Briliant Angled Bookshelves

Here is a great bookshelf for all you steampunk lovers out there. Its a huge wall shelf and its design is truly marvelous. The wooden shelves are combined via brass and copper pipes when a few valves and pressure gauges in between. This industrial pieces of art will not deserted sustain your books but along with amazingly liven going on your home.

UNBELIEVABLE ANGLED BOOKSHELVES

Have a bonus room that really needs some extra storage? Learn how to make your own DIY bonus room bookshelves and window bench that fits those angled walls.

When I re-decorated my home office in the bonus room, I added a lot of storage by making built-ins out of mismatched furniture . These DIY bonus room bookshelves and window bench were the final piece of that design.

One of the big projects that I completed during my recent home office makeover was the DIY bookshelves and window bench at the end of the room.

My office is in the bonus room over my garage (the only room on the second floor). Like a lot of bonus rooms, it has angled walls that can start about 5�?� up from the floor and can make furniture placement a bit tricky.

Bonus Room Shelves �?? Photo by Michael Abraham Architecture Note: This picture cannot be pinned due to houzz.com copyright restrictions. Since I needed storage and wanted some bookshelves, I figured my best bet was to make my own built-ins�?�something like these ones, but with more closed storage and a window bench.

However, I wasn�??t looking forward to building the shelves with all those angles! Fortunately, it turned out to be not as hard as I thought it would be�?�so just in case you�??ve been thinking of doing this and were put off by those angles�?�keep reading to learn how to make your own DIY bonus room bookshelves and window bench.

Martha Stewart craft cabinet Kitchen base cabinet Counter top * for the tops of the base cabinets. I did a DIY countertop project for this but you could also use store-bought counters.

4 �?? 3/4�?� x 4�?� x 8�?� MDF Boards, each cut into 9 �?? 18�?� x 96�?� strips, 1 �?? 20�?� x 96�?� strip (if your window bench is wider than 48�?�, you will need 2 20�?� strips). You can have these cuts made at the hardware store before you bring them home�?�which makes them easier to transport and means less cutting for you later!

2 �?? 2�?� x 4�?� x 8�?� Board Paint and primer for the shelves. 3�?� angle iron brackets and screws 1¼�?� wood screws 2½�?� wood screws Shelf Pins Compass Protractor Circular Saw Cordless drill Piece of pegboard Drill stop 18�?� Clamp Paintable Caulk Caulk gun As with most construction projects the first step to installing these DIY built-in bookshelves is some prep work. 1. To make the shelves fit flat against the wall, remove the baseboards from the wall where the shelves will go.

2. Move any electrical outlets to a position that you will still be able to get to after the shelves are installed.

3. Prime the wood and do the first coat of paint on the shelving wood before you put the shelves together. It is much easier to paint them now than it is once they are installed.

To add some closed storage on the bottom of the shelves, I used a  base kitchen cabinet * on one side and a Martha Stewart craft room cabinet on the other side.

They provide a lot of storage and take a lot of the work out of building the shelves. 1. Measure the space on either side of the window and get base cabinets that will fit. In my case, the space was 48�?� wide.

2. Move in the base cabinets and position them where you want them to go. 3. Install a counter top (if the cabinets don�??t already have one). If you want to make your own,  see our post on how to create built ins from mismatched furniture for the instructions on how to build it.

To make the shelves fit onto the wall, you will need to cut some of them with angled ends that match the angle of the wall.

The good news is that once you figure out what the angle is, all of the boards that need to be cut on the angle should use the same one. To make this easy, you�??ll need a couple of those tools that you used in geometry class�?�

1. To determine what the angle is, hold a compass up to the wall and move the arms so that they match the angle between the vertical wall and angled portion of the wall.

2. Line one of the hands up with the center mark of a protractor. 3. Look at what angle the other arm of the compass falls on. In my case it was 50°�?�so all of the boards that required angled ends had to be cut at a 50° angle.

Install the floor to ceiling vertical shelf boards on either side of the window. Install the top shelf across the vertical boards you just installed. Install the second vertical shelf support. Ignore all of the different colored pieces of wood in my pictures�?�I re-used a lot of these shelves from another shelving project that I had taken apart

Install the shelf support on the side wall. Install the shelf across the top of the angled wall. Install the middle shelf support(s). Finish the ends of the base cabinets. 1. Measure the width of each of the vertical sections in your shelving unit. 2. Decide how many shelves you want for each vertical shelving section. If you want the square cubby hole look, you will want the height of each space to be the same as the width of the shelves.

3. Cut the boards for the shelves. 4. Each vertical shelf section should have at least one fixed shelf. This helps to keep the uprights straight and sturdy. There are 2 ways you can install these fixed shelves:

a. Attach them to the side boards with screws that go through the side walls into the shelf board. For maximum strength, you�??ll need to put 3 screws on each side of the shelf (front, middle and back).

b. Use angle brackets that attach to both the side boards and the underside of the shelves. You�??ll need 4 of these, two on each side of the shelf (front and back).

5. For the rest of the shelves, you can drill holes and use shelf pins to position the shelves. If you know where you want the shelves to go, you can just drill the holes where you need them. If you want to have adjustable shelves, drill a row of holes. You�??ll need 4 holes per shelf, 2 on each side close to the front and the back of the shelf.

A couple of hints to make this process easier: 1. Measure the width of the space between your two shelving units. This will be the width of the bench. 2. Make a rectangular frame for the top of the bench out of 4 �?? 2�?� x 4�?� boards. 3. Make a support frame for the front of the bench out of 3 �?? 2�?� x 4�?� boards 4. Cut the top and front of the bench. 5. Install the top frame of the bench using your support frame to hold it in place. 6. Attach the bench front support 7. Screw the front board of the bench to all sides of the front frame. 8. If you are not worried about having storage in the bench, attach the bench top to the top of the frame on all sides. Note that the top should overhang the front by about 1�?�.

9. If you want to be able to store things in your bench, you can make the top lift up by doing the following:

There are a few more touches that will make the shelves look much more finished: 1. Add baseboards around the bottom of your shelving unit for a more built-in look. 2. Use caulk to fill in any gaps around the edges of the shelves and window bench (as well as any screw holes)

3. Give the whole unit one last coat of paint. Make sure to cover any angle brackets so that you can�??t see them too much.

4. If you are going to run electrical cords through your shelves, drill holes in the back of the shelves to let the cords through.

5. Fill up your shelves with books and accessories. 5. Add some cushions to your bench and you are done! The finished shelves provide lots of storage! Because they are on the end wall of a long narrow room, they help to make the room look less like a bowling alley.

I ended up adding the picture and mirror over the front of the shelves to give more hidden storage. They are on hinges so I can get to the shelves behind them very easily. You can find out how to hang art on shelves here

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