I think that's SO cool. It's a stud-mounted L-bracket shelf, but you buried the brackets inside the wall and inside the shelf. Whoa! Super neat!

I think your idea to alternate the up/down bracket supports is so obvious but I'd have never considered it! Great job!

Floating shelves look so much cleaner and open up a kitchen--love the look!

Love love love this idea! I've seen people take sawdust from when you cut the wood and mix it with wood glue for the seam where the 2 pieces meet.

HGTV should be embarrassed that this content is 10X better than anything on their channel. Bravo Melissa!

Great work Melissa - you should be super proud of yet another job well done 👏👏👏

An amazing project! Great clean design. You used a unique method for anchoring the brackets to the wall, definitely strong. Great job, keep the videos coming.

Excellent job! I AM a professional carpenter and I glean new ideas from various channels all the time. I build floating shelves quite often and each set is different with different challenges and solutions. I like using strong angle brackets when I can, which I recently used on a closet perimeter shelf of 3/4" MDF. The "L" intersection is always a dilemma because of two support dimensions. If I use solid wood, such as I did out of butcher block a couple weeks ago, I sink 1/2" lag screws into a few of the studs and cut the heads off and carefully drill 9/16" holes into the wood and slide them into the holes with some construction glue along the shank. Since you left the bottom off, I might suggest that the top pieces could be biscuit joiner and glued at the intersection and all places on the brackets as a single piece. Then the complete bottom unit could be joined the same way and brought up as a single piece and clamped and attached like you did, but you'd need a helper. Then glue in the face segments. I would suggest that you try a 23ga pin nailer for that, rather than a brad nailer, and you'll never see any holes, especially because you stained it rather than painted it. Great suggestion on the maple plywood vs maple boards! I have to make maple floating shelves for a job next week and I'm going to steal your idea to lower the cost for the client 🙂

I appreciate the narration of your thought process!

This is a fantastic idea! It combines form, function, and class! I love it!

Nice job Melissa. Keep up the good, rewarding work!

No kidding, this is one of the most professionally designed and executed DIY's I've seen. I'm quite impressed, and I have worked in multiple trades for decades, around some amaizingly skilled folks.b great job, and they look awesome!

Great job those look really nice ! It's nice to see a different way to do them. Love the smile after you check your work too !

Brilliant job. I especially like the sponge/sanding tip.

For sealing those corners instead of using the screwdriver method try mixing some of that sawdust you generated with regular wood glue. Push the mixture into the cracks with your fingers, let it dry then lightly sand. You can still stain to match and you'll have seamless corners.

Great job, that will be extremely strong! I install floating shelves quite a bit, and have found the hardwood dowel or metal rod method to be my favourite. In any scenario where the shelf is connected to two surfaces, like in the corner, if your shelf is hollow you can get unlimited strength out of just screwing thin wood cleeting strips to both surfaces. But on an open section of wall where the shelf is fully floating, I get 1 inch maple dowel and use a laser to shine down the side of a 18” long 1” auger bit to make sure I drill a perfectly level hole in to each stud about 3” deep. If you can hold the drill level while drilling nicely, the dowel will hammer in so firm you won’t be able to pull it out. And the shelf will be strong enough to climb like a ladder and will never sag. A few upsides to this method is there’s no need for metal or drywall repair. And you can hammer in the dowel, and then just slide your shelf over and fire 1-2 brad nails through it in to one of the dowels. So you can have 100% of the up/down support strength, and still be able to remove it all from the wall if you really want to pull it apart, without destroying the shelf or the wall. To anyone wanting to try this method, I’d simply suggest practicing drilling with the laser in a piece of scrap. In 4-5 tries holes, you should be confident you can drill smooth and level And if you really want to give yourself the best chance, I recommend the 3 blade Wood Owl brand nail chipper drill bit. Its not cheap but drills the smoothest without wobbling in the hole as you drill. Good luck.

I must say first time watcher and I'm liking your out-o-box thinking. Definitely going to be watching more, thank you for the great ideas!

really innovative way to build floating shelves and your work is quite nice! Congrats on a job well done!

Melissa - You did a fantastic job with the shelf project! You continue to amaze your fans with the projects! I hope your family is well! Thank you!!

very nice; i have done that for years and loved it glad you got it out there for others i never was able never had technology like this back then ,great job !

Nice job. Using recessed brackets had been on my mind for a while now but I'd never worked with drywall so I was hesitant. Seeing your installation really helped me assess feasibility - so thanks! Also worth checking out: angle brackets that attach to studs for floating desks (the same brackets carpenters use for installing floating vanities). Keith Johnson did a video on it with some really nice results. @10:52 Yup. To remove it, you'd have to use an oscillating tool to cut a hole where you've screwed the bracket to the shelf, which isn't terrible. @14:09 I'd cut a mating 45deg bevel on the long shelf and use my festool domino on the bevel joint for alignment. @10:19 you left the right face of the long shelf square, which butts against a triangular-prismic gap. You could have cut a 45deg triangular strip, glued/pinned that to the shelf with the 45deg bevel and that would give you a square face to scribe against. The gap makes it difficult to fill with wood filler. IMO, it'd be easier to do a miter joint for the L connection of the shelves; you can still keep the bevels. See kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gt6Fmbx-rZnRm6M.html @3:09 Every DIY project you do on your home, take a video recording/pictures of what you've done. Give that to the next homeowner.

The hidden brackets and staggering was super clever. Looks stronger than other floating designs

Outstanding job!

Very creative and innovative approach to this project. And the finished product looks great!

Love the idea of the sponge

I have never thought to recess the bracket into the drywall! Terrific work.

