Context: I live in a studio apartment and do not have much counter or shelf space. My nail polish baggy was getting too full and thought since I do have extra wall space and a small gallery wall already I can hide a thin shelf behind a picture frame in my gallery wall.
Luckily there is a craft store near me where they can cut small peices of wood to size for me, so I made up a diagram of a shelf that could fit behind a large picture frame I had before I asked for some plywood peices to get cut. Diagram and dimentions in the link. I still have the can of paint I used to paint my walls so I painted the shelf to match the walls.
I am so happy with the final out come and that I managed to make this myself, with some assistant to hold it in place while I drilled it into the wall. Nailing and glueing the shelf tested my patience but the worst was trying to get the hinges skrewed in correctly so the picture frame closes well. I still need to get a small clasp or magnet to hold it closed.
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Context: I live in a studio apartment and do not have much counter or shelf space. My nail polish baggy was getting too full and thought since I do have extra wall space and a small gallery wall already I can hide a thin shelf behind a picture frame in my gallery wall.
Luckily there is a craft store near me where they can cut small peices of wood to size for me, so I made up a diagram of a shelf that could fit behind a large picture frame I had before I asked for some plywood peices to get cut. Diagram and dimentions in the link. I still have the can of paint I used to paint my walls so I painted the shelf to match the walls.
I am so happy with the final out come and that I managed to make this myself, with some assistant to hold it in place while I drilled it into the wall. Nailing and glueing the shelf tested my patience but the worst was trying to get the hinges skrewed in correctly so the picture frame closes well. I still need to get a small clasp or magnet to hold it closed.