Design of a corner shelving unit - ideas & suggestions welcomed

[danlightbulb]

Hi all,

Currently decorating my small bedroom/home office and in the below corner I want to make a set of shelves primarily for books, folders etc.

The wall on the left is brick but the wall on the right is stud and I can't detect any solid timber in the middle of it unfortunately, so Im a little concerned on how I fix strongly to that part of the wall.

The dimension of the left side is circa 600mm and the right side to the door frame is circa 850mm.

I can see initially a few options:

1. Try and find something pre-made that would fit in the corner, free standing (i.e the Ikea Billy bookcase).
2. Self make a cabinet (free standing) out of pine or MDF.
3. Rather than a cabinet, simply install a number of shelves affixed directly to the walls at 90 degrees to each other.

Anyone have any thoughts please?

Thanks
Dan

 

[dirtychinchilla]

I would do 3. Attach it primarily to the brick wall and then put some sort of secondary fixings for the plasterboard i.e. super attached it to brick, and the nhope it doesn't fall down.

 

[thezappa]

option 3
You could use heavy heavy duty brackets which are long enough to give support to a shelf running along the wall toward the door, with the bracket itself attached to the masonry wall.
For info I got these for our office although I have bought additional brackets as the ones it came with were tiny.