Pretty slick shelves. I'll remember this method because it's about the best one I know of. I'm not a carpenter but I do some carpentry work at home.

Wow, your work is really beautiful! Thank you for the tutorial!

This is the best way. Good job. This is how I have always done floating shelves. I have even hung huge beams for a massive fireplace mantle, just bigger angle iron. Again, great job. 👍

You could probably get really thin by routing out the top plywood for the brackets, no spacers, and and use 1/4" plywood as a veneer for the bottom. Good idea on alternating the brackets. As the brackets deflect, they would theoretically rotate somewhat, and by alternating, the rotation is cancelled out. For the seams and gaps, don't stain until it's fully installed. Seal all the gaps with sawdust and glue. This also lets you give a slight bevel to the sharp corners before staining, then stain all at once with perfectly uniform coats.

Perfil the holes with quickset mud and then use mesh tape and final coats. This is a very cool blind shelf hanger method. I hope to get a chance to do this soon.

The author does like to from scratch, kzfaq.infoUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.

Melissa, you did a fantastic job on the shelves. They look like a professional carpenter installed them. I really like your videos because you do 'voice-overs' as opposed to other channels where people try to talk over engine or saw noise. Blessings to you and your family.

Great job! You always do innovative projects!

Nicely done!

A friend of mine has a saying that applies here. “ A job well planned is half finished. “. You did a nice job, Melissa.

Love it. Great solution instead of peeling all drywall back. I use magnets on my new old house too, to find drywall nails and studs. All The pros mount steel brackets and supports directly to studs, for strength.

The way you cut the drywall out for the bracket was pretty fancy. Nicely done.

Wow, nice looking floating shelves!

those are some nice shelves! love your heavy duty bracket idea

The shelves are beautiful!

Turned out great! Caulk is a great choice to fill those gaps. Also, Im not sure if you finished the bottom of the shelves, but consider some water proofing the drywall and shelf around the sink!

I Love This! I can't wait to build my own shelves now.

Oh yeah that bench is the bomb!!

This is probably the best floating shelves video I've watched!! Thanks!! Liked and subscribed!

Brilliant, great job!

Brilliant Design!

Very clever and well done job. It looks really nice!

I really enjoy your channel! Thank you!

Love your channel and I get great tips and techniques from you, thank you for showing your skill and talent

Very talented. Well done. You make it look so easy.

This is awesome! Studio idea. Thank you

Awesome Work!!

Turned out real nice

Best floating shelf solution!

What a great idea!

Nice job, the kitchen looks great. Very well done! I´ve got a bunch of new ideas to my own flaotaing shelves, for my plastic models (a lot less weight). My walls are solid, however the recessed brakets is a very cool trick. Thanks for sharing.

I am going to be hanging some shelving of solid wood and the brackets you found will be perfect. Thanks

You GO Girl!

Good job. Well thought out.

Pretty dang nice!

Great idea, i was thinking of doing something like this to sit my rear surround speakers on, maybe even a hidden draw to put remotes.

You have a practical approach to everything that you do. It's truly remarkable. My DIY days are mostly in the past, now. But, it's fun to imagine... You're an inspiration!

Love the idea of recessing the brackets into the wall!! Great job!

What an interesting approach to this project. Really impressive and an enjoyable video.

Amazing idea!

great work!

I just purchased one of those oscillating tools (Milwaukee M18). Amazing. Best $100 I have spent in the past six months. Did a dry wall cut and repair and a cedar siding repair (damn woodpeckers). Made the repair easier and seamless and clean initial cut. Highly recommend the tool.

You did such a neat great job on the shelves

Man, beautiful, smart, handy...your man is super lucky. Great work!!!

Nice work. Good ideas.

Those shelves look amazing great job your a very good wood worker dear ,

Great job👍🏻

Nice work!

Brilliant ❤

Great job Melissa, you commended about the brackets a set of prints to scale on your projects would be nice for future reference❤

#1. Build the shelves completely with glue and brad nails, clamps and tape. Install a ledger with brackets on the wall. Scribe the shelves to the wall and to any obstacle. Cut miters at 45.5° so you dont get any gaps in the miters.

Brilliant!

Mel, Damn. That's a smart idea. Thank you.

Really clever engineering. I think I may try this.

Expanding foam (scraped flush when dry) and then fiber tape over it to fill those holes in the sheet rock would work as well. One quick tip for butting two pieces of wood together is to pre-fit them where they are going to go and then scribe a cut line from one piece to the other so that the joints are always as perfect as possible. Sometimes walls aren't exactly 90 degrees on the horizontal or the vertical (specially in old house remodels)

You are amazing. Thanks for the videos.

Awesome !!

Great work

absolutely beautiful, cabinets too :)

Dang, that workbench is pretty awesome!

Lovely video ❤

that 5-in-1 workbench looks AWESOME

Amazing job! Couldn’t have done better myself.

Very calming voice! Great work!

Pure brilliance! And looks awesome👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 for the gap, mix wood flue with that e saw dust from your cuts use it to fill cracks sand and stain😃

this is awesome

Inspiring!

Thanks!

Nice job 👍

Great project! I agree with Shane Seecharan... Saw dust and wood glue should provide a nice match and fill

I may have made the shelves as individual units and then fixed them in position. Making sure there was tolerance for scribing. Those mitres are also hard to get perfect when done in situ. Might have opted for less wide but thicker brackets so I didn't cut away the whole plasterboard to the width of the timber. Liked the up and down brackets, that made sense!

Great job Melissa as always 👍😎🐕‍🦺

Girl you are awesome

nice work