How To Make A Window Shelf For Plants

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How to make a window shelf for plants. Once you have the level mark for the bottom shelf you can measure up from there using the same distance between shelves as you did on the opposite side. To complete the windowframe plant shelves set a shelf on each pair of shelf supports and add plants. Continue to the next page for instructions on another way to display plants in a window. Use a leveled shelf lined up with your previous marks on the opposite side of the windowsill to create a level line along the depth of the windowsill.

Three shelves are generally adequate for the average window. Drill this one is my favourite brand to use. Align one shelf with the latch ledge above the windowsill and another at the midway point between the two. A quick touch up with white paint to the screw heads and the little boxes are virtually invisible.

Sawn kiln dried timber 19mm x 32mmmx 1 8m cut to size i buy my wood from wickes. Paint white and paint brush. Okay mostly just accidental bumps and adding pieces of wood to bring the brackets. Materials needed to make a window plant shelf.

A seriously easy fix that makes me my plants and my dog seriously happy. Then set shelves across the support brackets. The two main plant and window friendly modifications we made over just sticking some planks on some shelf brackets and calling it a day were adding a little ledge all around the shelf to keep the pots safe from accidental bumps rare georgia earthquakes etc. Secure the top of the frame with angle irons at the wall studs.

Glass shelves add a vertical dimension and thus draw the eyes upward. Start with the bottom shelf. Position the third shelf an equal distance above the latch ledge.