How to build floating kitchen shelves with pipe

What you’ll need

To build floating shelves with a “black iron” finish, you’ll need:

Wood: Hammarp solid beech countertop from Ikea. You can also get plain whiteboard at Home Depot.

1/2″ Flanges

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The pieces that connect pipe to wood.

Nipple pipe pieces

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The short pipe pieces between the flanges and elbows. Get the sizes for your project; this used 2.5″ and 12″.

90 degree elbows

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The joints.

Drywall Anchors

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50 pound anchors should be sufficient since you’ll use multiple; the shelves aren’t that large that you’d hang that much combined weight.

Wipe-on polyurethane

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For the wood finish

Design

The wood is 1″ thick, and the depth is 6″. The outer middle shelves are 28″ long and the center ones are 37″ long. The wood is cut, sanded, and coated with 3 coats of polyurethane.

Piecing everything together is pretty self-explanatory. We tried to hit studs, but it’s sturdy with drywall anchors, and we don’t plan on putting anything too heavy on the shelves.

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Cost

~$140 from Home Depot minus the wood, which was left over from our islands.

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