How To Make Wall Mounted Shelves. Come to think of it, billy was not wide enough to hold books. Before installing wall mounted shelves, it is a good idea to use cardboard shelves to give an idea of what the finished project will look like.
The beauty of this is you can make them with no hardware. If the shelf will be holding a heavy load, use three standards, spacing them 16 inches apart. The shelf is either secured to the brackets or just rests on top of them.
It would have been a lot easier had we been able to just do one big unit without the fireplace, but we wanted to make each.
The interesting part is that when you watch norm abrams or bob villa doing complicated projects. Here is the cubby storage shelf mounted to the wall The shelf also measures 12 deep giving you a substantial storage space. Ikea used to make a wall mounted shelf in the billy series.