How you can Construct Cheap DIY Wooden Image Ledges | Thrifty Decor Chick

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How you can construct lengthy wooden DIY image ledges in minutes.

These wooden image ledge cabinets could be custom-made to the size and width you want and are an effective way to show artwork and pictures!

When you do a whole lot of DIYing, you will have sufficient scrap wooden readily available to make these. If not, they are often made affordably with fundamental pine from the ironmongery store.

After we moved into this home, I knew instantly I wished to do one thing enjoyable on our staircase partitions. This mission particularly was on the wall underneath the steps:

It wanted one thing — and I imagined some easy show cabinets with images alongside this wall.

First I caught some painter’s tape to the wall to determine the sizes of every one and get an concept of how it will look.

I constructed three, 4 and 5 foot cabinets. I wished to go down low on the wall as a lot as attainable as a result of it simply felt proper visually to me.

These cabinets solely come out about 4 inches from the wall.

To construct these you will want three items of wooden — one 1×2 for the entrance, one 1×3 for the bottom, and one 1×4 for the again, all reduce to the size you need.

You may as well make the shelf with a 1×4 on the underside so it will be a bit deeper. I discovered the three inch to be superb however in the event you plan on leaning a bunch of frames I would go along with the 4 inch.

You may see what I imply right here:

Easy tutorial for DIY picture frame ledges

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I utilized wood glue earlier than the attaching the items collectively, nevertheless it’s not completely vital. Simply an additional precaution to verify they do not budge with the burden of the frames:

Listed here are the three steps to constructing these fast DIY cabinets:

You may see right here how they barely take up any house so far as the depth:

I marked the place the studs had been within the partitions after which simply screwed by way of the backs to hold them.

I wasn’t anxious in regards to the screws exhibiting as a result of I knew the frames would cowl them. If a pair present I am not anxious about it:

I received a number of new frames from HomeGoods and a few of these pretty metal frames from Target. I printed out random images from my cellphone on our printer at residence.

We completely LOVE the way it turned out. My husband and son each got here to me at totally different instances saying how a lot they favored it! When the boys discover you realize it is good! 😂

Cabinets with leaning images turned out to be an incredible in between — not too busy as a result of I stored the frames to the identical form and solely two colours. However it fills within the house superbly as a result of I went low and crammed the wall:

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It is good to get your images off the cellphone, proper? I am SO dangerous about that. I grabbed pics from latest journeys and random snapshots and I like each single one!

I particularly love how they comply with the angle of the steps. It simply makes it extra visually interesting:

We’ve got loads of house behind the sofas however this is able to additionally work nice someplace with much less room simply because they are not very deep in any respect.

I am so thrilled with them! I particularly love that they had been so cheap and fast. I made all three and had them hung in lower than an hour.

They might look nice painted black or white too.

I did not even take away the ledges, simply labored round them. 🙂

I spent $30-something on all three as a result of I went with choose pine (it would not have knots). When you used common pine and do not thoughts a bit of extra rustic look (or in the event you’re portray!) you’ll spend manner much less.