You can buy floating shelves in stores or online for $20 to $80 each. But before you do that, consider building your own. For ...

These contemporary-style shelves consist of rectangular boxes made of ¾-inch-thick hardwood-veneer plywood, such as birch or red oak plywood. The shelves can be built to virtually any dimension ...

If you make the shelves narrower (say, 12 inches), you’ll get more shelving from each sheet of plywood. You can also increase or decrease the bracket spacing.

Attach the top and bottom plywood shelves to their ledgers. The shelves must align vertically. Use temporary supports at the opposite side of the sheets to ensure they are level and true.

A Publix store in Metrowest was nearly sold out of water on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, as residents ready themselves ahead of Tropical Storm Ian, which is expected to make landfall in Florida as a ...

The cheap wood shelves I constructed are made from 2-by-3s and inexpensive half-inch-thick CDX plywood. I needed only two pieces of plywood and 13 2-by-3s in 8-foot lengths to make 256 cubic feet ...

Debbie Courtney of New Orleans balances a stack of tuna fish cans while grabbing an extra jug of water at Rouse's supermarket in Metairie Thursday. As Gustav circles the Gulf, trucks full of ...

A home improvement guru gives you some guidance on how to make new shelving for your home. Basic shelves are easy and inexpensive to construct using wood, plywood, or fiberboard cut to specific ...

We used a table saw to cut the plywood, a narrow-crown staple gun to attach the shelf backs and drawer bottoms, and an 18-gauge nailer to attach the face frames.