Stay tuned to see how I decorate these floating shelves in our living room. I love shelf styling, so this is going to be so fun! Shelf Size - Ikea LACK / Shelf Headphone Holder / Headphone Storage. I can’t wait to decorate these floating shelves! I have so much room to add pictures, art, and other decorative objects. After scouring the internet for a way to decrease the wobbling of the Lack shelf, I finally read that wrapping the arms of the bracket with a few layers of duct tape helps and it DID. Rustic Floating Shelf - Custom sizes available - Please get in touch with your. I love how they add lots of interest but they still have a light feeling and don’t overwhelm the space. These shelves make this wall look so much more complete. We now have beautiful, floating shelves in our living room. Once the shelves were attached together, we were done. And once I decorate the shelves, it will be even less noticeable. They aren’t perfect, but it’s barely noticeable. We made sure to use a level to get the shelves to match up as close as possible. To match up the two shelves and get rid of the uneven gap, we tightened mending plates down using screws. We attached the mending plates evenly spaced on the upper shelves. You can’t really see anything from the ground so no one would notice the plates. On the upper shelf, it wasn’t as big of a deal, because that shelf is so high up on the wall. That way, you wouldn’t be able to see the plate. On the lower shelf, we installed the mending plates toward the back of the shelves against the wall. To make the shelves look like one complete piece, we attached them together using a few mending plates. Once the shelves were installed, you could tell where the gap was between the two different sizes.
#Ikea lack shelf spacing install#
To attach the shelves to the wall, you first install a metal bracket.Īfter it’s securely attached to the wall, the shelf just slips over the bracket and you attach the two pieces together with some screws along the back of the shelf. We attached the smaller shelf first on the left side. This allowed us to mark off the floating shelves locations using a pencil.Īfter the locations we marked, we installed each shelf. Then, we adjusted it to create a level line on the media center wall. We've got a couple of the Lacks now set up this way, the mid-length Lacks, two of them have nothing but hard-back books on them, almost to the ends of the shelves, and they've been fine.We attached the level to the wall on the opposite side of the room. They'll still support the shelf, the wall anchors take very little "strain" because all they're doing is keeping the shelf from sliding away from the wall. Now, what I did in my home with the Lack shelves, where I was concerned I'd put too much weight on them, is I still screwed the mounting bracket for the shelf into the wall (using anchors for the drywall,) then put shelf brackets like you're looking at (the "metal corners") underneath the Lack snug up against the bottom, but not actually attached to the shelf. In the US (my locale) such anchors are typically a soft metal that you hammer into your hole then drive the screw into. But second, they're probably also not the correct type of anchor for use in brick / concrete.
Sounds like you might be having a couple issues.įirst, as u/No-Photograph3463 stated, your wall anchors (the plastic things) are probably too small for the hole.
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