![]() The specified DIY floating shelf brackets are 6.6” long and hold as much as 20 lbs per bracket. Your shelves can be whatever length and depth best fits your space and holds the desired items. Our floating shelf design here is for a 45″ by 7.5” wide shelf. Overall, do a little hunting to find the perfect wood slab for you and find a local source, if possible. You can definitely go thicker up to 2” or so, just consider the extra weight. This is the skinniest you’ll want to go otherwise the brackets won’t have enough wood to support on each side. We purchased a 16” x 96” wood slab of beautiful elm to plane and cut ourselves. We love a good DIY (and the money it saves us!), so these instructions show how to take a full wood slab and do all the work yourself. Our favorite part was all the wood slabs from the company have labels with who and where they got the wood slab from. However, we’ve already made our own live edge wood table with metal legs. They’ll also do all the planing and cutting for you, and even make full custom tables (obviously at a price). In Kansas City, we found Urban Lumber Company, who supplies sustainably harvested tree slabs from the metro area. We specifically wanted to find a company that sustainably harvested their trees, and we could go pick the perfect wood slab. We did a quick internet search for lumberyards and places selling reclaimed lumber. Sourcing a live edge wood slab can be either easy or difficult depending on where you live. Just ensure your floating shelf design accounts for the sizes you have. However, you can totally make DIY floating shelves from whatever slabs you have available. We also wanted just under 4 feet in length, so we needed an 8 foot slab to cut in half as well. We knew we wanted 7.5” wide shelves, so that meant a minimum of a 15” wide wood slab. Because live edge wood can be pricey, we wanted to have a slab we could cut in half and use both sides. It’s best to know your desired shelf depth and length prior to buying the live edge wood slab. Oak, Cherry, and Walnut also make gorgeous shelves.Ours was 16” wide x 96” long Elm slab 5/4” thick.1 or 2 sets of DIY floating shelves brackets (dependent on number of shelves & wall studs). ![]()
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