Incorporate new style to your diy pipe shelves by building shelves with live edge wood slabs featuring wood grains knots wormholes bark and at least one natural edge of the wood.
Diy live edge wood shelves. Remaining sides are milled down to straight edges or planes. A great woodworking project to use free lumber for a rustic floating shelf in your home. This bench is rich in color and would look stunning in the entryway of your home in your living room or even in a hallway. You need to find the studs on the wall where you ll be hanging the shelf.
The wood is live edge alder that we picked out and had finished at salvage works they were great to work with and did a wonderful job. How to make live edge wood shelves materials. Instructions clean up the live edge of the board with sandpaper if necessary. Next it s time for the wall drilling.
Once you ve chosen appropriate wood if it has a live edge on both sides you ll need to cut it. Apply finish to the live edge floating. In this video i take a rough live edge piece of maple and turn it into an easy to make beautiful live edge shelf best part is. Add a few pillows to brighten up the space.
Live edge wood shelves are easy to make and can be done in a number of different ways. Wood stain we used used pecan stain from minwax but you can also try. Find the studs in your walls and mark them with a pencil. How to make a diy live edge floating shelf with invisible hardware.
Live edge is a popular style that incorporates at least one natural edge or plane of the wood s surface. Remove the bark from the front of the shelves. Buy the right floating shelf hardware for the width of your live edge board. Going live edge will rock to prettify any room elegance with a little hot mix of wood rusticity.
Coming at you today with some live edge wood shelves that have really changed the look of our bar space. Mark and drill the hole for the floating shelf hardware post into the side of the live edge board. Diy live edge wood furniture. Wormholes bark wood grain and all.
I used three per shelf attached to studs in the wall and they seem like they ll be plenty sturdy. To hang these live edge floating shelves we used these dolle strongfix floating shelf brackets. Diy live edge wood slabs projects. Get your home featured with the.
If your wood slab has. Natural live edge wood works in pretty much any decor style and we love using all types of wood in our home.