How To Build Floating Shelves With Lights

Take a minute to line them all up perfectly so that they ll fit together without any gaps but don t stress too much if there are some imperfections wood filler will help with that.

How to build floating shelves with lights.

These shelves are handsome easy to build and inexpensive. For this diy floating shelf project i m using stock boards from the home center a miter saw to cut them to length and a drill driver to assemble the pieces with screws and wood glue. Cut the shelf to length. And they re strong even though they have no visible supports.

The led strips are 16 long but can be cut to size so the length of your floating shelf can really be whatever you want it to be. The spots are used to light up glass vases witch are filled with. I install led spots upside down in the shelves. These floating wall shelves are perfect.

Finally i give the shelves a light sanding and apply two coats of oil. Assembling the floating shelves to assemble the shelves start by laying out your side and front pieces all in a row with the mitered side facing down. I ll also be using a sander to smooth my edges but you can also just use a sanding sponge. We made them from only two parts half of a hollow core door and a 2x4.

I hold them in place and start to tighten the excenters a little bit. I did modify my corner shelves pictured above by using the same technique from the last tutorial to make thinner shelves. For less than 10 you could make 3 all of these. This was the most helpful floating corner shelves tutorial i found when i recently built some.

Steps for building a floating shelf. To make floating shelves start by cutting a piece of wood into three pieces so that the first piece is as long as your shelf panel which is the flat piece of wood that forms the bottom of the shelf and the other 2 pieces are the same width as the shelf. They appear to float on the wall no clunky hardware or brackets. To give them a more interesting look i structure them with a small disc on a powercarving tool before gluing them to the edge of the plywood.

In this video i am making floating shelves. The shelves can now be put in place. This is the part that fastens to the wall and is the structure. In my specific case i will be needing a 78 long shelf that goes from wall to wall.

The part that i call the base is the inside of the shelf.