DIY Shelves

I created myself a little challenge. My goal was to make simple and elegant shelves for my office using only a minimal amount of materials readily found around my workplace. I strove to use a minimum amount of tools and to complete this task as quickly as possible.

From start to finish this took precisely 96:09 minutes. I arrived at that number because that is the combined length of the Flaming Lips' album Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Bob Dylan's infamous, The Times They are a-Changin' and the first song off of Elliott Smith's album Figure 8.

The only materials I used were two pre-cut acrylic sheets, a thin extruded aluminum bar, decorative ribbon, wool yarn and four wood screws. The tools that were used include a hacksaw, a pair of scissors, a screwdriver, a ladder and two office chairs.

Follows is what I did and how I did it.

Step 1 Problem Solving

Identify where you need shelves. In my case, I was standing around after work thinking about how I would like to get some of the junk off my shelf and realizing I had no shelving in my office. I resolves to build shelves in my office. Since I figured there was very little in the way of construction material lying around, I resolved to hang them from the ceiling.

Comments

[jstrife]

What about hi test fishing line to hang the shelves? Probably as strong as yarn, and from far it's invisible.

[Lithium Rain]

I spy with my little eye a book with Robot on it!! It is not the official book; can you tell me what it is?

[randofo]

It's a missing poster from when zombies ran off with our robot.

[mynameisjonas]

this is great! perhaps if you used some heavy duty rope, and a bracket this could serve as a workbench

[ttikmai]

They look pretty sweet but I'm not sure they would hold up well with heavier objects, I would say if you had to do it again, or fix them, buy some nylon rope and just cut it to fit and melt the ends to prevent fraying. Overall this is a sweet cheap DIY to solve clutter problems.

[randofo]

Indeed. I searched all over for rope, but the music was playing and I figured I should just get them up. They have been there for a while now and I often look at them and consider making them practical, but I have yet to build up the motivation.