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01.22.2001

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corner SHELVES
 
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Installing the shelves
6. Determine where you’ll want your shelves to go on the wall. This is where it’ll help to have a friend helping you. While you’re up there holding the shelf in place against the wall, get your pal to step back and check to make sure that you’ve got the board basically level. You can use a level if you’re so inclined – or if you’re trying to do this project solo – but it isn’t necessary … corner shelves, because they’re so short, tend not to show slight slants quite as much as a normal, long shelf might. 

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.

7. 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 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.

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.

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