Easy DIY FLOATING SHELVES No bracket | DIY CREATORS

loading shelves can be a great way to

enhance and freshen up your space

and whether you're looking to add some

change to your bedroom or you're just

looking to give your bathroom

a quick facelift they can go a long way

but you don't have to stop there maybe

you also want a solution to keep your

gear

organized now what make this appealing

is for less than ten dollars you can

create

all three shelves without any hardware

stay tuned and i'm gonna show you

exactly how it's made

and before we continue here's a list of

things that you'll need

to build your shelves you'll need one

two inch by eight

inch by eight foot lumber you'll also

need a 36 inch oak dowel

and in many hardware store you can have

the lumber cut to size

but for those who have tools all you

need is a circular saw

a drill a sander and a half inch bit

now i want to cut this number down into

three equal parts but being that i have

a chip corner i'm going to mark and then

remove that first

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the final length of each board will be

just shy of 31 inches

and after mark in the area i'm gonna now

add a piece of support under the bottom

to catch the wood after it's cut

i also want to check the depth of my

blade so i don't go all the way through

the support so i'm going to lift the saw

up a bit just so it barely touches the

support

and using a speed square is a quick and

simple way to keep the saw straight as

you're ripping through the lumber

now repeat the same step two more times

and that'll get you three shelves

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next i'm using a three foot section of

half inch dowels and what i'm going to

do is mark

that to four inches and you should end

up with nine pieces

it's going to be three of these per

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shelf

now the next thing we want to do is mark

three location for the dowels i'm going

to mark the very middle and then

two inches from the outside on both

sides

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next you want to find the center point

of each line and put a mark

now i'm going to take a half inch bit

and then i'm going to put tape around it

and this is going to be setting the

depth of the dial

you can use a phillips screwdriver or an

owl to mark the point and this would

help

the bit to stay focused and not wander

off

now just repeat the same step for all

nine holes

and while this is clamped let's go ahead

and sand it down and clean up this area

now i do feel like it would be easier to

drill the hole first then cut the wood

because this way i know everything will

be lined up perfectly

i'm going to use the guide that came

with a circular saw and set it to make

an inch and a half cut

then lock it in place and of course if

you have a table saw this would be a

much easier process to tackle

and you can go ahead and rip that on

your table saw as well and with this

demonstration i'm showing with the

circular saw just want to be sure to

hold on with a circular saw with two

hands if need be

to try and control the saw so it doesn't

wander off

now it will be easy to get these mixed

up so what we want to do is mark

each one of them and also put marking

points so we know which side go where

and which pieces go with which piece

i use the half inch bit and also half

inch dowels

now this make it difficult for the dials

to slide in and out of the holes

so that's fine for the back part of the

shelf and we want to hammer that in

but for the front side of the shelf i'm

going to mark these and then

sand down this section here we need the

extended part of the dial to slide in

and out of the shells fairly easy

and the best way for me to sand this

down was to place one side in the chuck

of my drill and then i'll take sandpaper

and hold it alongside of the dowel

now you don't want to overdo it you just

want to make sure that the dowels slide

in and out of the hole easily

now just repeat the same process over

and over until all of them is done

now you can move on to sanding down all

the shells and you can also

round over the ends using a router or

you can use the sander

so right now i'm going to line up the

pieces i'm going to drop the dial pins

inside of them and i'm going to hammer

those down we want to lock them in place

at this point

you can use wood glue but i think

they're tight enough that we don't

really need it and as you can see here

the pins slide in and out of the shelf

just fine and that's really what i was

going for so just repeat the same steps

for the remaining shelves

the next thing i want to do is to lock

the shelf into place so what i'm going

to do is install a screw

right through the dial and into the wood

we do want this to be tight so put a

clamp at this area here

pre-drill and countersink the screw and

although you could add one at each dowel

section

i believe one in the middle would be

just fine so to prep the shelf to take

the stain i'm going to use one coat of

minwax pre-stain

conditioner for the viewers that aren't

really familiar with the pre-stain

conditioner what this does is to help

avoid any blotchiness from your stain

and after the conditioner dries i'm

going to lightly sand it down

and the next step will be adding the

stain

now there is a few ways to apply stain

my favorite technique is the wipe on

technique where you just apply it and

then you remove it with a rack

and i also like to use the minwax gel

stain

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the next step to finishing the shelf is

putting on a top coat and i'm going to

be using a spray-on polyurethane

now i usually add two to three layers of

top coat and sand lightly between

each one of them when it comes to the

polyurethane you can use the brush on

version the wipe on version or you can

just spray

now i do prefer to use a spray for a

project like this because it's less mess

and you don't have to worry about a

whole lot of cleanup

the first step to mounting the shelves

we want to add a few holes in the back

bracket and to do so

you want to level that then find the

stud in the wall

next make a mark on the back bracket and

on the wall

if you don't have a stud finder you

could use a screw-in wall anchor such as

these which is rated for 50

pounds each and to speed up the process

we're going to transfer the marking over

to the other two pieces of wood

then we're going to put some cross marks

on those and drill a hole there

now i just eyeballed this section here

but all you need to do is drill about

half inch in because we want the screw

to be able to go

through the wood and into the wall but

not interfere with the shelf itself

now you're going to place the wood over

the mark that you put on the wall

and screw into the stud and again if you

didn't have a stud finder you'll be

screwing these into a wall anchor

now align the shelves with the dial pin

and slide the shove into place

repeat the same process for the

remaining shelves and add the safety

screw

you could also use a piece of scrap wood

to help you space the shelves properly

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