Unfortunately, Darrell took some initiative and built these shelves one morning while I was working so I don't have any pictures of the process, but from what I understand it was pretty simple. Let me refresh for you what they look like before I explain what he did.
The shelf is actually made up of three separate pieces: the base, the lip on the front, and a mounting piece on the back. Since he kept the lip on the front pretty small he was able to split one piece of wood and use it for the lip on both shelves, and then secured it with small finishing nails. He then created the same lip on the back of the base using another piece of wood, but left the extra material hanging below the shelf to serve as the anchor (I apologize that it's really hard to see that, but trust me, there is some material hanging below the shelf which mounts it into the wall). We fully anticipate our child using these shelves to pull himself/herself up, so Darrell made sure to secure the screws into studs (and trust me--those suckers aren't going anywhere).
What I love most about this project is that we were able to customize the depth of the shelves. All the pre-built shelves we found were around three inches deep, and I really didn't want our bookshelves to stick out that far from the wall. Trusty Menards had plenty of small wood pieces (I believe we purchased cedar, but I could be mistaken) of varying widths, so we were able to find one that was closer to an inch--plenty deep for supporting a children's book or two. Plus the wood we bought was already finished so we didn't have to worry about doing any sanding--just slapped a few coats of paint on the shelves after they were built and we were done! Love them!
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| If you enlarge this image, you can see the anchor piece underneath the top shelf a little more clearly |
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