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 ...

In your DIYs, you may run into imperfect material from time to time. This can potentially be the case with plywood, where, ...

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.

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 ...

Basic shelves can be made from a variety of materials. If the shelves are going in a closet or utility area, such as a laundry or mudroom, 3/4-inch plywood or pine shelves can be sanded smooth and ...