floating shelves

Zip-a-dee-doo-dah

zip-a-dee-ay

my oh my what a wonderful day !!!

This is my happy song because I now have two floating shelves in the living-room.

I actually imagined these about 5 years ago, when I moved in with my dear old geezer.

Before blogging, before considering stencilling the walls, I wanted these shelves.

This is the before. This is basically what we looked at for about five years !

And now - after selling our cafe and having more time,

being given a laptop,

discovering blogs on interiors,

following inspirational people,

we have this -

The stencilled alcoves, that I wrote about here with a floating shelf in each

(painted white of course).

To put up these shelves I basically marked a line on the wall with a level.

Drilled six holes for each shelf and put in 4inch screws.

I chiselled out notches on the underside of each piece of wood, in line with

the screw. See below.

Then I filled the holes and painted the shelves with two coats of emulsion.

Apart from the first one, I drilled ALL the holes, with the dreaded HAMMER DRILL.

I needed help putting the screws in ( I need to build more muscle).

The chiselling out was actually fun, I quite enjoyed that bit.

For my 'impossible challenge I need repeat this 10 times in the dining room.

I HAVE to do it all myself.

And I have to have it done by 31st January.

WISH ME LUCK !!!

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zip-a-dee-doo-dah.................................

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