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Installing the shelves
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Now it’s time to determine where your brackets should go.
Ideally, you’ll want to anchor at least one bracket into a stud, of
course. To look for studs, use a stud seeker (available at any hardware
store), or rap along the wall until you hear the sound change from a
hollow echo-ey sound to a dull thud. That having been said, it’s
entirely possible that you won’t be able to find a stud under the area
where shelf has to go: what will probably happen is that you’ll
discover that the only stud will be in the corner (studs are
commonly found every 18" … which means once you’ve found one
under your 12" board, you’re unlikely to find a second that you
can use). At any rate, in the event that you find yourself lacking a
stud, never fear: you can basically put your brackets anywhere under
that line you’ve drawn on the wall, as long as they: 1) aren’t too
close to the corner (you won’t get good support); 2) don’t overlap Hold a bracket to the wall, with one arm of the bracket (the longer one) pressed against the wall and pointing towards the floor while the second arm juts out from the wall, level with the placement line that you drew earlier. Mark the bracket’s placement by penciling a dot in each of its screw holes. Continue with the remaining brackets. keep going ... the instructions continue this way ---------------------------> lounge . nourish . host . laze . home.
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Once
you’ve adjusted the shelf so that it’s in just the right place, mark
where the bottom of the shelf hits the wall, using a pencil. Note: it’s
entirely likely that the shelf will not fit perfectly tightly into the
corner … unless you’ve got a very poorly constructed set of walls,
or you’ve done a truly slipshod job of cutting your board, you should
be able to have one edge of the shelf flush against the wall,
and the second sticking out just slightly. Trust me: it’ll look fine
in the end.
with one another. A good rule of thumb is to position your brackets
approximately 2/3 of the length of the board, as measured from the
corner.