PS: You might also want to check out the floating shelves in our family room. We realized this after we hung the first one but then we kinda liked the look and did the same thing with the rest.Īny other floating shelf fans out there? How did you install go? Can’t stress enough on how important this is! We were about half an inch off that’s why the shelves are not flush against the wall. Strangely enough the whole ordeal was not bad. The key thing to remember is measure, measure, measure. The first step was to remove the chipboard block. To begin my IKEA LACK shelf installation, I positioned the shelf mount to and used a leveler to make sure that my shelf would be centered. Peel back the tape from the shelf and stick to the wall making sure that it is level. Thanks to Pinterest I found an easy way to measure the length and mark the nail holes, painters tape. It retails for 130, but you can build your own for 30 each I sprayed mine with a metallic chrome finish, but the options really are endless when you build. If you need help assembling your IKEA furniture you can access the instructions at any moment. Then you need to screw the nails that came with the shelf into it from the bottom.Ĭontrary to what we had expected we had the toughest time with the small shelf. The hanging mechanism of the smallest Lack looked like the usual pic frame type with two hooks on the end. The product assembly instructions will be listed. Click Assembly & other documents to open tab. A pop-up will open with a link to Assembly & other documents. Scroll down the product information page and click product details. We used a laser level that we already had, which ended up saving us a lot of time.įixing the shelf to the railing is pretty simple, through a groove locking mechanism. Search for your product at the top of the page and go to your product's page. So you need to find out the center of the shelf and mark you nail holes from the center. The railing that attaches to the wall is set in the middle of the shelf. Once you decide on how you want to arrange them measure the length of the shelf and the distance from one end of the shelf to the start of the railing. IKEA seems to have the best price, selection, and reviews when it comes to floating shelves. The GRANHULT brackets are great when you need a custom width shelf because the end brackets cover up the cut end, so no one can see the non-factory cut. You can also choose to hang it vertically or horizontally depending on space and storage needs. We used IKEA lack shelves here (and in the family room). We started with six nickel colored GRANHULT brackets and two 94 1/2 BERGSHULT shelves. A tight space or an unused wall This shelf almost always fits. Not too bad for two folks who end up in a fight every time we try to hang even a simple pic frame? Partly inspired by Ferm Living’s Tuck vase and loosely drawing on a DIY tutorial of said vase by Lena from I opted to transform the simple $25 ledge into a sculptural floating mantel using more than six pounds of air-drying clay.The first time we installed IKEA LACK floating shelves, in our family room, we had hired help but with the ones in my son’s room we decided to tackle it ourselves. Enter the ingenious IKEA Lack shelf hack. IKEA items used: IKEA LACK wall shelves (110cm version) x 3 Other materials and. This tutorial is also great if you just want to install floating wall shelves of any length. I used the IKEA LACK wall shelves as the base to install shelves and then hid lights behind them. But rather than purchase a salvaged wood mantel on eBay (which I considered momentarily), I landed on a more imaginative solution. Using the IKEA LACK shelves, I created valance lighting for the bathroom. We ended up using 2×4 stock as the gap between units to make them look a little more substantial. Then we played around with spacing the other two shelves until it felt right. The living room fireplace seemed like a good place to start. The easy one to decide on was the centre bookshelf we centred it. The initial allure of a blank canvas soon faded, leaving us longing for the house’s lost soul. Hence, I needed 8 supports of 3 width for each cubby. The dividers are ¼ thick and the cubbies are 13¼ square. When my family and I moved into our rental house in Brighton, England, last December, we discovered a modern white box void of its original historical charm. This is the only part that requires you to pull out your tools Rip up the ½ plywood into supports for the dividers. Photography by Judith Achumba-Wöllenstein
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