Custom Floating Shelves Blog

Shop and buy wood floating shelves on customfloatingshelves.com Choose from 17 types of natural wood finished and unfinished professional grade wood floating shelves. Finished wood shelves are coated with our high quality conversion varnish Unfinished shelves are raw wood, sanded and ready for finishing. Unfinished maple, unfinished cherry, unfinished mahogany, unfinished walnut, unfinished teak, unfinished ash, unfinished red oak, unfinished rift white oak, unfinished bamboo, We are the professional’s source for premium quality wood floating shelves customfloatingshelves.com kitchen floating shelves Read More...

05 May

Cinco de Mayo facts all U.S. building professionals should know

Cinco de Mayo is a popular holiday celebrated in the United States and nearly every country worldwide except France. Cinco de Mayo is not a Mexican independence day. Like so many holidays, Cinco de Mayo has been heavily overshadowed by commercialization and misinformation. Cinco de Mayo is a Mexican holiday celebrating their military victory over the French on May 5, 1862, also known as El Día de la Batalla de Puebla. The victory was not a big strategic win for the Read More...

05 May

1 N Ken’s smashing Margarita recepie

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Our saw man, single N Ken has always talked a lot of big talk about making a proper margarita. He’s a Polish guy from New Jersey so what the heck does he know. But he claims because his wife is Peruvian.. uhh Peru’s not in Mexico mate. Well never mind all of that, couple years back my wife hosted a themed party so I asked for his recipe. These were so popular the guestes demanded I run back to the Read More...

27 Dec

Trimming shelves to fit into a corner or niche

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Shelves that will fit into a niche we build with open ends so these can attach to the walls on left and right with a wood cleat that attaches to the side walls. For shelves over 30″ the steel bracket supplements the support in the middle span. On shelves 30″ or less the steel bracket typically isn’t necessary so it’s a wood cleat on the back edge as well. In most cases the shelves must be scribe cut to Read More...

13 Aug

21 ideas for floating shelves

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19 Mar

shelves with lip or groove for display ledge

In order to display books, artwork, or china its best to have either a groove or a small lip to help keep things upright. We can cut a 1/2″ wide by 1/4″ deep V-groove for $25 per shelf. To add a ¼” X ¼” lip we can do for $40 per shelf. The lip has to be at least 1/4″set back from the front edge. In either case we will need a simple dimensioned sketch showing the location so we can get it Read More...

26 Feb

which primer to use on MDF shelves?

At the shop we use a catalyzed primer that must be applied with specialized spray equipment in a ventilated booth with fire suppression. If I wind up painting something at home though, here are my two top choices for primer, both available at most any hardware: For smooth surfaces at home #1 is Zinsser Bin white pigmented shellac primer. It sticks to about anything, can be topcoated with anything, excellent for sealing tannin from bleeding into the paint, and it dries really Read More...

20 Feb

Floating shelf recessed lighting

We don’t sell lighting though we will prepare your shelves either for puck lights or LED strips. Holes for pucks are $20 per hole. Most pucks will fit a 2-1/4” hole, some require a different size, please be sure to specify the correct size holes we need to drill. stainless steel floating shelf with recessed LED lights floating shelf with recessed LED strip light We also offer a routed channel with a diffuser lens that we will flush mount into your shelves, $35 each shelf. Our channel will fit Read More...

04 Feb

floating shelf installation on masonry wall