately positioned on the floor itself as free standing pieces of furniture. Each kind is purposely designed to keep the collectibles safe from the hazards of a normal household. As some of the items are very precious, their enclosures are designed to have locking arrangement too. Look for a style that most befits the room and keep the bits and pieces of collectibles on top of that.